https://thinkscribe.ai/en/guides How-to guides and articles on on-device transcription, voice typing and local AI on Apple devices. en Thu, 03 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT https://thinkscribe.ai/en/blog/whisper-vs-parakeet https://thinkscribe.ai/en/blog/whisper-vs-parakeet Sun, 30 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Speech models Whisper vs Parakeet TDT compared in plain words: architecture, speed, languages, accuracy, hallucinations and when to pick which on-device speech to text model. https://thinkscribe.ai/en/guides/voice-typing-mac-whisper-hotkey https://thinkscribe.ai/en/guides/voice-typing-mac-whisper-hotkey Sun, 30 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Voice typing Whisper dictation on a Mac, built by hand: record with ffmpeg on a hotkey, transcribe with whisper-cli, paste at the cursor. Hammerspoon, Shortcuts or Raycast. https://thinkscribe.ai/en/guides/voice-typing-mac-setup https://thinkscribe.ai/en/guides/voice-typing-mac-setup Sun, 30 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Voice typing How to set up voice typing on Mac. Turn on Apple Dictation, understand its limits, then dictate into any app with a global hotkey that runs on-device. https://thinkscribe.ai/en/guides/voice-typing-any-app-mac-thinkscribe https://thinkscribe.ai/en/guides/voice-typing-any-app-mac-thinkscribe Sun, 30 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Voice typing How to dictate into Mail, Slack, a browser or your editor on a Mac: the Option-Space shortcut, the floating voice bar, Escape to cancel, and rewrites. https://thinkscribe.ai/en/guides/voice-memos-transcription-iphone-mac https://thinkscribe.ai/en/guides/voice-memos-transcription-iphone-mac Thu, 03 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT iPhone How to see, search and copy a Voice Memos transcript on iPhone and Mac, which devices and languages Apple supports, and what to do when you need more. https://thinkscribe.ai/en/guides/voice-journaling-on-device https://thinkscribe.ai/en/guides/voice-journaling-on-device Sun, 30 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT iPhone How to keep a spoken journal on iPhone, Apple Watch or Mac, why an on-device transcript matters for something this private, and how to find an old entry. https://thinkscribe.ai/en/guides/transcribe-whatsapp-voice-notes-iphone https://thinkscribe.ai/en/guides/transcribe-whatsapp-voice-notes-iphone Sun, 30 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT iPhone Three ways to transcribe WhatsApp voice messages on iPhone. WhatsApp's own transcripts, Voice Memos, and a share-to-app route that works offline for any audio. https://thinkscribe.ai/en/guides/transcribe-voice-messages https://thinkscribe.ai/en/guides/transcribe-voice-messages Sun, 30 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT iPhone How to turn a long voice message into text you can skim, search and quote, why long voice notes are the real problem, and how it works with no connection. https://thinkscribe.ai/en/guides/transcribe-video-to-text https://thinkscribe.ai/en/guides/transcribe-video-to-text Sun, 30 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Import Get text out of an MP4 or MOV: importing video, batch transcribing a folder on Mac, exporting SRT or VTT captions, and how it compares with auto-captions. https://thinkscribe.ai/en/guides/transcribe-research-interviews https://thinkscribe.ai/en/guides/transcribe-research-interviews Thu, 03 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT Transcription Interview transcription for research: verbatim or intelligent verbatim, speaker labels, anonymising as you go, and getting the file into your analysis tool. https://thinkscribe.ai/en/guides/transcribe-lectures-study-notes https://thinkscribe.ai/en/guides/transcribe-lectures-study-notes Thu, 03 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT Transcription Record the lecture on a phone or laptop, get a transcript you can search, and turn it into summaries, key points and questions you can revise from before the exam. https://thinkscribe.ai/en/guides/transcribe-audio-to-text-mac https://thinkscribe.ai/en/guides/transcribe-audio-to-text-mac Sun, 30 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Mac Three ways to transcribe audio to text on a Mac without uploading anything: Apple's built-in tools, whisper.cpp in Terminal, and a one-step on-device app. https://thinkscribe.ai/en/guides/sync-transcripts-iphone-mac-icloud https://thinkscribe.ai/en/guides/sync-transcripts-iphone-mac-icloud Sun, 30 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Sync How to turn on iCloud sync for transcripts, what moves between iPhone, iPad and Mac, what stays put, and how deletion and recovery work across devices. https://thinkscribe.ai/en/guides/summarize-transcripts-local-llm-mac https://thinkscribe.ai/en/guides/summarize-transcripts-local-llm-mac Sun, 30 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Mac Summarize a transcript locally on your Mac with