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 app 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 1.7.2
- Bug fixes.
Ratings and Reviews
Nice
Has already saved me a lot of time. We used this tool for your interview and were then able to transform it into a well-formulated interview within a few minutes using GPT
nach erneutem Versuch: Unbrauchbar...
manchmal funktioniert's - regelmässig aber erhalte ich komplett irritierende Reaktionen - Deutsch wird Koreanisch oder Norwegisch - oder sinnlose Leersätze in unendlicher Reihenfolge. Dringend abzuraten, so etwas zu unterstützen.
Developer Response ,
ich dachte auch, dass das ein Super-Transcriptionsproramm ist - nach vielen Evaluationen das Beste... Heute wolllte ich eine sehr persönlichen und privaten Text - nicht eben DEI-konform, aber ehrlich mir selber gegenüber - diktieren. Das Resultat hat mich schockiert und ratlos zurückgelassen: mein Text wurde nicht transkribiert, sondern ich konne nachverfolgen, wie mein 2'-Didkat übersetzt wurde in inhalts- und bedeutungsleeres "you you you...." - wirklich nichts anderes, nachdem ich nun schon seit Moaten Mails und einfache Texte absolut perfekt transkribiert hatte - allerdings noch nie "politisch unkerrekt" offenbar... Ich werde das Prgramm umgehend löschen.
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There is no filter or sensoring going on in the app. The app transcribes audio no matter the content. What you are seeing is a common flaw in the AI model (Whisper) used by the app. It can sometimes struggle with text with a lot of silent parts and get stuck and just keep repeating itself. There's unfortunately nothing I can do about this, other than wait for OpenAI to fix this flaw.
Une perle !
Très bonne application qui fonctionne très bien sur iPhone comme iPad.
Manque juste qu’elle soit traduite, et qu’on puisse sélectionner le niveau du modèle.
Dommage que l’icône ne soit pas + pro, ça fait un peu enfantin.
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 based on, for example, the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Provider
- Sindre Sorhus
- Size
- 2.9 GB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 17.4 or later and a device with A12 Bionic chip or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 17.4 or later and a device with A12 Bionic chip or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 14.4 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.1 or later and a device with A12 Bionic chip or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © Sindre Sorhus
- Price
- Free