- file
- podcast-transcription.transcript
- speakers
- You, vocateca
- address
- vocateca.com/en/podcast-transcription
- duration
- 00:03:06 · 421 words
Podcast episodes as searchable transcripts
Opening
Vocateca turns Apple Podcasts and Spotify episodes into timestamped text on your Mac, so an hour of audio becomes something you can skim, search, and quote.
How it works
Add a show. Paste an episode link or subscribe to a podcast by its Apple, Spotify, or RSS address. Transcribe locally. Vocateca downloads the episode audio and transcribes it on your Mac — no cloud service, no per-minute billing. Read and export. Skim the timestamped transcript, jump to any moment, and export to Markdown, SRT, or JSON. Apple Podcasts. Paste an Apple Podcasts episode or show link. Vocateca resolves it to the underlying feed and transcribes new episodes as they publish. Spotify Podcasts. Add a Spotify show or episode link. Where an open feed is available, Vocateca subscribes and keeps the transcript library up to date.
How it's different
Web transcribers upload each episode and charge per minute. Vocateca subscribes to the feed and transcribes locally, so a long back catalogue is just disk space.
| Feature | Vocateca | Online tools |
|---|---|---|
| Where audio is processed | On your Mac, offline | Uploaded to their servers |
| Cost model | One app, no per-minute fees | Per-minute or subscription credits |
| Subscriptions | Auto-transcribe new episodes | One episode at a time |
| Apple + Spotify + RSS | Yes | Varies |
| Timestamps | Per-line, clickable | Often plain text only |
| Export formats | Markdown, TXT, SRT, VTT, JSON | Limited or paywalled |
| CLI + MCP | Yes — scriptable, LLM-ready | No |
| Back-catalogue cost | Free after download | Pay per minute, every time |
What leaves your Mac for this source
These entries come from the complete list. The entries that belong to no single source, such as updates and speech models, are on the complete list too. The complete list
| # | What | Goes to | Only when |
|---|---|---|---|
| When you add, search or refresh what you follow4 entriesonly when you act | |||
| 01 | Podcast feeds | Straight to the RSS feed, nowhere in between.the show’s own server | A show refreshes, or you add one. |
| 02 | Podcast search | Apple’s public search, with the words you typed.itunes.apple.com/search | You search for a show. |
| 03 | Spotify links | The public embed page, read once to find the show. The audio then comes from the show’s feed.open.spotify.com/embed/… | You paste a Spotify link. |
| 04 | Artwork and thumbnails | Loaded once, then kept in a cache on your Mac.the server that hosts each image | A show, channel or search result is shown. |
More to explore
Every export format. Markdown for notes, SRT/VTT for captions, JSON for pipelines. Pick what your workflow needs. See export formats
Apple, Spotify & RSS. Subscribe by whichever address you have — Vocateca resolves it to the feed and keeps up with new episodes.
Private by default. Transcription runs on-device. No uploads, no third-party servers, no account required. How privacy works
Transcribe from the command line
The same engine ships as a CLI and an MCP server, so you can transcribe a podcast episode from a script or hand it to an LLM agent.
Terminal
vocateca transcript https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id0000000000Open-core: the CLI and MCP server are Apache-2.0.
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Turn episodes into text you can search