INDEED.
Also, PSA to fellow reporters: If you want fast transcription and don't want any recordings housed on the internet (or don't want to rely on transcription that engages with the internet at all), I highly recommend offline apps such as MacWhisper, etc.
Also, PSA to fellow reporters: If you want fast transcription and don't want any recordings housed on the internet (or don't want to rely on transcription that engages with the internet at all), I highly recommend offline apps such as MacWhisper, etc.
FYI for journalists who use Otter - if you stop paying the subscription, they remove all access to your previous transcripts (that you paid for). Very uncool
November 6, 2026 at 3:18 PM
INDEED.
Also, PSA to fellow reporters: If you want fast transcription and don't want any recordings housed on the internet (or don't want to rely on transcription that engages with the internet at all), I highly recommend offline apps such as MacWhisper, etc.
Also, PSA to fellow reporters: If you want fast transcription and don't want any recordings housed on the internet (or don't want to rely on transcription that engages with the internet at all), I highly recommend offline apps such as MacWhisper, etc.
Mac mini M6 z 24 GB RAM i 512 GB (late 2026) – benchmarki w Final Cut Pro, Lightroom, MacWhisper, LLM i innych | @imagazinepl.bsky.social
https://imagazine.pl/2026/11/04/mac-mini-m6-z-24-gb-ram-i-512-gb-late-2026-benchmarki-w-final-cut-pro-lightroom-macwhisper-llm-i-innych/
https://imagazine.pl/2026/11/04/mac-mini-m6-z-24-gb-ram-i-512-gb-late-2026-benchmarki-w-final-cut-pro-lightroom-macwhisper-llm-i-innych/
November 4, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Mac mini M6 z 24 GB RAM i 512 GB (late 2026) – benchmarki w Final Cut Pro, Lightroom, MacWhisper, LLM i innych | @imagazinepl.bsky.social
https://imagazine.pl/2026/11/04/mac-mini-m6-z-24-gb-ram-i-512-gb-late-2026-benchmarki-w-final-cut-pro-lightroom-macwhisper-llm-i-innych/
https://imagazine.pl/2026/11/04/mac-mini-m6-z-24-gb-ram-i-512-gb-late-2026-benchmarki-w-final-cut-pro-lightroom-macwhisper-llm-i-innych/
Enough!
I'm dictating in MacWhisper, navigate around, hit ESC to close some dialog -- and MacWhisper aborts the dictation instead, irrecoverably.
What do y'all use instead?
I'm dictating in MacWhisper, navigate around, hit ESC to close some dialog -- and MacWhisper aborts the dictation instead, irrecoverably.
What do y'all use instead?
November 5, 2026 at 7:10 AM
Enough!
I'm dictating in MacWhisper, navigate around, hit ESC to close some dialog -- and MacWhisper aborts the dictation instead, irrecoverably.
What do y'all use instead?
I'm dictating in MacWhisper, navigate around, hit ESC to close some dialog -- and MacWhisper aborts the dictation instead, irrecoverably.
What do y'all use instead?
haven’t tried Hex yet, but it does the same thing as MacWhisper and I strongly recommend the basic concept: hold a key for high quality local dictation into any input
October 31, 2026 at 7:29 PM
haven’t tried Hex yet, but it does the same thing as MacWhisper and I strongly recommend the basic concept: hold a key for high quality local dictation into any input
#czytałem: https://t.co/OnmHHfTGwX Mac mini M6 z 24 GB RAM i 512 GB (late 2026) – benchmarki w Final Cut Pro, Lightroom, MacWhisper, LLM i innych | iMagazine
November 7, 2026 at 12:25 AM
#czytałem: https://t.co/OnmHHfTGwX Mac mini M6 z 24 GB RAM i 512 GB (late 2026) – benchmarki w Final Cut Pro, Lightroom, MacWhisper, LLM i innych | iMagazine
As video meeting platforms like Zoom and Google Meet lock transcription features behind paywalls, laptop users are turning to third-party macOS and Windows applications like Jamie, MacWhisper, and Scribbl for real-time, bot-free meeting records.
https://hmjournal.com/en/s/wJjKJETL
https://hmjournal.com/en/s/wJjKJETL
Read more on HM Journal
As video meeting platforms like Zoom and Google Meet lock transcription features behind paywalls, laptop users are turning to third-party macOS and Windows applications like Jamie, MacWhisper, and Scr
hmjournal.com
November 7, 2026 at 4:03 PM
As video meeting platforms like Zoom and Google Meet lock transcription features behind paywalls, laptop users are turning to third-party macOS and Windows applications like Jamie, MacWhisper, and Scribbl for real-time, bot-free meeting records.
https://hmjournal.com/en/s/wJjKJETL
https://hmjournal.com/en/s/wJjKJETL
I like that Hex is more hackable and scriptable. MacWhisper lets you use an LLM for post-processing dictations in certain conditions, but it‘s not very configurable. would love to be able to run it through a script that shells out to my LLM CLI instead
October 31, 2026 at 7:31 PM
I like that Hex is more hackable and scriptable. MacWhisper lets you use an LLM for post-processing dictations in certain conditions, but it‘s not very configurable. would love to be able to run it through a script that shells out to my LLM CLI instead
→ What it does: Local RAG in a box. Drag and drop NDA contracts, financial spreadsheets, or medical PDFs into a local vector database. Ask questions with citations — nothing ever leaves your hard drive.
