Rogue Amoeba has released Audio Hijack 4.3, a free update to the company’s flagship audio recorder for macOS. The update adds a Transcribe block feature.
The feature allows users to turn spoken audio into a written transcript. Transcribe is powered by OpenAI’s automatic speech recognition system Whisper, which can turn 57 languages into text.
There’s no per-minute charge. With Audio Hijack and Transcribe, you can generate unlimited transcriptions, all at no additional cost to your wallet or privacy. According to the folks at Rogue Amoeba, that’s because all transcription takes place locally on your Mac. Audio data is never sent to the cloud, nor shared with anyone else.
For new users, Audio Hijack costs US$64. A demo is available for download.
