Transcribe your own files, fully offline
Drop an audio or video file into Vocateca and get a timestamped transcript on your Mac. Nothing is uploaded — the file never leaves your machine.
Download for MacHow it works
Drop a file
Drag in any common audio or video file — meetings, lectures, voice memos, interviews. Batches are fine.
Transcribe on-device
The model runs on your Mac. There is no upload, no server, and it keeps working without a network connection.
Read and export
Read the timestamped transcript, correct names if you like, and export to Markdown, SRT, VTT, or JSON.
How it's different
Cloud transcribers upload your recording and bill per minute. Vocateca runs entirely on your Mac — private, offline, and free to run as often as you like.
| Feature | Vocateca | Online tools |
|---|---|---|
| Where audio is processed | On your Mac, offline | Uploaded to their servers |
| Works without internet | Yes | No |
| Cost model | One app, no per-minute fees | Per-minute or subscription credits |
| Batch files | Drop many at once | Often one at a time |
| Sensitive recordings | Never leave your machine | Stored on their servers |
| Export formats | Markdown, TXT, SRT, VTT, JSON | Limited or paywalled |
| CLI + MCP | Yes — scriptable, LLM-ready | No |
| Speaker labels | Optional diarization | Often paywalled |
In short: If a recording is private, keep it that way — transcribe it on your own machine.
More to explore
Every export format
Markdown for notes, SRT/VTT for captions, JSON for pipelines. Pick what your workflow needs.
See export formats →Works offline
No network required. Transcribe on a plane, in a SCIF, or anywhere your recordings shouldn't touch the cloud.
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 local file from a script or hand it to an LLM agent.
Open-core: the CLI and MCP server are Apache-2.0.
See LLM workflows →Terminal
vocateca transcript ./interview.mp3 --format md