About Offline privacy transcription
Offline Transcription provides a fast and privacy-safe way to transcribe audio, video, and podcast files. If you are looking for an app to transcribe - Minutes of meetings. - Classroom audio recording. - Create subtitles...
Offline Transcription provides a fast and privacy-safe way to transcribe audio, video, and podcast files. If you are looking for an app to transcribe - Minutes of meetings. - Classroom audio recording. - Create subtitles for YouTube videos. - Transcribe podcasts into text. - etc. ◼ Features: - No data leaves your Mac. Transcription happens locally without the internet. - Easy to use interface. Drag and drop + one click are all you need to do. - Supported formats: - Audio: mp3, wav, m4a, ogg, aac, and caf - Video: mov and mp4 - Exported formats: text, srt, vtt, and csv. - Transcribes multiple files at once. ◼ Supported 99 different languages The app can transcribe audio in 99 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, Māori, Marathi, Mongolian, Nepali, Norwegian, Norwegian Nynorsk, Occitan, Pashto, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Sanskrit, Serbian, Shona, Sindhi, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Spanish, Sundanese, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Tajik, Tamil, Tatar, Telugu, Thai, Tibetan, Turkish, Turkmen, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Welsh, Yiddish, Yoruba Terms of Use: https://offlinetranscription.com/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://offlinetranscription.com/privacy/
Version History Offline Transcription now speaks your language. The whole app — every button, menu and message — is translated into 11 more languages, and follows the language your device is already set to. • Now available in Arabic, German, Simplified Chinese, French, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Vietnamese • Nothing to set up — the app matches your system language on its own As always, your audio never leaves your device: transcription runs locally, in 99 languages, with nothing uploaded. 1.2.0 Aug 31 A new transcription engine, and a big update around it. • Up to 3× faster transcription • Voice detection: silence and music no longer come back as repeated text • 2-hour recordings transcribe reliably, with far less memory • Redesigned list with live progress and time remaining • Pick a language per file on its Transcribe button • Segment browser: step through the transcript and hear the audio behind any line • New exports: HTML, PDF, SBV • Cancel is instant now 1.1.0 Aug 31 The app is around 40% smaller to download, and opening a file now transcribes just that file, in the language you picked. • Long recordings no longer fill up with repeated placeholder lines where nobody is speaking • Fixed the cut-off title at the top of the screen • Faster audio processing before transcription • Files waiting their turn now say so, instead of a spinner that looked stuck • Fixed crashes when opening a moved file, exporting subtitles, or deleting one file while another was transcribing • Fixed double spaces in transcripts and exports 1.0.9 Aug 29 Minor bug fixes and improvements. 1.0.8 Aug 27 Improve transcription when selecting non-English source audio language. 1.0.7 06/11/2024 Minor bug fixes and improvements. 1.0.6 04/24/2024 Minor bug fixes and improvements. 1.0.5 04/11/2024 You can copy text directly from transcription detail view. 1.0.4 03/23/2024 Fix the export option for paragraph style. 1.0.3 03/11/2024 Minor bug fixes. 1.0.1 10/23/2023 1.0.0 10/05/2023
Previous Versions
Here you can find the changelog of Offline privacy transcription since it was posted on our website on 2026-01-25 03:04:55.
The latest version is 1.2.0 and it was updated on 2026-10-07 01:54:50. See below the changes in each version.
Offline privacy transcription version 1.2.0
Updated At: 2026-10-07
Changes: Version History Offline Transcription now speaks your language. The whole app — every button, menu and message — is translated into 11 more languages, and follows the language your device is already set to.
• Now available in Arabic, German, Simplified Chinese, French, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Vietnamese
• Nothing to set up — the app matches your system language on its own
As always, your audio never leaves your device: transcription runs locally, in 99 languages, with nothing uploaded. 1.2.0 Aug 31 A new transcription engine, and a big update around it.
• Up to 3× faster transcription
• Voice detection: silence and music no longer come back as repeated text
• 2-hour recordings transcribe reliably, with far less memory
• Redesigned list with live progress and time remaining
• Pick a language per file on its Transcribe button
• Segment browser: step through the transcript and hear the audio behind any line
• New exports: HTML, PDF, SBV
• Cancel is instant now 1.1.0 Aug 31 The app is around 40% smaller to download, and opening a file now transcribes just that file, in the language you picked.
