Aiko 4+
AI Speech-to-Text (Transcribe)
Sindre Sorhus
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- $16.00
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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
Way Better Than Apple’s Transcriptions
I’ve been using Aiko on Apple Voice Memo Recordings of technical conference sessions, webinars, and training sessions. Initially on an iPhone X, and now on an iPhone 16. Aiko’s transcriptions are way more accurate than Apple’s transcriptions. Aiko takes more time to transcribe but produces a more comprehensible product with less scrubbing required. In fact I find Apple’s output to be mostly incomprehensible. Aiko works through accents and ambient and competing noise. It does its best to decipher names and comes close in difficult cases and keeps errors consistent so you can find and replace easily. It does OK with technical jargon as well - within reason. Whereas Apple’s transcriptions totally lose it and produce gobbledygook. This app is highly recommended as a very helpful productivity tool.
Amazing- but a fatal flaw
I love this app because it allows me to record my short staff huddles that are held in a noisy environment on my iPhone 12 Pro Max. It catches more words than I can, and after taking 4 min or so to process the recording, it provides a largely accurate transcript. I’ve also been able to record foreign languages and have the words translated into English. The translations aren’t always clear, but that happens often with app translating in general. The problem: it often flakes out before I can save the transcript, due to not working in the background. If a call comes in or the display sleeps or screen changes, there goes all that data. It’s a fatal flaw that has me looking for a different AI transcription app, unfortunately.
The problem of repeating words/phrases isn’t a huge problem, but can take up a lot of line that I have to delete.
If they fix the crashes, I’ll promote this to the high heavens.
Phenomenal and somehow free?
I have researched endlessly trying to find my options to transcribe the many discussions I recorded with my parents about their past. Now that they are no longer with us I was looking for options to transcribe so many recordings with non-ideal audio. (We’d often chat with the TV on in the background, for example) I wasn’t expecting great results but hoping for a starting point and weeding through random background noise transcriptions. Somehow these things are so good and it only grabs the conversations. I need to clean them up a bit of course because no non-human translation is perfect, but it is so much better than I was hoping! I rarely leave reviews, but I’m almost in tears with how well this has suited my needs!
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, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Sindre Sorhus
- Size
- 2.9 GB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 17.4 or later and a device with the A12 Bionic chip or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 17.4 or later and a device with the A12 Bionic chip or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 14.4 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 2.0 or later and a device with the A12 Bionic chip or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © Sindre Sorhus
- Price
- $16.00
Supports
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Family Sharing
Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.