5. Whisper Desktop / MacWhisper — Offline Voice-to-Text
5. Whisper Desktop / MacWhisper — Offline Voice-to-Text
October 31, 2026 at 1:15 AM
→ What it does: Local RAG in a box. Drag and drop NDA contracts, financial spreadsheets, or medical PDFs into a local vector database. Ask questions with citations — nothing ever leaves your hard drive.
5. Whisper Desktop / MacWhisper — Offline Voice-to-Text
5. Whisper Desktop / MacWhisper — Offline Voice-to-Text
🔗 goodsnooze.gumroad.com/l/macwhisper (or Buzz on Windows)
→ What it does: Runs OpenAI’s Whisper model locally on your chip. Transcribes 60-minute client calls or voice memos in 45 seconds with 99% accuracy — completely offline.
6. Continue.dev — Local AI Coding in VS Code
🔗 continue.dev
→ What it does: Runs OpenAI’s Whisper model locally on your chip. Transcribes 60-minute client calls or voice memos in 45 seconds with 99% accuracy — completely offline.
6. Continue.dev — Local AI Coding in VS Code
🔗 continue.dev
Continue (acquired by Cursor)
Continue has been acquired by Cursor.
continue.dev
October 31, 2026 at 1:15 AM
🔗 goodsnooze.gumroad.com/l/macwhisper (or Buzz on Windows)
→ What it does: Runs OpenAI’s Whisper model locally on your chip. Transcribes 60-minute client calls or voice memos in 45 seconds with 99% accuracy — completely offline.
6. Continue.dev — Local AI Coding in VS Code
🔗 continue.dev
→ What it does: Runs OpenAI’s Whisper model locally on your chip. Transcribes 60-minute client calls or voice memos in 45 seconds with 99% accuracy — completely offline.
6. Continue.dev — Local AI Coding in VS Code
🔗 continue.dev
oth, cheap transcription softwares, like Macwhisper (recommended by Cory Doctorow) turns all audio (podcasts, movies, YouTube, etc.) into a transcript w/in minutes.
This opens the door to foreign language audio for transcription & machine translation to open access to non-Euro thought.
This opens the door to foreign language audio for transcription & machine translation to open access to non-Euro thought.
October 26, 2026 at 10:24 AM
oth, cheap transcription softwares, like Macwhisper (recommended by Cory Doctorow) turns all audio (podcasts, movies, YouTube, etc.) into a transcript w/in minutes.
This opens the door to foreign language audio for transcription & machine translation to open access to non-Euro thought.
This opens the door to foreign language audio for transcription & machine translation to open access to non-Euro thought.
I personally use MacWhisper, which runs on a local model on my hard drive. The audio and the transcript are never uploaded to the cloud and are not shared with any technology company or used to train models.
October 15, 2026 at 1:07 AM
I personally use MacWhisper, which runs on a local model on my hard drive. The audio and the transcript are never uploaded to the cloud and are not shared with any technology company or used to train models.
Used to manually sit with audio files, hitting play/pause, typing transcripts like some kind of medieval scribe. Now I just drag files onto MacWhisper and walk away. €64 lifetime. The stupid part was thinking that was normal.
🔗 https://www.macwhisper.com
#AItools #CreatorTools #IndieAI
🔗 https://www.macwhisper.com
#AItools #CreatorTools #IndieAI
October 11, 2026 at 4:02 AM
Used to manually sit with audio files, hitting play/pause, typing transcripts like some kind of medieval scribe. Now I just drag files onto MacWhisper and walk away. €64 lifetime. The stupid part was thinking that was normal.
🔗 https://www.macwhisper.com
#AItools #CreatorTools #IndieAI
🔗 https://www.macwhisper.com
#AItools #CreatorTools #IndieAI
Google débarque sur Mac avec AI Edge Foresight 🎙️
Une app gratuite qui transcrit réunions et fichiers audio tout en prenant des notes, grâce au modèle local EmbeddingGemma 2, optimisée pour Apple Silicon.
Face à Granola, MacWhisper ou Thoth, le créneau est déjà bien occupé.
