Transcribe Office Recordings Locally

Q: Is my recording uploaded?

No. Audio decoding, resampling, Whisper inference, transcript persistence, and export run locally in your browser, and content is excluded from analytics.

Q: Is this the same as FilmJoy's subtitle or lyrics workflow?

No. This is a BaseToolbox office workflow for recordings, voice memos, interviews, timestamped transcripts, and meeting-note handoff. FilmJoy belongs to a separate player and media-search product context.

Q: Does the stronger transcription model belong only to this page?

No. Fast and accurate Whisper tiers are registered once in the global local AI provider. Audio transcription and meeting workflows share the same queue, model cache, device policy, and cancellation behavior.

Q: Will refreshing download Whisper again?

Normally no. Verified weights are cached by immutable model version and reused after refresh or browser restart. The in-memory ASR pipeline may be released and rebuilt from cached weights according to device memory policy.

Audio

Transcript

Private browser-local transcription

Audio decoding, resampling, Whisper inference, timestamps, saved sessions, and exports run in your browser. Recordings and transcript text are excluded from BaseToolbox analytics.

Current limitations

The browser must be able to decode the file's audio codec; support varies for MP3, WAV, M4A, AAC, OGG, WebM, and MP4 containers.
The MVP is batch transcription, not guaranteed real-time transcription, and does not promise speaker diarization.
Recognition accuracy varies with noise, accents, overlapping speakers, names, numbers, and specialist vocabulary.
Verified model weights normally stay cached after refresh, but clearing site data, private browsing, model-version changes, integrity failures, or browser eviction can require another download.

How local recording transcription works

Upload or record audio

Choose a browser-decodable file or grant microphone permission and record an office voice note.

Decode and transcribe locally

The browser mixes channels, resamples to 16 kHz mono, and lazily loads the selected shared Whisper tier through the global inference queue.

Review, export, or create notes

Check timestamped text, export TXT, Markdown, SRT, or VTT, or hand the transcript to a separate meeting-notes session.

Local audio transcription FAQ

Is my recording uploaded?

Is this the same as FilmJoy's subtitle or lyrics workflow?

Does the stronger transcription model belong only to this page?

Will refreshing download Whisper again?

Create decisions and action items from a meeting transcript Summarize text with source references

How local recording transcription works

Upload or record audio

Choose a browser-decodable file or grant microphone permission and record an office voice note.

Decode and transcribe locally

The browser mixes channels, resamples to 16 kHz mono, and lazily loads the selected shared Whisper tier through the global inference queue.

Review, export, or create notes

Check timestamped text, export TXT, Markdown, SRT, or VTT, or hand the transcript to a separate meeting-notes session.

Local Audio to Text

How local recording transcription works

Upload or record audio

Decode and transcribe locally

Review, export, or create notes

Local audio transcription FAQ

Local Audio to Text

How local recording transcription works

Upload or record audio

Decode and transcribe locally

Review, export, or create notes

Local audio transcription FAQ

How local recording transcription works

Upload or record audio

Decode and transcribe locally

Review, export, or create notes

Local audio transcription FAQ

Related office writing tools

How local recording transcription works

Upload or record audio

Decode and transcribe locally

Review, export, or create notes

Local audio transcription FAQ

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