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Local Transcriber for Mac

Offline transcription for meetings, calls, and dictation, with speaker recognition.

By teconomix. Free and open source, MIT licence.

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Local Transcriber at a glance

Version
0.15
Released
13 November 2026
Download size
1.8 MB
Works on
Apple silicon and Intel
Licence
MIT
Category
Audio and Music
Developer
teconomix
GitHub stars
11

About Local Transcriber

Transcribe meetings, calls and dictation locally on your Mac – with speaker recognition, no cloud. Whisper + pyannote, menu bar app. German and English.

Screenshots

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How to install Local Transcriber on a Mac

  1. Get OpenDMG. It is a free app store for open source Mac apps. Download OpenDMG.
  2. Search for Local Transcriber and press Get. OpenDMG downloads version 0.15 from teconomix's own GitHub release.
  3. Open it. The download is checked against its SHA-256 fingerprint and its signature is checked on your Mac before it lands in Applications.

Updates to Local Transcriber show up in OpenDMG and install with one button. No account is needed.

Prefer to do it by hand? The developer's file is on GitHub: Transcriber-0.15.zip (1.8 MB).

What is new in Local Transcriber 0.15

**The app stays lean even after days of running, short summaries fit the panel, and calls from a room with its own call computer are separated cleanly.**

**Install or update** (Apple Silicon, macOS 14+): in the app, “Copy update command”, or

```bash
curl -fsSL https://transcriber.teconomix.net/install.sh | bash
```

Homebrew: `brew upgrade --cask local-transcriber`

**Memory leak fixed**
- On macOS 27, the menu bar app grew by about 100 MB per hour while a settings page was open, up to many gigabytes after several days. The cause is a SwiftUI issue in settings forms, triggered by every dictation and by the background job list. The settings pages no longer react to these updates, and the app only reports real changes. In a load test, no view grows any more.

**Short summaries fit the panel**
- The “Short summary” template now asks for 3–4 sentences (before: 5–8, often cut off in the panel).
- The panel shows up to 10 lines. Longer summaries (including older ones) open with a click on the text or on “whole summary …”.

**Calls from a room with its own call computer**
- If you record with your Mac in a room where another computer runs the call, the voices in the room come back through the call. Before, everyone in the room appeared twice and the remote person could be merged with someone in the room. Transcriber now detects this and evaluates the recording mixed.
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