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The Transcripts tab turns audio and video files into text. Transcription runs on your Mac, so your recordings stay on it. Pipit supports WAV, MP3, M4A, AIFF, MP4, and MOV files.

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Transcribe a file

  1. Open Pipit and choose the Transcripts tab.
  2. Drag a file onto Transcribe a file, or click it and pick a file.
  3. To label who said what, turn on Detect speakers.
  4. Click Transcribe.
When it’s done, the file shows the number of words (and speakers, if you detected them). Click Open to read the transcript. If something went wrong, click Retry. If Transcribe is dimmed, Pipit is still loading your voice model. Wait a moment and try again.
The first time you use Detect speakers, Pipit downloads what it needs, so you’ll need an internet connection.

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Work with a transcript

Open a transcript to:
  • Search within it, with Search in transcript….
  • Get an AI Summary. This needs AI cleanup set up: turn on Clean up with AI in Enhance and finish setting up your provider. The transcript’s text is sent to the AI provider you picked.
  • Export it. Every transcript exports as text. If you used Detect speakers, you can also choose Export as SRT, Export as VTT (subtitle files), or Export as JSON.
  • Delete it.
AI Summary, export, and Delete are in the ⋯ menu at the top of the transcript.