Vertano
IN THE MATTER OF: YOUR UNREAD AUDIOCASE NO. ∞ VOICE MEMOSFILED: LOCALLY, ALWAYS
Batch transcription · offline & free

Drop a folder.
Read everything.

Q.  I have two hundred recordings I've never listened to.

A.  Drop the folder. Every file becomes a .txt transcript, saved right beside it.

no uploads, no accounts, no per-minute fees. Everything runs on your own machine.

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Transcript of proceedingsQUEUE: 8 FILES
interview-lahore.m4a → .txt
WAVMP3M4AFLACOGGOPUSAIFFCAFVOICE MEMOSMP4MOVWEBM100 languages · on-device translation · YouTube caption cleanup · runs locally
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The procedure

Three entries on the docket.

ENTRY 01
Drop
Drag in audio files, an entire folder, or a downloaded YouTube caption file. Vertano searches every subfolder and queues everything it can work on.
ENTRY 02
Transcribe
Speech recognition runs right on your machine, accelerated by Apple Silicon. A five-second clip finishes in under a second, and nothing ever touches the network.
ENTRY 03
Read
Each transcript is saved as name.txt beside its audio file, and kept in the app so you can copy it or reveal it in Finder.
The exhibits

A stenographer that lives on your machine.

Cloud services charge by the minute and read your audio on their servers. Vertano does the same work locally, for nothing. Explore what it does:

Ready?Free on Mac, Windows, Linux, and Android. Go to the download page.