talat

talat is a local transcription app for Mac and Windows that acts as an AI note-taker for meetings, voice dictation, and audio or video recordings. It captures both sides of a conversation using dual-stream capture and transcribes in real time, entirely on the user's own computer, so nothing spoken is uploaded or stored on external servers. Meetings can be recorded from calendar events (Apple, Google, and Outlook calendars) or started automatically when Zoom, Microsoft Teams, or Google Meet calls begin. Features include speaker identification that learns voices over time, AI-generated summaries, action items and chapters using a built-in or cloud LLM, and searchable history of notes.

For dictation, a global hotkey lets users speak into any application, with on-device speech models, optional LLM cleanup of punctuation and filler words, auto-paste into the focused app, and a locally saved history of raw and cleaned dictations. Users can also import existing audio or video files (WAV, MP3, M4A, MP4, FLAC, OGG, AAC) and get the same transcription pipeline, speaker detection, and custom vocabulary support, with exports to their own tools and access via an MCP assistant.

talat is aimed at professionals, teams, and anyone handling sensitive conversations who want transcription and meeting notes without sending audio to third-party servers. It offers 10 hours free, no account required, and monthly, yearly, or one-time payment options.