Amical
Amical is an open source, AI-powered desktop dictation and note-taking application that enables users to dictate hands-free, transcribe meetings, and capture notes effortlessly with unmatched speed, accuracy, and privacy. It leverages both local and cloud-based AI models, letting users seamlessly switch between providers for the ideal balance of speed, precision, and control, and understands the context of each app in use to automatically format text in a tone and style appropriate to the platform. Users can enhance transcription accuracy with custom vocabulary tailored to industry jargon, proper nouns, and personal terms, and set up personalized voice shortcuts to trigger workflows or dictate across applications. Amical supports multilingual dictation with over 50 languages at native-level accuracy. Its features include a floating desktop widget for easy access, voice-activated commands, custom hotkeys, transcription history, and more.
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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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Otter.ai
Otter is where conversations live. Generate rich notes for meetings, interviews, lectures, and other important voice conversations with Otter, your AI-powered assistant. Organizations who have the Otter advantage. Teams big and small trust Otter to transcribe their important conversations. Our shiny new release, Otter 2.0, adds more functionality to improve collaboration and productivity. The Teams plan includes capabilities designed especially for small and medium businesses and teams in larger enterprises. Record and review in real time. Search, play, edit, organize, and share your conversations from any device. Record conversations using Otter on your phone or web browser. Import or sync recordings from other services. Integrate with Zoom. Get real-time streaming transcripts and, within minutes, rich, searchable notes with text, audio, images, speaker ID, and key phrases. Share or export voice notes to inform others and get on the same page.
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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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