About
Quiet Transcript records or opens a recording in your browser, transcribes it there with Whisper AI, and plays it back beside the transcript so you can check and correct the draft. Your audio is never uploaded.
What it is for
Recordings that carry an obligation: a journalist’s source, a lawyer’s client, a clinician’s patient, an HR investigation. For these, keeping the audio on your own device is the only sensible way to do the work — and it is also a fast, free way to turn any voice memo or video into text.
What it is not
- It does not work out who is speaking; you type the speaker labels.
- It is not a translator: it transcribes in the language that was spoken.
- It is not a certified transcript: what comes out is a draft to check against the recording.
Languages
Ninety-nine, including Russian, Ukrainian, Spanish, German, French, Portuguese, Arabic, Hindi, Mandarin, Japanese, Korean and Turkish. The language is worked out from the first thirty seconds, printed beside the transcript, and you can change it. English is strongest; a larger, better model is offered on the tool page for an extra 80 MB.
What is kept, and where
Your audio stays on your device. Your browser caches the speech model (about 71 MB), and keeps a recording only if you press Keep on this device. If you sign in and press Save to my account, the text of that transcript is kept in your account, where you can share it by expiring link or delete it. Privacy says exactly what is stored and how to delete it.
How it is paid for
By one advertisement, at the foot of the home page, from Google AdSense; the dedicated tool pages carry none. It sits below everything, never beside a control, and is fetched only if you scroll to it. Your recording, your transcript and your corrections are no part of it.
We are also testing interest in a Pro plan for the two things a device cannot do on its own: keeping recordings in the cloud and transcribing on a server when a phone is too slow. It is not open, and nothing is charged.
Editorial policy
The pages on this site describe what the tool does. They are written from the tool’s own behaviour. The figures they quote, such as the download size and the subtitle reading-speed guides, are taken from the code that applies them. The guide is the long form of that description, and the page to read if you want to know exactly how each step works.
A short list of statements about the product, for example that your audio is never uploaded, is kept in a claims list. An automated check confirms that each statement still appears on the page it belongs to, and each entry carries a date after which it is due for review.
The transcript the tool produces is an automatic draft. This site does not claim that it is certified, sworn or verbatim, that it tells speakers apart, or that it translates. Check the draft against the recording before you rely on it.
If a page is wrong or out of date, write to support@quiettranscript.com and say which page and what is wrong. A correction is made on the page itself, and the sitemap carries the date each page last changed.
Who runs it
Quiet Transcript is operated by AIErudit. Reach us at support@quiettranscript.com.