00:00 · THE PROBLEM

Transcribe meetings locally on your Mac

Most meeting notetakers upload your audio to a server the moment you stop recording — your voice and everyone else's, sent somewhere to be turned into text. That's a round trip you have no control over, and it needs a working internet connection just to get a transcript.

TinyScribe transcribes with Apple's SpeechAnalyzer, the speech recognition framework built into macOS. It runs on-device, on your Mac's own hardware, and it works fully offline — turn off Wi-Fi mid-meeting and the transcript keeps coming.

10:00 · HOW IT WORKS

On-device speech recognition, honestly scoped

  • Apple's SpeechAnalyzer processes your microphone and system audio directly on your Mac's Apple silicon chip.
  • No network request is involved in turning audio into text — it works on a plane, on a train, or with the Mac fully offline.
  • The transcript is saved on your Mac. If you use iCloud, it syncs through your own private iCloud database, not through us.

Transcription happens on your Mac. Summaries go through Apple's Private Cloud Compute, where nothing is stored and nothing is used for training.

That's the honest split: transcription is local and offline, but the optional summary step is a separate, later stage that needs a network connection. If you want the full picture of where every byte goes — audio, transcript, and summary — see exactly where your meeting data goes.

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See how this compares to a cloud-processing notetaker: TinyScribe vs Granola