• Long recordings no longer fill up with repeated placeholder lines where nobody is speaking
• Fixed the cut-off title at the top of the screen
• Faster audio processing before transcription
• Files waiting their turn now say so, instead of a spinner that looked stuck
• Fixed crashes when opening a moved file, exporting subtitles, or deleting one file while another was transcribing
• Fixed double spaces in transcripts and exports 1.0.9 Aug 29 Minor bug fixes and improvements. 1.0.8 Aug 27 Improve transcription when selecting non-English source audio language. 1.0.7 06/11/2024 Minor bug fixes and improvements. 1.0.6 04/24/2024 Minor bug fixes and improvements. 1.0.5 04/11/2024 You can copy text directly from transcription detail view. 1.0.4 03/23/2024 Fix the export option for paragraph style. 1.0.3 03/11/2024 Minor bug fixes. 1.0.1 10/23/2023 1.0.0 10/05/2023
Offline privacy transcription version 1.2.0
Updated At: 2026-09-07
Changes: Version History Offline Transcription now speaks your language. The whole app — every button, menu and message — is translated into 11 more languages, and follows the language your device is already set to.
• Now available in Arabic, German, Simplified Chinese, French, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Vietnamese
• Nothing to set up — the app matches your system language on its own
As always, your audio never leaves your device: transcription runs locally, in 99 languages, with nothing uploaded. 1.2.0 6d ago A new transcription engine, and a big update around it.
• Up to 3× faster transcription
• Voice detection: silence and music no longer come back as repeated text
• 2-hour recordings transcribe reliably, with far less memory
• Redesigned list with live progress and time remaining
• Pick a language per file on its Transcribe button
• Segment browser: step through the transcript and hear the audio behind any line
• New exports: HTML, PDF, SBV
• Cancel is instant now 1.1.0 6d ago The app is around 40% smaller to download, and opening a file now transcribes just that file, in the language you picked.
• Long recordings no longer fill up with repeated placeholder lines where nobody is speaking
• Fixed the cut-off title at the top of the screen
• Faster audio processing before transcription
• Files waiting their turn now say so, instead of a spinner that looked stuck
• Fixed crashes when opening a moved file, exporting subtitles, or deleting one file while another was transcribing
• Fixed double spaces in transcripts and exports 1.0.9 Aug 29 Minor bug fixes and improvements. 1.0.8 Aug 27 Improve transcription when selecting non-English source audio language. 1.0.7 06/11/2024 Minor bug fixes and improvements. 1.0.6 04/24/2024 Minor bug fixes and improvements. 1.0.5 04/11/2024 You can copy text directly from transcription detail view. 1.0.4 03/23/2024 Fix the export option for paragraph style. 1.0.3 03/11/2024 Minor bug fixes. 1.0.1 10/23/2023 1.0.0 10/05/2023
Offline privacy transcription version 1.0.9
Updated At: 2026-08-31
Changes: Version History The app is around 40% smaller to download, and opening a file now transcribes just that file, in the language you picked.
• Long recordings no longer fill up with repeated placeholder lines where nobody is speaking
• Fixed the cut-off title at the top of the screen
• Faster audio processing before transcription
• Files waiting their turn now say so, instead of a spinner that looked stuck
• Fixed crashes when opening a moved file, exporting subtitles, or deleting one file while another was transcribing
• Fixed double spaces in transcripts and exports 1.0.9 1d ago Minor bug fixes and improvements. 1.0.8 3d ago Improve transcription when selecting non-English source audio language. 1.0.7 06/11/2024 Minor bug fixes and improvements. 1.0.6 04/24/2024 Minor bug fixes and improvements. 1.0.5 04/11/2024 You can copy text directly from transcription detail view. 1.0.4 03/23/2024 Fix the export option for paragraph style. 1.0.3 03/11/2024 Minor bug fixes. 1.0.1 10/23/2023 1.0.0 10/05/2023
Offline privacy transcription version 1.0.7
Updated At: 2026-08-12
Changes: Version History Improve transcription when selecting non-English source audio language. 1.0.7 06/11/2024 Minor bug fixes and improvements. 1.0.6 04/24/2024 Minor bug fixes and improvements. 1.0.5 04/11/2024 You can copy text directly from transcription detail view. 1.0.4 03/23/2024 Fix the export option for paragraph style. 1.0.3 03/11/2024 Minor bug fixes. 1.0.1 10/23/2023 1.0.0 10/05/2023
Offline privacy transcription version 1.0.7
Updated At: 2024-06-11
Changes: Improve transcription when selecting non-English source audio language.