Une app gratuite qui transcrit réunions et fichiers audio tout en prenant des notes, grâce au modèle local EmbeddingGemma 2, optimisée pour Apple Silicon.
Face à Granola, MacWhisper ou Thoth, le créneau est déjà bien occupé.
Google lance une app gratuite de prise de notes par IA optimisée pour les Mac Apple Silicon
Google donne parfois la priorité aux Mac dans le domaine de l'IA. L'entreprise vient par exemple de lancer Google AI Edge Foresight, un système permettant de transcrire des réunions et autres fichiers
www.macg.co
October 9, 2026 at 9:20 AM
Google débarque sur Mac avec AI Edge Foresight 🎙️
Une app gratuite qui transcrit réunions et fichiers audio tout en prenant des notes, grâce au modèle local EmbeddingGemma 2, optimisée pour Apple Silicon.
Face à Granola, MacWhisper ou Thoth, le créneau est déjà bien occupé.
Une app gratuite qui transcrit réunions et fichiers audio tout en prenant des notes, grâce au modèle local EmbeddingGemma 2, optimisée pour Apple Silicon.
Face à Granola, MacWhisper ou Thoth, le créneau est déjà bien occupé.
New PR: podcast transcripts (#786)
podcast transcripts by jimray · Pull Request #786 · bluesky-social/atproto-website
Add MacWhisper transcript pipeline and studio transcript editing
Add Juliet Shen episode transcript
Document transcripts; explain a missing -- in npm run transcribe
Mention transcripts in the feed ...
github.com
October 6, 2026 at 1:56 PM
New PR: podcast transcripts (#786)
9to5Mac より
MacWhisper update brings real-time meeting transcripts, improved speaker recognition, more
MacWhisperの更新により、リアルタイムのミーティングトランスクリプト、スピーカーの認識の改善、さらに
MacWhisper update brings real-time meeting transcripts, improved speaker recognition, more
MacWhisperの更新により、リアルタイムのミーティングトランスクリプト、スピーカーの認識の改善、さらに
MacWhisper gets real-time meeting transcripts and improved speaker recognition - 9to5Mac / MacWhisperはリアルタイムのミーティングトランスクリプトとスピーカーの認識を改善 - 9to5Mac
9to5mac.com
September 28, 2026 at 8:13 PM
9to5Mac より
MacWhisper update brings real-time meeting transcripts, improved speaker recognition, more
MacWhisperの更新により、リアルタイムのミーティングトランスクリプト、スピーカーの認識の改善、さらに
MacWhisper update brings real-time meeting transcripts, improved speaker recognition, more
MacWhisperの更新により、リアルタイムのミーティングトランスクリプト、スピーカーの認識の改善、さらに
Oral history friends/anyone using AI-assisted transcription: has anyone ever had a repeated error of a model transcribing into the wrong language? Is this just a byproduct of AI shitting the bed at the moment? After years of working beautifully, MacWhisper has apparently decided that I am...Welsh?
September 27, 2026 at 10:01 PM
Oral history friends/anyone using AI-assisted transcription: has anyone ever had a repeated error of a model transcribing into the wrong language? Is this just a byproduct of AI shitting the bed at the moment? After years of working beautifully, MacWhisper has apparently decided that I am...Welsh?
9to5Mac より
MacWhisper update brings real-time meeting transcripts, improved speaker recognition, more
MacWhisperの更新により、リアルタイムのミーティングトランスクリプト、スピーカーの認識の改善、さらに
MacWhisper update brings real-time meeting transcripts, improved speaker recognition, more
MacWhisperの更新により、リアルタイムのミーティングトランスクリプト、スピーカーの認識の改善、さらに
MacWhisper gets real-time meeting transcripts and improved speaker recognition - 9to5Mac / MacWhisperはリアルタイムのミーティングトランスクリプトとスピーカーの認識を改善 - 9to5Mac
9to5mac.com
September 25, 2026 at 11:43 PM
9to5Mac より
MacWhisper update brings real-time meeting transcripts, improved speaker recognition, more
MacWhisperの更新により、リアルタイムのミーティングトランスクリプト、スピーカーの認識の改善、さらに
MacWhisper update brings real-time meeting transcripts, improved speaker recognition, more
MacWhisperの更新により、リアルタイムのミーティングトランスクリプト、スピーカーの認識の改善、さらに
I'm waaay too late for this but in case it's useful in the future, this has come in super handy for me. A chunky download but in return it runs transcription entirely on your computer and has no usage limits.
