Transcribe Media
Transcripts start local, stay local. Whisper runs on your Mac to create state-of-the-art transcripts from audio or video.
Software
Software built around the tedious parts of post.
Transcript Workbench Pro is a native SwiftUI macOS app for local transcription, transcript correction, AI-assisted social selects, and editor timeline generation.
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Transcript Workbench Pro
A native SwiftUI Mac app built around the real drudge work of long interviews, panels, event videos, and social clip requests: transcribe locally, review and correct timecoded text, re-export clean transcript deliverables, find usable moments, and turn notes into editorial material for Final Cut Pro or Premiere.
- Local Whisper transcription on Mac
- Review and edit existing transcripts alongside media playback
- Batch local transcription for interviews, panels, and event recordings
- Transcripts formatted for humans, not just computers
- TXT, SRT, VTT, JSON, and TSV transcript exports
- Readable timed transcript PDFs
- Turn emailed clip requests into editable timelines
- Social clip and selects identification
- Instant PDF reports for communications directors
- AI-generated titles, descriptions, and hashtags
- Final Cut Pro XML and Premiere XML exports
- Bring your own OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, or Google Gemini API key for cloud-assisted editorial tools
Four workflows
Start from the job in front of you.
Transcribe new media, correct an existing transcript, create social selects, or turn a producer email into Final Cut Pro or Premiere sequences.
Review & Edit Transcript
Correct timecoded transcripts alongside media playback, then export clean PDF, TXT, SRT, VTT, JSON, or TSV files.
Create Social Selects
Identify useful moments with timecode ranges, transcript excerpts, suggested titles, descriptions, hashtags, and a management-facing report explaining why each clip was selected.
Email to Timeline
Get an email. Translate it to a timeline - or several timelines. Turn clip requests into editable Final Cut Pro or Premiere sequences in a few clicks.
Transcript editor
Review, correct, and export with confidence.
Open an existing transcript or continue directly from a local transcription. Follow the recording as it plays, correct timecoded text, find and replace recurring errors, and export clean deliverables in the formats your workflow requires.
Open transcript
Open TXT, SRT, VTT, JSON, TSV, or a timed transcript PDF, or continue directly from a completed local transcription.
Review with media
Play the associated audio or video inside the editor and follow playback as the active timecoded segment is highlighted.
Correct text
Edit transcript text while retaining segment timecodes, then use search and replace to clean up recurring errors.
Export
Choose export formats in Preferences and save corrected PDF, TXT, SRT, VTT, JSON, or TSV files with the standard macOS save workflow.
Sample outputs
Real files from a Transcript Workbench run.
AI options
Run transcription locally. Choose your AI provider for editorial prep.
Transcribe Media and Review & Edit Transcript stay on your Mac. Social Selects and Email to Timeline can use your own OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, or Google Gemini API key when you explicitly start a cloud-assisted workflow.
AI services
The tools that can power the work.
Transcript Workbench Pro separates local transcription from optional cloud AI. Only the content needed for the selected operation is sent to a cloud AI service.
Local transcription
Local transcription engine
Fast, accurate speech-to-text on your Mac using Whisper models through whisper.cpp. Your media and transcript text stay local during transcription.
Optional cloud AI
Pick the AI service for the editorial job.
Use your own API key when you want AI help with the parts that come after transcription: finding selects, shaping handoff notes, and turning producer requests into timelines.
Social Selects
Analyze transcript text and project context to find useful moments, suggest titles and descriptions, and generate a management-facing report explaining the choices.
Email to Timeline
Translate pasted clip requests into editable Final Cut Pro or Premiere sequences so an email can become a working timeline.
Mac App Store
Get Transcript Workbench Pro for Mac.
Install the native macOS app from the App Store and start building local transcripts, corrected exports, social selects, and editor timelines from the work already on your desk.