Best Mac App for Transciptions
I use Transcriptionist daily, to transcribe podcasts, YouTube videos, and any audio content. I love being able to choose from various “brains” to balance speed and accuracy, export formats include everything you could need, and it’s on iPhone and iPad as well!
Unclear how to export
My goal is transcribe audio from meetings with clients into text, then to export said text to private AI to create a summary of the meeting. I love that transcription is handled privately on device, but for the life of me, I cannot figure out how to export the text. The user guide provides instructions to use the “Export” option in the file menu, which does not seem to exist, nor can I find the option anywhere else. I’ll probably reach out to the developer for support, but it shouldn’t be this hard. Using on an M5 iPad Pro.
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Great but..
It’s great at what it does but I think it should have a one time purchase instead considering it does the same job and will always do the same task in the future. Big Ups to making it so apple like tho!
Not Understanding the High Ratings
Just downloaded and subscribed to this app and right away it repeatedly crashes every time I use the search and replace feature. And why am I having to use the search and replace feature? Because in practically every other sentence there are words that were transcribed incorrectly. The errors are so bad it’s difficult figuring out what was actually said to correct in the transcription. Does it do more than the transcribe feature in Apple Notes and Voice Memos apps? Yes. It will combine multiple separately-recorded audio tracks (say, from a Zoom recording), and include time stamps, allow you to edit/correct it’s errors, change the names it assigns to participants of the audio, etc. - which are all things I need - but with the errors and search/replace (for those errors) crashes make me question whether even the relatively low subscription fee is worth it.
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Awesome
Works on device (resource intensive, that’s normal). Better privacy. For (Canadian) French, it works better with the Large brain than others that do have the Canadian option, as opposed to this one.
Seeing good progress
Wow, what a few months makes and I'm happy to see some UX improvements. So I'm back to evaluating this application. I would like to see better integration from Ferrite to Transcriptionist. It's also confused why I cannot use large brain on my iPad Pro when I have more than enough on device space. Why tease it and then say I cannot have it? Looking to bump to 4 or 5 star in the future.
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How do you use this?
I heard about this app in the iPad Pros podcast and decided to give it a try as I need to transcribe audio and happy to pay for it. Problem is I haven't a clue how this application works. I have an iPad Pros M4 11" w/ 256GB. I record an audio file on Ferrite, but then there is no way to upload it to this app. Author/Dev - please email me when this is a bit more useful, I'd love to try it out.
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Response from developer
Hello! I’m sorry to hear that you have encountered difficulty using Transcriptionist. For assistance with using the app, please contact us directly using the Customer Support link inside the app, or by visiting our website (we have no way of emailing you in reply to App Store reviews, as they’re public, and so don’t include your email address). Thanks!
Very nice transcription but minor improvement better
Accuracy of transcription is acceptable though sometimes words are missing. It saves a lot of work to clearly understand the speaker.
One improvement I am looking forward to is to collate the transcripted text in a clip with Ferrite so that some words may be positioned in the waveform to facilitate editing the corresponding clip. I mean it would be better to integrate the Transcriptionist
Into Ferrite, or vice versa.
It is a really good audio editor app!
One improvement I am looking forward to is to collate the transcripted text in a clip with Ferrite so that some words may be positioned in the waveform to facilitate editing the corresponding clip. I mean it would be better to integrate the Transcriptionist
Into Ferrite, or vice versa.
It is a really good audio editor app!
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Works very well for me
I’ve been running this on my MacBook Pro with the largest model and it’s been great. Very happy with the app.
Integrate with Ferrite
What I really need and I would LOVE to pay for is a transcribe option in Ferrite!! My dream intergration would be automated "Show Notes" in the notes part of the info panel. Having to send to another app to transcribe and another app to write the show notes is a mess I would pay to get out of!
Great implementation
Love this app. It’s a huge time-saver. I know this isn’t part of the whisper API yet, but if you could find a way to detect and diarise different voices from a single audio track, that would be incredible.
Fails more than it works
First of all, this is a GUI for the OpenAI Whisper project. But as implemented on iOS in my first several tests, it has failed way more often than it has worked. Does your phone go to sleep because transcription is so slow? It fails with no notification. Is your audio file 32 bit? Again, it seems to fail without notification. I’m guessing here, since, again, there are no prompts or pop-ups to tell you what’s happening. The circular completion pie tells you something, but not if you turn away from your phone. Can you multi-task out of the app while transcription runs? I’m not sure, but I don’t think so.
Also, it uses the file name to name the speaker, not the transcription file. So all of your transcriptions are by default called “Untitled,” even when you import audio. And your speaker is called “Episode 6” or whatever.
Seems like it would be much improved with two settings: force phone to not sleep during transcription, and “name transcription file with audio file name.”
Also, it uses the file name to name the speaker, not the transcription file. So all of your transcriptions are by default called “Untitled,” even when you import audio. And your speaker is called “Episode 6” or whatever.
Seems like it would be much improved with two settings: force phone to not sleep during transcription, and “name transcription file with audio file name.”
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A neat app, but it needs work.
I transcribed two different podcasts with this app that were a little bit over an hour long. Large chunks of the podcast were omitted in the transcription. It’s a need app, but it needs to be able to work better with transcribing and not leave out pieces of the text. on one podcast I was working with, although it got the end of the podcast, it left out 20 minutes right in the middle of the podcast.
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