Alternatives to aTrain
Transcribe recorded interviews on your own computer. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
aTrain
Transcribe recorded interviews on your own computer.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as aTrain.
noScribe
Transcribes recorded audio to text on your own computer, with speaker separation.
noScribe also transcribes locally with speaker separation, adds a macOS version, is GPL-3.0 licensed, and is slow without a capable GPU.
Whisper
An open-source speech recognition model from OpenAI for transcribing and translating audio on your own machine.
Whisper is the MIT licensed OpenAI model with transcription and translation to English, but it needs command-line and Python setup with no graphical interface.
Buzz
Turn speech recordings into text with a desktop transcription app.
Buzz is an MIT licensed desktop transcription app for Windows, macOS and Linux with microphone transcription and subtitle exports, though speaker detection is not listed.
Vibe
Transcribe audio and video files on your own computer.
Vibe is an MIT licensed desktop app that transcribes audio and video in batches with several subtitle formats, and its optional cloud summarization contacts an external provider.
whisper.cpp
C/C++ port of OpenAI's Whisper for fast offline speech-to-text on your own hardware.
whisper.cpp offers fast offline transcription in C/C++ without Python, running on CPU or GPU, but it is mainly a command-line tool with no bundled interface.
Meetily
Record and transcribe meetings with local AI processing.
Meetily records and transcribes meetings locally and can summarize them, runs on Windows and macOS, with some exports and team features in a paid Pro edition.
Also worth comparing
These listings name aTrain as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
MacWhisper
A Mac app that transcribes audio and video files to text on your own machine.
aTrain is a free AGPL-3.0 interview transcriber with speaker detection, available for Windows and Linux rather than macOS.
WhisperX
A speech recognition tool that adds word-level timestamps and speaker diarization to Whisper transcription.
aTrain is an AGPL-3.0 interview transcriber for Windows and Linux with speaker detection and no command-line setup required.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Handy
Dictate into desktop text fields with local speech recognition.
Superwhisper
A voice dictation app that turns speech into text in any app, using offline or cloud recognition.
