Pyno

Pyno

Live speech-to-text on your Mac. Fully local, free, no account.

Built for lecture halls. Record the whole class and the full transcript is written and saved by the time it ends.

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Version 1.0.1 · 10 MB · Apple Silicon, macOS 14 or later
Notarized by Apple. Opens on the first double-click.

Pyno recording a session, with the transcript building underneath

Nothing leaves the Mac

Transcription runs on the Neural Engine. It works the same with the Wi-Fi off.

Made for long sessions

Two and three hour recordings, written to disk as they go.

Plain Markdown out

One file per session in your Documents folder. No database, no lock-in.

25 European languages

NVIDIA Parakeet TDT v3 through Core ML, in English or French.