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Whisper Dictator transcribes your podcast files locally on Windows. Choose an episode, watch the progress bar, and get a clean transcript you can shape into show notes, a blog post, or captions. Nothing uploads, and nothing is billed by the minute.
Windows 10/11 (64-bit) · Paid feature, current promotion active
Two years of episodes, and not one has a transcript. Every set of show notes written from scratch, every blog post skipped because pulling quotes by ear takes an hour per episode.
Otter, Rev, and Descript process your episodes on their servers. For an unreleased interview or a raw cut you have not published yet, that is a copy of your work sitting somewhere else.
Rev charges around $0.25 per minute for AI transcription. A weekly 45-minute show is a bill that grows with every release, and clearing the whole archive is off the table.
Whisper Dictator runs the entire transcription on your machine. Choose an episode file and the app transcribes it locally, then hands back a transcript you can copy or save as a .txt for show notes, a blog draft, or captions. Nothing uploads. Nothing is billed by the minute. Podcasts are only the start: the same local engine handles any audio or video file on your disk.
Everything you need to turn an episode into show notes, a blog post, and captions, without a subscription.
Audio: mp3, m4a, wav, flac, ogg, opus, aac, wma. Video: mp4, mov, mkv, webm, avi. Export your episode however your editor saves it and choose the file.
No per-minute fee, no monthly cap. Clear your whole back catalog and every new release, after one payment.
After setup, transcription runs with no internet. Your episodes and unreleased cuts never leave the computer.
A two-hour interview 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, then shape it into show notes, a blog draft, or a captions file. Nothing is retained by a third party.
Auto-detect plus explicit presets for English, Portuguese, Spanish, French, German, and Italian, for shows and guests in any of them.
Open Whisper Dictator and pick the episode file from disk. No account, no upload queue, no waiting for a cloud worker.
A progress bar shows the transcription running locally. Close the window and it keeps working in the background while you edit the audio.
When it finishes, the transcript appears in a result window. Copy it to the clipboard or save it as a .txt, ready for show notes, a blog post, or captions.
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, so an unreleased episode or a raw interview cut stays with you. This is the default and the only mode.
On clean audio, it is on par: a well-recorded episode transcribes cleanly. Better still, any file you keep can be re-transcribed later at no extra cost as the app improves, so a transcript from today is not the best you will ever get from that recording.
Yes. There is no per-minute fee and no monthly cap, so a two-year archive costs the same as one episode: nothing beyond your plan. Very long files are processed in chunks so memory stays stable.
Annual $39.99 per year or Lifetime $99 one-time. Both unlock unlimited episode transcription. A promotion may be active at launch, so check the pricing above.
Audio: mp3, m4a, wav, flac, ogg, opus, aac, wma. Video: mp4, mov, mkv, webm, avi. Export your episode in whatever your editor produces and choose the file.
Not today. Speaker labeling (diarization) is not offered, so the transcript is one continuous text. It is complete and searchable, and it pairs with your existing tools when you need per-guest attribution for a two-host show or an interview.
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