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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. Nothing leaves your device.
You can export the transcription as subtitles too. It has a word-replacement feature to let you automatically fix common mistakes.
Aiko favors accuracy over speed.
It does not do live transcription while recording.
It does not currently have speaker detection.
Try the trial first. See website.
Note: Sharing from Voice Memos on iOS 26 does not work because of a iOS 26 bug outside of my control.
Supports audio in 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.
‣ Why is the transcription so slow?
The app favors accuracy over speed. However, performance is expected to improve in the coming months.
‣ Why must I keep the iOS app open while it transcribes?
iOS apps are fundamentally restricted from operating in the background for extended periods.
‣ Can I delete some of the languages to save space?
This is unfortunately not possible. The model has all the languages stored together in a way that makes it impossible to remove just some languages.
More FAQs on the website.
■ Technical details
The app uses the Whisper medium or small model on iOS depending on available memory and the large v3 model on macOS.
■ Privacy
The transcription is done locally on your device. Nothing leaves your device.
■ Support
You can contact me through the feedback button in the app.
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What is Aiko?
Aiko is a digital product or tool described as: Sindre Sorhus
Where did Aiko originate?
Data for Aiko was aggregated directly from the Apple App Store community ecosystem, representing raw developer and early-adopter sentiment.
When was Aiko publicly launched?
The initial public indexing or launch date for Aiko within our tracked developer communities was recorded on March 3, 2023.
How popular is Aiko?
Aiko has achieved measurable traction, logging over 320 reviews and facilitating 5 recorded discussions or engagements.
Which technical categories define Aiko?
Based on metadata extraction, Aiko is categorized under topics such as: Productivity, Business.
Is Aiko recognized by media or academic researchers?
Yes. It has been covered by media outlets like Github.com. This indicates the concept has reached a level of mainstream or scientific viability beyond just developer forums.
What are some commercial alternatives to Aiko?
Our semantic intelligence engine identifies potential commercial alternatives in the SaaS space, such as Otto by Audos.com, which offers overlapping value propositions.
Are there open-source alternatives related to Aiko?
Yes, the GitHub ecosystem contains correlated projects. For example, a repository named fikrikarim/parlor shares highly similar architectural descriptions and topics.
How does the creator describe Aiko?
The original author or development team describes the product as follows: "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. Nothing leav..."
Community Voice & Feedback
Honestly one of my only reviews. Your app is very good and the fact that you provide shortcuts to batch multiple files is a nice touch.
Very happy with how well it works on my Mac mini M1.
Not a big deal but preferred the old robot icon instead of this boring bar icon that looks like 5000 other apps with bar icons and looks designed by a toddler with crayons.
Apple is busy nerfing and making their own icons horrible and boring, no need for 3rd party developers to follow Apple’s lead, Apple’s “design” has been leading only on the frontiers of the ugly over the past year.
Apple is busy nerfing and making their own icons horrible and boring, no need for 3rd party developers to follow Apple’s lead, Apple’s “design” has been leading only on the frontiers of the ugly over the past year.
Does an excellent job and has never failed. Kudos
Best transciption app I’ve come across. Does just what it says on the tin, locally, privately.
I’ve purchased the app for an important event when I needed a transcribing service urgently. And it failed me completely.
All I would get was a repeat first sentence under a different time stamp.
What a disappointment. Paid disappointment
All I would get was a repeat first sentence under a different time stamp.
What a disappointment. Paid disappointment
It used to work properly, but recently it fails to even start on my computer. I constantly see Application not responding the from the moment I try to open the app. Quitting, restarting my computer all don’t work so the app is basically unusable at the moment
Just be forewarned, it isn’t until after you purchase the app that you’re notified that it doesn’t work well with Intel Macs. It’s terribly slow (10 hours to transcribe an hour meeting)
I like this app for its simplicity in use
Aiko is great and I use it all the time, however time has marched on and it could be updated to the Whisper Large v3 Turbo MLX and thereby save several gigs of memory!
I use this primarily with an Olympus DM-720 dictation recorder. So far it has worked perfectly and pretty fast (MacBook Pro M4 Max). I use the recorder when walking/hiking with my dog, so at times there is background noise, and it hasn’t had a problem. (the recorder is designed to do this which also helps). I am disappointed it does not have an AppleScript dictionary although it does have an Actions palette. I’m a long time coder in many languages and have used AppleScript for many tasks including a full interface with Apple Mail using Clojure and PostgreSQL as the backend. It can be done by calling shortcuts from AppleScript but that’s a kludge.
This does a great job with transcription. I use it daily for my creative writing. It works much better if you use audacity to clean up the background noice then truncate silence to get rid of large gaps between speech, if you have any. Other than that, it’s awesome. Recommended
Sindre: amazing 👑 Thank you from the world!
This VTT is by far the most accurate you won! your next mission is to add TTS
Amazing app, no tracking and no subscription. Just a great tool.
Discovery Source
Apple App Store Aggregated via automated community intelligence tracking.
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