Whisper Notes Journal
Practical guides to private transcription, clearer recordings, and turning spoken ideas into useful work.
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Move MP3, WAV, or M4A recordings from a digital recorder to iPhone or iPad, transcribe them on-device, review key details, and export useful text without uploading the audio.
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Understand how Whisper works, how tiny through large-v3-turbo differ, how to evaluate multilingual accuracy, and how to run speech-to-text locally on Mac, iPhone, and iPad.
Record system audio and microphone input on Mac, transcribe meetings on-device, and turn the transcript into decisions and action items without adding a meeting bot.
Learn where SenseVoice Small fits for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean speech recognition, how to benchmark it fairly, and when Whisper remains the better choice.
Understand the move from the Mac App Store to a website DMG, why system-wide dictation uses Accessibility permission, and how to verify signing, notarization, and updates.
A practical guide to NVIDIA Parakeet TDT 0.6B V3, its 25-language coverage, long-form performance, and a reproducible method for comparing it with Whisper on Mac.
Use local voice typing in email, documents, chat, and code editors. Set up shortcuts and permissions, improve dictation habits, and understand the privacy boundary.
Explore Mistral Voxtral’s 3B and 24B open models, 32K context, direct audio summarization and Q&A, deployment trade-offs, and fair benchmark design.
Compare Whisper, Parakeet, and SenseVoice for on-device transcription and understand hardware, privacy boundaries, accuracy testing, and workflows across iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
Evaluate offline processing, transcription quality, imports, open exports, Apple Watch capture, pricing, deletion, and backup controls before choosing a voice memo app.
Set up Whisper Notes on Mac, import long recordings, choose a local model, verify text against timestamps, and export the result into an open workflow.
See how large-v3-turbo reduces decoder depth for faster transcription, where quality can differ, and how to benchmark both models on Mac, iPhone, and iPad.
Your voice is uniquely personal. Keeping recognition on-device removes the upload, the waiting, and an entire category of privacy risk.
A repeatable three-step system for capturing ideas, cleaning the transcript, and moving the result into your notes app.
Better placement and a few recording habits can improve transcription more than hours of manual correction.
The same transcript can become a working note, subtitles, an outline, or a document. Here is when each format fits.
A lightweight voice habit for walks, commutes, and the moments when reaching for your phone is too much friction.
