Silkwave Voice
Silkwave Voice is a privacy-focused audio recording and transcription app for macOS. Record from your microphone, system audio, or both at once - with accurate, real-time transcription powered by Apple's on-device speech-to-text models. No cloud uploads, no subscriptions, no per-minute API costs.
RECORD ANY AUDIO SOURCE
• Microphone - voice notes, in-person meetings, dictation
• System Audio - Zoom, Google Meet, Teams, YouTube, browser tabs
• Both at once - capture your mic and remote participants simultaneously
ON-DEVICE TRANSCRIPTION
• Real-time speech-to-text using Apple's on-device models
• 10 languages: Cantonese, Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish
• Completely local - no internet connection needed
AI-POWERED SUMMARIES
• Structured summaries with key topics, action items, and decisions
• Powered by ChatGPT through Apple Intelligence - no API keys needed
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QuickWhisper
QuickWhisper is a macOS application for transcription, dictation, and AI summarization using OpenAI's Whisper model. It runs entirely on-device with no cloud dependency required.
The application transcribes audio from local files, YouTube videos, online meetings, and system audio. QuickWhisper can record meetings with calendar integration while keeping the recording interface hidden during screen sharing.
System-wide dictation works across all macOS applications, replacing keyboard input with voice. All transcription runs on your Mac.
AI summarization is available through cloud providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, xAI, Mistral, Groq) or on-device via Ollama and LM Studio.
QuickWhisper also includes batch transcription, Watch Folders for automatic background transcription, speaker diarization, Apple Shortcuts integration, and webhooks for third-party service integration.
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BlaBlaScribe
BlaBlaScribe turns recordings into text you can actually use. Upload an audio or video file — or paste a link from YouTube, Vimeo, SoundCloud, Google Drive, Dropbox or OneDrive — and get an accurate, time-coded transcript with automatic speaker labels in 120+ languages.
From one recording you get everything you need:
Transcripts with speakers and timestamps, searchable like a document
Subtitles for YouTube, Reels, TikTok and online courses — edit timing and style in the browser, export SRT/VTT or burn them into the video
Translations of transcripts and subtitles into 50+ languages, keeping the original timing
AI summaries, key points and show notes for long episodes and meetings
Export to SRT, VTT, TXT, DOCX, PDF, CSV, XLSX and JSON
BlaBlaScribe is built for podcasters, video creators, journalists, researchers, educators and marketing teams. Files are encrypted, processed on the company's own servers in the EU (Germany), never sent to third-party AI providers.
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Fireflies.ai
Fireflies is an AI voice assistant that helps transcribe, take notes, and complete actions during meetings. Our AI assistant, Fred, integrates with all the leading web-conferencing platforms in the world like Zoom, Google Meet, Webex, & Microsoft Teams along with business applications like Slack and Salesforce.
Record: Instantly record meetings across all major web-conferencing platforms. Invite Fireflies or have it automatically capture them.
Transcribe: Fireflies can transcribe live meetings or audio files that you upload. Skim the transcripts & listen to the audio simultaneously.
Collaborate: Add comments & flag important moments on calls for teammates to easily review.
Search: Review an hour long call in less than 5 minutes. Filter to action items, dates, metrics, and other important topics.
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