Desktop and phone
Recording and transcription
Capture a thought out loud, keep the audio, and turn it into text on your own terms.
You can record straight into a note, or open the Record view for a longer session. Either way the audio is yours: it is saved to your device, it plays back inside the note, and transcription only happens if and where you tell it to.
Recording
- 1Use the microphone button in a note to record in place, or open Record for a standalone session.
- 2Speak. A long recording is split into chunks and written to disk as it goes, so nothing is lost if the app stops.
- 3Press Stop when you are done, or Discard to throw it away.
Turning speech into text
Transcription is a separate step and it is optional. There are two routes, and they differ by platform.
- On device
- Desktop: Yes
- Phone: No
- What it needs: A sherpa-onnx recogniser downloaded through Settings ▸ Speech to Text. Nothing leaves the machine.
- Your own server
- Desktop: Yes
- Phone: Yes
- What it needs: A Whisper-compatible endpoint you host. Audio is sent to that address and nowhere else.
- Live streaming
- Desktop: No
- Phone: Yes
- What it needs: Text appears as you speak, rather than after you stop.
| Route | Desktop | Phone | What it needs |
|---|---|---|---|
| On device | Yes | No | A sherpa-onnx recogniser downloaded through Settings ▸ Speech to Text. Nothing leaves the machine. |
| Your own server | Yes | Yes | A Whisper-compatible endpoint you host. Audio is sent to that address and nowhere else. |
| Live streaming | No | Yes | Text appears as you speak, rather than after you stop. |
Playback alongside the transcript
A recording embedded in a note plays inline, directly beside the text it produced. That means you can check a wording against what was actually said without leaving the note.
Yes. Recording and playback are entirely local. Only server-based transcription needs the network, and on-device transcription on the desktop does not.