Transcription App for Journalists
🎙️ Turn hours of interviews into publish-ready quotes — without ever leaving your machine.
Whether you’re chasing a breaking story, conducting in-depth investigative interviews, or reviewing hours of press conference recordings, transcription is the bottleneck between raw audio and a published article. Transcription App removes that bottleneck entirely — and keeps your sources’ data exactly where it belongs: on your computer.
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🔒 Everything runs locally on your device. No files are uploaded. No content is stored remotely. No data is shared with third parties. Ever.
🎙️ Unlimited Transcription in 99 Languages
Forget the 2-minute caps and upload limits of browser-based tools. Recorded a 3-hour investigative interview? Transcribe it in full — start to finish, on your own machine. Covering multilingual sources or foreign correspondents? Transcription App supports 99 languages using OpenAI’s state-of-the-art Whisper models, including the newest Large V3 Turbo.
- 🗣️ Automatic speaker diarisation — powered by Pyannote, with over 80% precision, every voice is labelled so you always know who said what
- ⚡ Blazing fast — depending on your hardware, reach transcription speeds of up to ~x20 real-time
- 🔎 Verbatim search across all your recordings — find key quotes, recurring statements, or specific phrases in seconds
- 🏷️ Tag and annotate — mark passages with story codes or follow-up flags directly inside the transcript
📂 Unlimited Projects — One Place for Every Beat
Organise your work the way your newsroom demands:
- 📁 Group interviews, press conferences, and briefings into separate projects with names and descriptions
- 📝 Project-by-project note taking
- 🗂️ Keep ongoing investigations, background interviews, and breaking news clips cleanly separated
- 📦 Archive and share projects across devices — send a project file to a colleague and they can pick up right where you left off
🔒 Private by Design — Your Sources Deserve It
Source protection is fundamental to journalism. Confidentiality doesn’t extend to cloud servers you don’t control. Unlike typical transcription services that require uploading audio to remote servers with opaque storage practices, Transcription App takes a fundamentally different approach.
- 🛡️ No user accounts tied to your data — it’s an app, not a platform. We just need your email to check your subscription… And that’s it!
- 🧠 Speech recognition and speaker identification are computed entirely on your machine
- ✅ Fully compatible with press freedom standards and newsroom data security policies
- 🏠 Set custom storage locations — keep recordings on encrypted drives or secure institutional infrastructure.
This isn’t just a feature. For journalists working with whistleblowers, sensitive investigations, or off-the-record sources, local processing is a necessity.
🧑💻 Built by a Researcher, Trusted by Journalists
Transcription App is created by Dr. Samuel Haddad-Bacry, a qualitative researcher who built the tool to simplify working with interview transcripts. Whether you’re a freelance journalist with a stack of recorded calls or a newsroom producer managing hours of field audio — this app adapts to the way you work.
No cloud. No platform. No data you can’t account for.
🎨 Make It Yours
🤖 Scan your own local Whisper models for specialised vocabulary, accents, or languages
🖋️ Choose from 15+ fonts for comfortable reading during long transcription review sessions
📐 A friendly, efficient interface designed to let you edit, correct, and refine transcripts seamlessly — ready to copy straight into your article
🔄 Import & Export — Fits Your Editorial Workflow
- 📥 Import existing transcripts in SRT, VTT, or DOC format
- 📤 Export transcripts as .doc, .txt, .srt, or .vtt — and back up entire projects as ZIP archives
- 🔗 Move data seamlessly into your preferred writing tools, CMS platforms, or shared newsroom drives
New to Transcription App? Start with our introduction tutorial, then follow our guide to getting a subscription.