MacWhisper
MacWhisper transcribes audio, video, meetings, and system audio locally on your Mac using Whisper, Parakeet and other AI models. Private, fast, and available with free and Pro options.
www.macwhisper.com
September 26, 2026 at 2:12 AM
I'm waaay too late for this but in case it's useful in the future, this has come in super handy for me. A chunky download but in return it runs transcription entirely on your computer and has no usage limits.
macOS純正のボイスメモAppに独り言を10分録音させた後MacWhisperに突っ込んでモデル選んで文字起こししてもらったけど、自分の環境の場合はボイスメモ側の方が日本語の認識精度高かった
September 26, 2026 at 3:13 AM
macOS純正のボイスメモAppに独り言を10分録音させた後MacWhisperに突っ込んでモデル選んで文字起こししてもらったけど、自分の環境の場合はボイスメモ側の方が日本語の認識精度高かった
Have been watching his videos for years and despite a degree of smarm, have liked him
But completely pilled recently
But completely pilled recently
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September 25, 2026 at 2:23 PM
Have been watching his videos for years and despite a degree of smarm, have liked him
But completely pilled recently
But completely pilled recently
9to5Mac より
MacWhisper update brings real-time meeting transcripts, improved speaker recognition, more
MacWhisperの更新により、リアルタイムのミーティングトランスクリプト、スピーカーの認識の改善、さらに
MacWhisper update brings real-time meeting transcripts, improved speaker recognition, more
MacWhisperの更新により、リアルタイムのミーティングトランスクリプト、スピーカーの認識の改善、さらに
MacWhisper gets real-time meeting transcripts and improved speaker recognition - 9to5Mac / MacWhisperはリアルタイムのミーティングトランスクリプトとスピーカーの認識を改善 - 9to5Mac
9to5mac.com
September 24, 2026 at 6:22 PM
9to5Mac より
MacWhisper update brings real-time meeting transcripts, improved speaker recognition, more
MacWhisperの更新により、リアルタイムのミーティングトランスクリプト、スピーカーの認識の改善、さらに
MacWhisper update brings real-time meeting transcripts, improved speaker recognition, more
MacWhisperの更新により、リアルタイムのミーティングトランスクリプト、スピーカーの認識の改善、さらに
MacWhisper update brings real-time meeting transcripts, improved speaker recognition, more
MacWhisper update brings real-time meeting transcripts, improved speaker recognition, more
My transcription tool of choice on the Mac, MacWhisper, got another major update today with real-time meeting transcripts, significantly improved speaker recognition, tighter integration with Apple Intelligence, and a new transcription model. Here are the details.
more…
9to5mac.com
September 23, 2026 at 9:36 PM
MacWhisper update brings real-time meeting transcripts, improved speaker recognition, more
MacWhisper 15.2 evolves: meetings are now transcribed in real time, and the new NVIDIA Nemotron 3 model allows for high-precision recognition of up to 8 different speakers. Deep integration with macOS 27 and Apple Intelligence.
MacWhisper 15.2: Live Transcripts and 8-Speaker Recognition
MacWhisper 15.2 evolves: meetings are now transcribed in real time, and the new NVIDIA Nemotron 3 model allows for high-precision recognition of up to 8 different speakers. Deep integration with macOS
www.alextech.ai
September 24, 2026 at 9:18 AM
MacWhisper 15.2 evolves: meetings are now transcribed in real time, and the new NVIDIA Nemotron 3 model allows for high-precision recognition of up to 8 different speakers. Deep integration with macOS 27 and Apple Intelligence.
otoh, the ability to send audio from my phone to be transcribed to obsidian is great.
I think MacWhisper is for the office, whisper server for personal
I think MacWhisper is for the office, whisper server for personal
September 24, 2026 at 5:26 AM
otoh, the ability to send audio from my phone to be transcribed to obsidian is great.
I think MacWhisper is for the office, whisper server for personal
I think MacWhisper is for the office, whisper server for personal
9to5Mac より
MacWhisper update brings real-time meeting transcripts, improved speaker recognition, more
MacWhisperの更新により、リアルタイムのミーティングトランスクリプト、スピーカーの認識の改善、さらに
MacWhisper update brings real-time meeting transcripts, improved speaker recognition, more
MacWhisperの更新により、リアルタイムのミーティングトランスクリプト、スピーカーの認識の改善、さらに
MacWhisper gets real-time meeting transcripts and improved speaker recognition - 9to5Mac / MacWhisperはリアルタイムのミーティングトランスクリプトとスピーカーの認識を改善 - 9to5Mac
9to5mac.com
September 23, 2026 at 10:14 PM
9to5Mac より
MacWhisper update brings real-time meeting transcripts, improved speaker recognition, more
MacWhisperの更新により、リアルタイムのミーティングトランスクリプト、スピーカーの認識の改善、さらに
MacWhisper update brings real-time meeting transcripts, improved speaker recognition, more
MacWhisperの更新により、リアルタイムのミーティングトランスクリプト、スピーカーの認識の改善、さらに