Cloud services charge by the minute and read your audio on their servers. Vertano does the same work locally, for nothing. Here is the full case.
Your audio and transcripts are processed and stored locally, every time. Airplane mode works just fine.
Point it at a year of voice memos. Vertano queues everything, works through the list, and skips duplicates automatically.
First-class Urdu support with one-tap translation to English, or keep the original script. 100 languages in total.
wav, mp3, m4a, flac, opus, voice memos, even the audio from your videos.
Open source. No account, no trial, no meter. The speech model downloads once and is yours to keep, in whichever size you choose.
Batches that would cost hours of upload time finish while you make tea.
Auto-generated captions download with every line doubled. Drop the .srt or .vtt on Vertano and get a clean, correctly timed track, plus translated versions ready to re-upload.
Three recommended models — Efficient, Enhanced, Maximum — or open the full catalog of 20+ Whisper models, from tiny to large-v3, including English-only and compressed builds.
Check as many target languages as you like. Every transcript is saved once per language, translated on your device by Apple's language packs.
Live recordings are saved under their opening words — “Meeting Q3 budget review.wav” — so a folder of transcripts is browsable at a glance, not a wall of timestamps.
A running word count sits under the live transcript while you record, so writers and researchers can see how much they have captured at a glance.
Point Vertano at hundreds of recordings and a filter box keeps the list navigable — type a few letters and the queue narrows to matching file names instantly.
Live recording now streams: a rolling buffer is re-read every second and words lock in only once two passes agree, so text appears fast, firms up as you speak, and never breaks a word at a chunk edge.
A live progress readout in the toolbar shows how many files are done out of the total, and flags any failures, so a long queue never leaves you guessing.
While you record, a live readout shows the running word count and an estimated reading time, so writers and researchers know exactly how much they have captured.
Record lectures, meetings, and interviews without watching the clock: the timer counts in hours, minutes, and seconds so multi-hour sessions always read correctly.
If a file trips up mid-batch, it is flagged rather than lost. One Retry Failed button re-queues everything that failed, so a transient hiccup never means re-adding files by hand.
While you record, a live words-per-minute readout shows your pace — handy for presenters, podcasters, and interviewers who want to stay in a comfortable range.
Whisper sometimes echoes a word over silence. Vertano quietly trims those runaway loops from the transcript while leaving everything you actually said untouched.
File transcription now runs across all your CPU cores with flash attention, instead of idling on a handful of threads, so a big batch finishes noticeably sooner — accuracy unchanged.
An Open Recordings Folder button jumps straight to where your recordings and transcripts are saved, so you never have to hunt through Finder for them.
Transcripts of videos and music-heavy audio come out clean: standalone sound-effect tags like [Music] and (applause) are stripped automatically, while notes like [inaudible] and everything spoken are kept.
When a model stumbles on silence and echoes the same line over and over, Vertano folds those loops back to a single line, so long recordings do not end with a wall of duplicated text.
Every finished transcript shows its word count and estimated reading time, so you can size up a batch of files without opening a single one.
The toolbar keeps a running total of every word transcribed across the batch, so researchers and writers can see the size of a whole project at a glance.
Copy All puts every finished transcript on your clipboard at once, each under its file name, so a folder of interviews lands in your document in a single paste.
Added the wrong file, or done with a result? Remove any single job with one click — no need to clear everything and start over.
Need your machine back for a moment? Pause processing and the current file finishes before Vertano stops; resume whenever you are ready, right where it left off.
The filter box searches inside transcripts, not just file names — type a phrase and Vertano surfaces every recording that mentions it, turning a folder of interviews into a searchable archive.
Search results show a short excerpt around each hit, right in the list, so you can spot the right recording at a glance without opening a single file.
Each search result shows how many times your term appears in that recording, so the files that dwell on a topic stand out immediately.
Search a term and the bar tells you the totals at once — how many times it comes up and across how many files — so you can gauge a topic's reach over an entire archive.
Filter to a topic and Copy Matching puts just those transcripts on your clipboard, headed by the search term — pull every mention of a subject into one document in a single step.
One Save writes the shown transcripts to a text file, named after your search, so a themed selection becomes a tidy document you can keep, share, or hand off.
Open a search result and every occurrence of your term is highlighted right in the transcript, so you can jump to the moment it was said without reading the whole thing.
Every audio file you transcribe also gets timed .srt and .vtt subtitle files beside its transcript — SRT for video editors, WebVTT for the web and YouTube — ready to drop straight onto a video with no extra step.
Long lines are wrapped to a comfortable caption length instead of dumping a whole sentence on screen at once, so the subtitles are watchable straight out of the box.
Want just the transcript? A single setting turns the subtitle files off, so you get exactly the outputs you need and nothing you don't.
Flip one setting and transcripts save as flowing paragraphs instead of a line per segment, so they read like a document you can hand off — no reformatting.