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Whisper Dictator turns a recorded interview into text on your own Windows machine. Choose the file, watch the progress bar, and get a transcript you can copy or save. The audio stays on your device, so your sources stay protected.
Windows 10/11 (64-bit) · Paid feature, current promotion active
A 90-minute phone interview recorded on your iPhone, a field recording, an off-record conversation you need to reference but never publish. Sending any of it to a stranger's server is a decision you would have to defend later.
Most transcription services process your files on their servers. For a confidential interview, that means your source's voice sits on infrastructure you do not control.
Instead of risking it, you scrub back and forth for hours, typing what you hear. The interview gets done, but the day is gone.
Whisper Dictator runs the entire transcription on your machine. Choose the interview file and the app transcribes it locally, then hands back a transcript you can copy or save as a .txt. The audio stays on your device. Nothing uploads, and nothing is billed by the minute.
Everything you need to turn a recorded interview into text, without putting your source on someone else's server.
The interview never uploads. It is processed on your machine and nowhere else, which is what source protection actually requires.
No per-minute fee, no monthly cap. Transcribe as many interviews as your machine can process, after one payment.
Audio: mp3, m4a, wav, flac, ogg, opus, aac, wma. Video: mp4, mov, mkv, webm, avi. Choose the file your recorder produced and go.
A three-hour sit-down is processed in chunks so memory stays stable. No hard length limit is imposed by the app.
Copy the text or save it as a .txt file. Nothing is retained by a third party, so no copy of your interview lives anywhere but your disk.
Auto-detect plus explicit presets for English, Portuguese, Spanish, French, German, and Italian, for interviews recorded in the field.
Open Whisper Dictator and pick your recording from disk. No account, no upload queue, no waiting for a cloud worker to get to your file.
A progress bar shows the transcription running locally. Close the window and it keeps working in the background while you do something else.
When it finishes, the transcript appears in a result window. Copy it to the clipboard or save it as a .txt file.
How local file transcription compares to Otter, Rev, and Descript. The gaps are named honestly, not hidden.
| Capability | Whisper Dictator | Otter | Rev (AI) | Descript |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Runs entirely on your machine | ✓ | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ |
| Your content stays private | ✓ | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ |
| No per-minute or monthly cap | ✓ | ✕ | ✕ | ~ |
| One-time price option | ✓ | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ |
| Unlimited hours | ✓ | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ |
| Speaker labels (who said what) | ✕ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Subtitle export (SRT/VTT) | ~ | ~ | ✓ | ✓ |
File transcription is part of the paid plan. Start free to try dictation, upgrade to transcribe files.
Try voice dictation first
~$3.33/month, billed annually
Pay once, transcribe forever. No renewals.
No. The file is processed by the app on your machine. Nothing uploads. This is the default and the only mode, which is exactly what makes it safe for confidential sources.
It runs. There is no minute cap and no re-upload if your network drops, because nothing is uploaded in the first place. Very long recordings are processed in chunks so memory stays stable.
Strong on clean recordings and workable across many languages. Field recordings with background noise are harder, so plan to review the transcript, but it saves you the hours of typing from scratch.
Yes. The transcript is a local file you keep or delete. Nothing is retained by a third party, so a reference-only transcript never has to exist anywhere but your disk.
Audio: mp3, m4a, wav, flac, ogg, opus, aac, wma. Video: mp4, mov, mkv, webm, avi. Choose the file and the app handles the rest. For a general walkthrough, see how to transcribe any audio file.
Annual $39.99 per year or Lifetime $99 one-time. Both unlock unlimited interview transcription. A promotion may be active at launch, so check the pricing above.
Choose a file, get an accurate transcript, and keep it. No upload, no per-minute fee, on your own Windows PC.
Download for WindowsWindows 10/11 · Paid feature · 14-day refund