Every word, written down. Nothing uploaded.
Transcription is the part everyone sells by the minute. Here it runs on hardware you already paid for, which is why it costs nothing per hour and works with the wifi off.
In short: yapyap turns a recording into text on your own machine, using open speech models you choose in settings. No account, no per-minute meter, and no queue behind somebody else's upload.
Which models do the work
- Open models that run locally, such as OpenAI's Whisper and NVIDIA's Parakeet.
- You pick the model in settings, trading speed against accuracy as the job needs.
- Bigger models are slower and better. On your own machine that is your call, not a pricing tier.
- Nothing about the choice sends audio anywhere: it all happens on your computer.
What you get back
- Text you can search across the whole archive, not one recording at a time.
- A name on every voice, so a transcript reads as a conversation rather than a wall.
- Export to Markdown, plain text, Word, HTML, JSON, CSV, and SubRip or WebVTT subtitles.
- The transcript kept underneath every write-up, so a lens never becomes the only copy.
Why local transcription is worth the trade
Cloud transcription is faster on a slow laptop and cheaper to start. It also means every recording you make is a file on somebody else's disk, priced per minute forever. Local transcription costs you some patience on long files and buys you an archive nobody can meter, revoke, or read. Roughly a hundred languages are in reach either way.
FAQ
- Is offline transcription as accurate as cloud transcription?
- For most recordings, close enough that the difference is not what decides it. Accuracy tracks the model you pick and the quality of the audio far more than where the computation happens. Clean audio and a larger model beat a cloud service on a noisy room recording.
- How long does transcribing take?
- It depends on the model you chose and the machine you are on. A smaller model returns a long recording quickly; a larger one takes longer and reads difficult audio better. Nothing is queued behind other customers.
- Can I transcribe a recording I made somewhere else?
- Yes. yapyap imports audio you already have, so an old voice memo or an exported call can be transcribed and searched like anything you recorded in it.
- Do I need an internet connection to transcribe?
- No. Once a model is on your machine, transcription runs with the wifi off. That is the same reason there is no per-minute charge.
Record your meetings. See who spoke. Turn one recording into the write-up you need, on your computer, with no cloud account.
Free to try. No card, no account.
Then €69, once. Yours forever, every update included.
Your recordings never leave your computer.