Ollama: install, pull a model, a working prompt, chunking long transcripts, and a one-tap alternative. https://thinkscribe.ai/en/guides/summarize-and-ask-transcripts-thinkscribe https://thinkscribe.ai/en/guides/summarize-and-ask-transcripts-thinkscribe Sun, 30 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT AI assistant Turn a transcript into an on-device meeting summary, action items, minutes or a mind map, and ask questions that are answered with citations. https://thinkscribe.ai/en/guides/srt-subtitles-from-audio-mac https://thinkscribe.ai/en/guides/srt-subtitles-from-audio-mac Sun, 30 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Transcription Create SRT or VTT subtitles from an audio file on a Mac with ffmpeg and whisper.cpp, fix the timing and line breaks, then get the same file in one step. https://thinkscribe.ai/en/guides/speaker-names-thinkscribe https://thinkscribe.ai/en/guides/speaker-names-thinkscribe Sun, 30 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Speakers How speaker identification works in ThinkScribe: name Speaker 1 once, enroll a colleague, fix a wrong label, and merge duplicate speakers. https://thinkscribe.ai/en/guides/speaker-diarization-mac-local https://thinkscribe.ai/en/guides/speaker-diarization-mac-local Sun, 30 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Speakers Speaker diarization on a Mac, fully local: whisperX with --diarize, pyannote.audio aligned to whisper.cpp output, and FluidAudio on Core ML, with common errors. https://thinkscribe.ai/en/blog/speaker-diarization-explained https://thinkscribe.ai/en/blog/speaker-diarization-explained Sun, 30 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Transcription Speaker diarization explained in plain words: how software splits audio by speaker, matches voices across recordings, where it fails, and how to help it. https://thinkscribe.ai/en/guides/sermon-transcription-guide https://thinkscribe.ai/en/guides/sermon-transcription-guide Sun, 30 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Transcription A practical sermon transcription guide: how to record in a sanctuary, transcribe a sermon to text on a Mac or iPhone, label Q&A speakers, and publish it. https://thinkscribe.ai/en/guides/run-whisper-locally-mac https://thinkscribe.ai/en/guides/run-whisper-locally-mac Sun, 30 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Speech models Run Whisper locally on a Mac with whisper.cpp: install, model download, ffmpeg conversion to 16 kHz WAV, output formats, Apple Silicon notes and common errors. https://thinkscribe.ai/en/guides/record-zoom-teams-meetings-mac-system-audio https://thinkscribe.ai/en/guides/record-zoom-teams-meetings-mac-system-audio Sun, 30 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Mac How to record a Zoom or Teams meeting on a Mac with system audio: Zoom local recording, QuickTime with BlackHole, or an app that captures the call directly. https://thinkscribe.ai/en/guides/record-meeting-mac-thinkscribe https://thinkscribe.ai/en/guides/record-meeting-mac-thinkscribe Sun, 30 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Meetings How to record both sides of a video call on a Mac with ThinkScribe using System audio capture, with no bot joining the meeting and nothing uploaded. https://thinkscribe.ai/en/blog/private-medical-legal-dictation https://thinkscribe.ai/en/blog/private-medical-legal-dictation Sun, 30 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Privacy Why clinicians and lawyers need a private medical dictation app or legal dictation software that keeps audio on the device, and what to check with compliance. https://thinkscribe.ai/en/guides/podcast-transcription-show-notes https://thinkscribe.ai/en/guides/podcast-transcription-show-notes Thu, 03 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT Transcription A repeatable workflow for podcast transcription: clean speaker-labelled text, show notes and chapter markers, subtitles for the video cut, all from one recording. https://thinkscribe.ai/en/blog/on-device-vs-cloud-transcription https://thinkscribe.ai/en/blog/on-device-vs-cloud-transcription Sun, 30 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Privacy What on-device transcription means technically, what cloud services do with your audio, the per-minute billing math, and the cases where cloud still wins. https://thinkscribe.ai/en/blog/offline-speech-to-text-iphone-how-it-works https://thinkscribe.ai/en/blog/offline-speech-to-text-iphone-how-it-works Sun, 30 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT iPhone Offline speech recognition on iPhone: Apple's on-device dictation, the iOS 26 SpeechAnalyzer API, Whisper models, and why keyboard extensions cannot use the mic. https://thinkscribe.ai/en/blog/mac-memory-for-local-transcription-and-llm https://thinkscribe.ai/en/blog/mac-memory-for-local-transcription-and-llm Sun, 30 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Mac How much RAM a Mac needs for Whisper, Parakeet and a local LLM: unified memory, model sizes by