talat
Transcribes meetings and dictation entirely on your Mac or PC, never the cloud
Runs speech-to-text locally for three cases: meetings (dual-stream capture, speaker ID, auto-start on Zoom, Teams or Meet from your calendar), dictation anywhere via a global hotkey, and imported audio or video files in WAV, MP3, M4A, MP4, FLAC, OGG or AAC. AI notes come from a built-in local model (Qwen3.5-4B) by default, or your own cloud LLM like Claude or OpenAI if you choose to connect one. Exports to Markdown, Obsidian, PDF or webhook, and works with MCP-aware assistants; 10 hours are free with no account required before you pay monthly, yearly or once.
What holds up
- +Transcription and storage stay fully on-device — audio is never uploaded, per its own architecture claim
- +10 hours free with no account required before you pay anything
- +Comes with a built-in local model (Qwen3.5-4B) so AI notes work without sending audio to any cloud LLM
Mind the limits
- −Mac and Windows only — no Linux or mobile version
- −No price shown on the page — only "monthly, yearly, or once" without amounts
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