Aiko 4+
AI Speech-to-Text (Transcribe)
Sindre Sorhus
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- £22.00
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Description
Works best on Apple silicon Macs. While it works on Intel-based Macs, it will be very slow on those.
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. It has a word-replacement feature to let you automatically fix common mistakes.
Aiko favors accuracy over speed.
It does not do live transcription while recording.
It does not currently have speaker detection.
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 1.8.2
- Bug fixes.
Ratings and Reviews
Excellent
My expectations are that ‘no’ transcription Apps would be 100% accurate, and that’s true for Aiko. However, the accuracy exceeded my expectations and overall I think this is an excellent App.
It would be very useful if the software could recognise different voices and insert Speaker 1 / Speaker 2 / etc prior to each piece of transcription. It would also be useful if it used more line breaks, as it tends to produce large amounts of block text. Maybe additional features such as this will be added over time.
Regardless, this App has been incredibly useful and a big time-saver.
The developer is as awesome as this app
The guy behind this app, Sindre, is brilliant. I don’t know him at all, but he’s made this entire app, 100% free, just to allow other people to use Whisper easily. Not only that, but he’s even made shortcuts you can download to use with the shortcut iOS and macOS app for Aiko to be even more useful. He’s got a comprehensive guide of everything on his website. So not only he’s done this awesome app, but also went the extra mile with everything on the website. Mate!! You’re brilliant Sindre, thank you so much.
Superb
This is a superb app. I have been using it to transcript webinars and recorded videos of meetings from iPhones. The .srt files created seem to work fine and I have been using Handbrkae to add them to the final conveted videos.
There are a few errors, but these are usually real names or technical details, easy to edit the .srt file to fix them. A 'search & replace' works well as most errors are consistent. All in all - a life saver!
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 2.0 or later and a device with A12 Bionic chip or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © Sindre Sorhus
- Price
- £22.00
Supports
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Family Sharing
Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.