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What is MacWhisper?

MacWhisper is an all-in-one transcription, meeting recording, and dictation app for Mac users who need to convert speech, media, and meetings into clean text. The app can transcribe lectures, interviews, voice memos, podcasts, YouTube videos, subtitles, app audio, online meetings, and private files. Users can drag and drop files or record meetings in the background from tools such as Zoom, Teams, Webex, Skype, Chime, Discord, and other platforms. MacWhisper records online meetings without requiring a bot to join the call, making the experience more private and less disruptive. Its local AI model support allows sensitive files to be processed offline so data can stay on the user’s Mac. The app supports more than 100 languages and includes features for speaker recognition, accurate transcription, filler-word cleanup, translation, transcript search, built-in editing, and batch processing. Users can export transcripts as subtitles, documents, structured text files, Markdown, PDF, HTML, DOCX, SRT, and VTT depending on the version. MacWhisper also supports real-time system-wide dictation for messages, notes, documents, and app-specific workflows. Its AI features include summaries, chat, ready-to-use prompts, custom prompts, local and cloud models, and connections to services such as OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, Google Gemini, DeepSeek, Azure, OpenRouter, Ollama, LM Studio, Deepgram, ElevenLabs, and others. Pro features include automatic meeting start and end detection, watched folders, workflow uploads to tools such as Notion, Zapier, Obsidian, n8n, Make.com, custom webhooks, and CLI control for agent or scripting workflows. By combining private transcription, meeting recording, dictation, AI prompts, local models, exports, integrations, and automation, MacWhisper gives Mac users a powerful way to capture and work with spoken information.

What is Cartesia Ink 2?

Ink 2 is Cartesia’s latest and most sophisticated streaming speech-to-text model, tailored specifically for production voice agents, and it features the industry's lowest word error rate alongside exceptional turn detection capabilities. This model shines in its ability to accurately transcribe structured data such as phone numbers, dates, and email addresses on the initial attempt, while also instinctively identifying when a speaker starts and stops talking, thus negating the requirement for a separate voice activity detection system. The built-in turn detection facilitates seamless responses from voice agents to various events, eliminating the hassle of analyzing raw transcript fragments. Ink 2 produces a detailed array of turn events that provide agents with clear indicators on when to listen, interrupt, reflect, prepare to respond, retract an inappropriate response, or engage in dialogue. Furthermore, the transcript maintains a cumulative format throughout each turn, ensuring that every update reflects the entire text transcribed up to that moment rather than merely highlighting incremental changes, with the emitted text being deemed final immediately upon transmission. This cutting-edge design significantly elevates the quality of interactions between voice agents and users, fostering smoother and more effective conversations while enhancing overall user experience. Ultimately, Ink 2 represents a significant leap forward in the realm of speech recognition technology.

Media

Media

Integrations Supported

Chime
Cisco Webex
Claude
Claude for Legal
DeepL
Discord
GPT-4
GPT-4 Turbo
GPT-4o
GPT-4o mini
Groq
Markdown
Microsoft Foundry Agent Service
Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Word
Ollama
OpenAI Whisper
OpenRouter
Scribe
Skype

API Availability

Has API

API Availability

Has API

Pricing Information

€59 one-time payment
Free Version

Pricing Information

Pricing not provided

Supported Platforms

Mac

Supported Platforms

SaaS

Customer Service / Support

Web-Based Support

Customer Service / Support

Web-Based Support

Training Options

Documentation Hub

Training Options

Documentation Hub

Company Facts

Organization Name

MacWhisper

Company Location

United States

Company Website

www.macwhisper.com

Company Facts

Organization Name

Cartesia

Date Founded

2023

Company Location

United States

Company Website

docs.cartesia.ai/build-with-cartesia/stt/latest

Categories and Features

Dictation

Not specified

Speech to Text

Not specified

Transcription

Not specified

Categories and Features

AI Models

Not specified

AI Voice Models

Not specified

Speech to Text

Not specified

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