Aiko 4+
AI Speech-to-Text (Transcribe)
Sindre Sorhus
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- Free
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Description
High-quality on-device transcription. Easily convert speech to text from meetings, lectures, and more.
The transcription is powered by OpenAI's Whisper running locally on your device. Nothing leaves your device.
You can export the transcription as subtitles too.
Aiko favors accuracy over speed.
The app requires a Mac with at least 16 GB of RAM.
Supports audio in 100 different languages:
Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Assamese, Azerbaijani, Bangla, Bashkir, Basque, Belarusian, Bosnian, Breton, Bulgarian, Burmese, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Faroese, Finnish, French, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Gujarati, Haitian Creole, Hausa, Hawaiian, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Javanese, Kannada, Kazakh, Khmer, Korean, Lao, Latin, Latvian, Lingala, Lithuanian, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Malagasy, Malay, Malayalam, Maltese, Marathi, Mongolian, Māori, Nepali, Norwegian, Norwegian Nynorsk, Occitan, Pashto, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Sanskrit, Serbian, Shona, Sindhi, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Tajik, Tamil, Tatar, Telugu, Thai, Tibetan, Turkish, Turkmen, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Welsh, Yiddish, Yoruba
The app was made possible thanks to Whisper by OpenAI and whisper.cpp by Georgi Gerganov.
■ FAQ
‣ Can I edit the text in the app?
I don't plan to support any editing. Export the transcription and edit it in a proper text editor.
‣ Why is the app so large?
The app delivers the highest quality transcription on the market for 100 different languages. Rather than asking why it's so large, the real question is how is it so small.
‣ Why is the transcription so slow?
The favors accuracy over speed. However, performance is expected to improve in the coming months.
‣ Can I delete some of the languages to save space?
This is unfortunately not possible. The model has all the languages stored together in a way that makes it impossible to remove just some languages.
More FAQs on the website.
■ Technical details
The app uses the Whisper large v2 model on macOS and the medium or small model on iOS depending on available memory.
■ Privacy
The transcription is done locally on your device. Nothing leaves your device. The app is not even able to connect to the internet due to self-imposed restrictions that are enforced by macOS (no network entitlement).
■ Support
You can contact me through the feedback button in the “Help” menu in the app.
What’s New
Version 1.7.0
- Added setting for word replacements.
Ratings and Reviews
Great APP and it;s free
This App is amazing and just helped me pass my course. I had a bunch of video lectures that i wanted to gerneate notes out of and this App, trnascibed the whole video series for me so I dont have to type everything out.
It does consumes a lot of power and Memory and my macbook became quite hot but other than that it did what it was supposed to do and hopefully it can be better optimized in the future.
Choose your computer wisely with this
On my Imac I9 with 8core and 24GB ram it takes I see abround 2 hours for a half hour mp3 to trnascription - On My Iphone 12 it akes about 6 minutes for the same file. Yep 6m vs 2 HRS!
Developer Response ,
The reason it’s slow on your computer is that the graphics card is missing certain functionality, so Aiko has to run on the CPU, which is much slower than running on the graphics card. The app warns about this on the first launch.
It’s a bit unfair to give 3 stars for this, especially when I give away Aiko for free.
Best recording app
Hands down the best recording app out there! With its seamless interface and powerful transcription feature, turning audio into text is a total breeze. Highly recommended!
App Privacy
The developer, Sindre Sorhus, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer's privacy policy.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Sindre Sorhus
- Size
- 2.9 GB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 17.4 or later and a device with the A12 Bionic chip or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 17.4 or later and a device with the A12 Bionic chip or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 14.4 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.1 or later and a device with the A12 Bionic chip or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © Sindre Sorhus
- Price
- Free