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Transcribe user interviews on your Mac
Turn user interviews and usability sessions into speaker-labeled transcripts on your Mac — offline, so participant recordings and unreleased product details never leave your machine.
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Can I transcribe user interviews privately on a Mac?
Yes. Lesskeys transcribes interviews and usability sessions on your Mac's GPU, so recordings are never uploaded to a transcription service. For research, that matters twice over: you're protecting participants' confidentiality and often unreleased product details discussed in the session. Keeping the audio on your own machine keeps both contained — and it works offline, with no account.
Speaker labels built for interviews
A verbatim wall of text is hard to analyze. Lesskeys applies automatic on-device speaker diarization, so each turn is labeled — name the moderator and participant once, and recurring participants can be recognized across sessions. That makes it far quicker to pull quotes, tag themes, and attribute findings correctly.
From session to synthesis
- 99 languages with auto-detect for international studies.
- A transcript-synced player to jump back to the exact moment behind a quote.
- Import existing recordings, or capture new remote sessions locally.
- System-wide dictation for writing up notes and reports by voice.
A working setup for a research round
- Record or import — capture a remote session on your Mac, or drop in recordings from your research tool.
- Transcribe on-device — each session is transcribed and speaker-labeled locally, keeping participant data inside your own boundary.
- Label participants — assign moderator/participant names; recurring participants are recognized across sessions.
- Tag and cite — use the synced player to verify quotes, then export TXT into your analysis or repository tool.
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FAQ
Can I transcribe user interviews offline on a Mac?
Yes. Lesskeys transcribes user interviews and usability sessions entirely on your Mac, offline, so participant recordings are never uploaded — important for confidentiality and for unreleased product details discussed in sessions.
Does it label each speaker in an interview?
Yes. Automatic on-device speaker diarization labels the moderator and participant, and you can assign real names; recurring participants can be recognized across sessions.
Is it a subscription?
No — Lesskeys is a one-time purchase, with no per-minute cloud fees, so a full research round costs nothing extra to transcribe.
Can I transcribe sessions I already recorded?
Yes. Import existing audio or video recordings and Lesskeys transcribes them locally, with speaker labels.