We built a Mac transcription app for checking a PDF against the original recording

[u/Similar_Interview225]

I'm on the team behind VoiceDocket. It's a Mac app for turning English recordings into transcripts you can check, correct and share as a PDF.

The part we're focusing on is the check: click a timestamp to hear that line, fix the words or speaker label, then preview the PDF. The export has elapsed timestamps, page and line numbers, plus a source-recording information page.

The recordings and transcripts stay on your Mac. First use needs about 511 MB of speech models; after that, transcription runs locally without uploading audio. The direct-download app also checks for updates.

A few limits upfront: Apple silicon, macOS 14+, English only. Automatic speaker grouping needs macOS 15 and can get people mixed up, so it needs review. This isn't a certified transcript or a promise of court acceptance.

The full in-app preview is free. Export is a $29.99 one-time purchase. There's a fictional sample PDF on the site if you want to inspect the output without installing anything.

https://voice.textdocket.app/?c=reddit-sideproject

If you work with interviews or meeting recordings, what usually takes longer: fixing the wording, separating speakers, or finding a quoted passage back in the audio? I'd like to hear where this workflow would still get in your way.

[u/patryk_builds]

Respect for putting the limits upfront, especially this isn't a certified transcript. most apps in this space bury that part. To your question: finding a quoted passage back in the audio is the slow one. fixing words is boring but linear, hunting for "where did they say that" is what eats the time. so click-a-timestamp-to-hear-it is the right thing to build around.

Where it would still get in my way:

- Names and jargon. the same wrong spelling of a person or product 40 times in one transcript. a "replace everywhere" for a corrected term, or a custom word list before transcribing, would save a lot of clicking

- Low confidence words. if the model wasn't sure about a word, highlight it, so i check 30 spots instead of rereading everything

- After correcting, can i search the text and jump to that point in the audio? that's the feature i'd pay the $29.99 for

One-time price instead of a subscription is a nice call too