quantization, KV cache growth, and 8, 16, 32 and 64 GB budgets. https://thinkscribe.ai/en/blog/live-captions-and-transcripts-accessibility https://thinkscribe.ai/en/blog/live-captions-and-transcripts-accessibility Sun, 30 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Accessibility How live captions and recorded transcripts solve different problems for deaf and hard of hearing people, where each one helps, and what this kind of app is not. https://thinkscribe.ai/en/guides/import-audio-video-files-thinkscribe https://thinkscribe.ai/en/guides/import-audio-video-files-thinkscribe Sun, 30 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Import How to transcribe an audio or video file on Mac, iPhone or iPad: importing, drag and drop, the share sheet, batch imports, language and engine. https://thinkscribe.ai/en/guides/get-started-thinkscribe-mac https://thinkscribe.ai/en/guides/get-started-thinkscribe-mac Sun, 30 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Getting started Install ThinkScribe on your Mac, grant the two permissions it needs, and make your first voice typing, recording and file import in about five minutes. https://thinkscribe.ai/en/guides/get-started-thinkscribe-iphone https://thinkscribe.ai/en/guides/get-started-thinkscribe-iphone Sun, 30 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Getting started Set up ThinkScribe on your iPhone or iPad, turn on the voice typing keyboard, make your first recording, and share an audio file from another app to transcribe it. https://thinkscribe.ai/en/guides/export-transcripts-thinkscribe https://thinkscribe.ai/en/guides/export-transcripts-thinkscribe Sun, 30 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Export Export a transcript to PDF, Word, SRT, VTT, JSON, Markdown or text, share it, send summaries to Apple Notes, or auto-export every new one. https://thinkscribe.ai/en/guides/custom-vocabulary-thinkscribe https://thinkscribe.ai/en/guides/custom-vocabulary-thinkscribe Sun, 30 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Voice typing How to add names, product words and jargon to ThinkScribe's custom vocabulary on Mac and iPhone, and what biasing can and cannot fix. https://thinkscribe.ai/en/blog/cloud-transcription-api-costs https://thinkscribe.ai/en/blog/cloud-transcription-api-costs Sun, 30 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Transcription Cloud transcription API pricing per hour of audio: verified batch and streaming list prices, worked annual costs, and the charges not in the rate. https://thinkscribe.ai/en/guides/apple-watch-recording-thinkscribe https://thinkscribe.ai/en/guides/apple-watch-recording-thinkscribe Sun, 30 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Apple Watch How to use the Apple Watch voice recorder in ThinkScribe: record from your wrist, transcribe on iPhone, and fix a recording that says Not sent. https://thinkscribe.ai/en/blog/whisper-hallucinations-repetition-loops https://thinkscribe.ai/en/blog/whisper-hallucinations-repetition-loops Sun, 30 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Speech models Whisper hallucination and repetition loops explained: why silence becomes 'Thank you for watching' and the whisper.cpp, openai-whisper and faster-whisper fixes. https://thinkscribe.ai/en/guides/self-host-transcription-server https://thinkscribe.ai/en/guides/self-host-transcription-server Sun, 30 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Transcription Self-hosted speech to text: three ways to run a transcription server on hardware you own, with auth, TLS, GPU sizing, throughput numbers and the honest running cost. https://thinkscribe.ai/en/guides/run-parakeet-locally-apple-silicon https://thinkscribe.ai/en/guides/run-parakeet-locally-apple-silicon Sun, 30 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Speech models Run NVIDIA Parakeet TDT 0.6B locally on a Mac: parakeet-mlx CLI and API, FluidAudio Core ML, NeMo on CPU, speed vs Whisper, the 25 v3 languages and errors. https://thinkscribe.ai/en/guides/offline-dictation-iphone-keyboard https://thinkscribe.ai/en/guides/offline-dictation-iphone-keyboard Sun, 30 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT iPhone Set up offline dictation on iPhone. See which Apple keyboard dictation languages run on-device, then add a voice typing keyboard that works with no connection. https://thinkscribe.ai/en/guides/meeting-notes-pipeline https://thinkscribe.ai/en/guides/meeting-notes-pipeline Sun, 30 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Meetings Automatic meeting notes workflow on a Mac: capture the audio, transcribe to JSON with timestamps, summarize to Markdown, and file a note with front matter. https://thinkscribe.ai/en/guides/cloud-dictation-hotkey-mac https://thinkscribe.ai/en/guides/cloud-dictation-hotkey-mac Sun, 30 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Voice typing Cloud dictation on a Mac, built by hand: record with ffmpeg on a hotkey, POST the clip to a transcription API, paste at the cursor. Script, keychain, latency.