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Aiko

Submitted by AnonyMouse, 14 April, 2023
Member of the AppleVis Editorial Team
Last updated on 11 May, 2023
Category
Productivity

Description of App

High-quality on-device transcription. Easily convert speech to text from meetings, lectures, and more.

The transcription is powered by OpenAI's Whisper running locally on your device. The audio never leaves your device.

You can export the transcription as subtitles too.

Aiko favors accuracy over speed.

The app requires a Mac with at least 16 GB of RAM.

Supports 100 different languages:

Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Assamese, Azerbaijani, Bangla, Bashkir, Basque, Belarusian, Bosnian, Breton, Bulgarian, Burmese, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Faroese, Finnish, French, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Gujarati, Haitian Creole, Hausa, Hawaiian, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Javanese, Kannada, Kazakh, Khmer, Korean, Lao, Latin, Latvian, Lingala, Lithuanian, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Malagasy, Malay, Malayalam, Maltese, Marathi, Mongolian, Māori, Nepali, Norwegian, Norwegian Nynorsk, Occitan, Pashto, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Sanskrit, Serbian, Shona, Sindhi, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Tajik, Tamil, Tatar, Telugu, Thai, Tibetan, Turkish, Turkmen, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Welsh, Yiddish, Yoruba

The app was made possible thanks to Whisper by OpenAI and whisper.cpp by Georgi Gerganov.

■ FAQ

‣ Can I edit the text in the app?

I don't plan to support any editing. Export the transcription and edit it in a proper text editor.

‣ Why is the app so large?

The app delivers the highest quality transcription on the market for 100 different languages. Rather than asking why it's so large, the real question is how is it so small.

■ Technical details

The app uses the Whisper large v2 model.

■ Support

You can contact me through the feedback button in the app or at sindresorhus@gmail.com

Version

1.0.4

Free or Paid

Free

Apple Watch Support

No

Device(s) App Was Tested On

iPhone

iOS Version

16.4

Accessibility Comments

Very accessible and easy to use.

VoiceOver Performance

VoiceOver reads all page elements.

Button Labeling

All buttons are clearly labeled.

Usability

The app is fully accessible with VoiceOver and is easy to navigate and use.

Other Comments

The process is simple as there isn't much in the way of an interface. Just select an audio and off it goes. There are several export options to choose from. There is the option to have the transcription in one giant blog of text or several other formats that offers the timestamp. Note that the transcription does not offer in any way of punctuation or formatting. It also doesn't offer of any way to break things up like different people speaking separately. I thought the accuracy is good, but the formatting is to least to be desire but typical of any kind of AI transcription output that I've seen.

App Store Link

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/aiko/id1672085276

Developer's Website

https://sindresorhus.com/aiko

Related Podcast

https://www.applevis.com/podcasts/introducing-aiko-powerful-device-transcriptio…

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