Guides
What we have learned about turning recordings into text without handing them to anyone — including the parts that make this tool look worse than the alternatives. Written for people, not for search engines, though they are welcome too.
How accurate is browser transcription, really?
An honest account of what a quantized Whisper model gets right and wrong, why the paid services still beat it on hard audio, and how to tell which you need.
How to clean up a machine transcript quickly
A practical editing pass that turns automatic output into something publishable — what to fix, in what order, and what to deliberately leave alone.
How to verify nothing is uploaded (don't take our word for it)
Four ways to check for yourself that your recording never leaves your device — from a ten-second test to reading the network log properly.
How transcription in a browser actually works
What happens between dropping a file in and reading a transcript — the model, the spectrogram, the 30-second windows, and why the first run downloads 81 MB.
SRT vs VTT — which subtitle format do you need?
The practical differences between SubRip and WebVTT, which players accept what, and the line-length rules that separate readable subtitles from a wall of text.
Transcription and confidentiality — the questions worth asking
What actually happens to a recording you upload to a transcription service, which questions to ask before you do, and where local processing does and doesn't help.