LesskeysPrivate interview transcription for journalists, offline
Turn an interview recording into a transcript with speaker labels on your own computer, so the audio is not uploaded. You still check every quote against the recording before it goes into a piece.
macOS 13+ on Apple Silicon · No subscriptionWindows 10 and 11 · No subscription
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Three jobs
What a journalist does with it
Transcribe an interview or a field recording.
Speaker labels, and the language is detected among 99.
99 languagesRecord a video-call interview.
No bot joins. Name a regular source once and Lesskeys can recognise the voice later.
Check a quote before you print it.
Play the recording from the line, hear the words, then copy the quote.
Works with MP3, M4A, WAV, AIFF, MP4, MOV and M4V files. Convert other formats first.
Other languages
An interview in another language
Lesskeys detects the language among 99 and writes what was said in that language.
The transcript is in the language that was spoken: Spanish speech gives a Spanish transcript. Accuracy differs between languages, so have someone who speaks it check names and quotes.
Source audio
Source audio stays on your computer
Turned into text on your computer, not uploaded.
That is one step. What protects a source is how you handle the computer, its backups and anything that syncs its folders. Lesskeys makes no promise about source protection.
- Nothinguploaded
- Offlineworks with the internet off
- No accountneeded
The recording
The recording is the evidence
Names, places and unusual terms can come out wrong.
Speaker labels can be wrong when people talk over each other. You set how many people spoke (2 by default).
On a Mac
A journalist on a Mac
- macOS 13 or later, Apple Silicon
- No bot joins the call
Tell the people you record; some places require everyone's consent.
On Windows
A journalist on Windows
- Windows 10 and 11
- Record Call needs only your microphone
- No bot joins the call
Tell the people you record; some places require everyone's consent.
Questions
Questions about Lesskeys for journalists
Can journalists transcribe interviews privately?
Yes. Lesskeys transcribes on your own computer, so the interview audio is not uploaded. It needs no account and works without an internet connection once the speech model is on your computer.
Does Lesskeys keep source audio confidential?
The audio and the transcript stay on your computer and are not uploaded. Lesskeys makes no promise about source protection; that depends on how you handle the computer and its files.
Can it transcribe interviews in other languages?
Yes, it detects the language among 99. Accuracy differs between languages, so check names and quotes against the audio.
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