Files and links
Drop in a file, or paste a linkplanned
Drag in audio and video, or paste a YouTube link. Recordings several hours long are transcribed in windows, with speakers kept apart across them.
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In developmentmacOS 15+ · Apple silicon
Your meetings, transcribed on your Mac
Local transcription with speakers, summaries and chat for meetings, recordings, files and links. No bot joins your call; nothing leaves the Mac.
- Every model runs on your Mac with MLX
- No bot in your meetings, no cloud account
- $29 once, or in the $39 bundle
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Features
Meeting notes that never leave your Mac
Meetings
Meeting notes without a botplanned
Dicta records your side and the other participants straight from Zoom, Teams, Meet, Slack or any app, with no bot in the call. It can spot a meeting starting and name it from your calendar.
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On-device transcription
Who said what, in one passplanned
Standard transcription tells speakers apart as it transcribes, fast transcription keeps up with long files, and multilingual transcription covers the rest. Dicta picks the right model for the language.
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The transcript
Read, edit and search everything you heardplanned
A player with the waveform and speaker lanes, the video beside the text, speakers to rename and merge, bookmarks, tags and search across your library.
- Export to SRT, VTT, Markdown, CSV, JSON and plain text
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AI on your Mac
Summaries, action items and answersplanned
A summary is written as soon as a transcript is ready: key points, decisions and action items. Use your own templates, chat with a transcript, ask across your whole library, or translate it.
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Live captions
Captions and translation, liveplanned
A floating caption bar shows what is said as it is said, with a translation underneath if you like, and a final transcript once the meeting ends.
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Privacy
Nothing you record leaves your Mac
Every model runs on the Mac with MLX. There is no bot, no cloud account and no upload.
- 01Transcription, speakers, summaries and chat run on your Mac's GPU.
- 02Your recordings, transcripts and calendar stay on this Mac.
- 03Dicta only connects to download models once, fetch links you paste and check for updates.
- 04No usage data, crash reports or identifiers.
Requirements
- macOS
- 15 or later
- Chip
- Apple silicon
- Memory
- To be confirmed (16 GB recommended)
- Disk
- To be confirmed (models download once)
- Languages
- English, 简体中文
Permissions
Microphone
To record your side of a meeting and your recordings.
System audio
To record the other participants from the meeting app.
Calendars
Optional: to name meetings after your events. Your calendar never leaves your Mac.
FAQ
Questions
When the first version is ready. Leave your email and we will tell you. Bundle buyers get Dicta as soon as it is out.
Dicta, $29 once
Dicta is in development. Leave your email and we will tell you when the first build is out.
Dicta is in development. Leave your email and we will tell you when the first build is out.