Apps similar to Thoth include anarlog, which is open source with a free version. Other options are Spokenly, BB Recorder, Granola and Trace: Meeting Transcripts. You're spoiled for choice with Audio Transcription Tools like Thoth: we list more than 25 alternatives for Mac, the web, iPhone, iPad and Android.
Scrivari automatically records and transcribes your notes, meetings, interviews and podcasts into text, with speaker identification and one-click summaries. Named-entity detection and anonymization, data hosted in France. Free trial 2 hours per month.
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Sembly records, transcribes, and analyzes your meetings to provide smart summaries and actionable insights. Sembly connects to your Google or Outlook calendar and joins your Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, and Zoom calls along with you or on its own.
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AuroraNote turns audio/video lectures, PDFs, slides and photos of handwritten notes into study material. It transcribes with speaker labels and automatic language detection, then generates clean text, notes, summaries, translations, mind maps, FSRS-6 flashcards, quizzes and...
Turn interviews, meetings, lectures and other recordings into editable transcripts with speaker labels and timestamps. Review wording in the browser, export to Word or plain text, and use an AI assistant to ask questions about recordings, documents and research.
now recording is a meeting recorder and transcriber that runs entirely in your web browser. Speech recognition is performed on your own device using OpenAI's Whisper compiled to WebAssembly, so the audio is converted to text locally and is never uploaded to a server.
Transcribe meetings, calls and recordings on your own computer, and get the summary and minutes, without your audio leaving the machine.
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Parrot records your calls on your Mac: Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, or anything else your Mac can hear. No bot joins the meeting. It transcribes on your Mac with Whisper, tells the speakers apart on your Mac, and runs a live assistant next to the transcript.
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Transcrio is a macOS menu bar app that records microphone and system audio for calls, lectures, voice notes and browser audio, saves the source files locally, and creates transcripts and summaries without adding a meeting bot.
Records lectures, meetings and calls and writes structured notes — transcription and AI run locally on your Mac. Free, open source, no account.
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Muet is a native macOS app for recording meetings, generating live transcripts, recognizing speakers, and creating summaries and action items. Transcription and AI processing run locally on your Mac.
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Subanana is a multilingual AI speech-to-text workspace for subtitles, transcripts, translation, meeting minutes and live event captions.
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A Mac menu bar app that records, transcribes and summarises your meetings entirely on your own machine — no cloud, no account, no bot joining the call.
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