On-device transcription
Turning speech into text on your own device, with no audio sent to a server.
On-device transcription is speech-to-text that runs locally on your iPhone or iPad rather than in the cloud. The recognition happens on the device's own chip, so the raw audio of what you said is never uploaded — only the resulting text stays with you.
This matters for privacy: a spoken thought can be personal, and keeping the audio on the device means it is never handed to a server to be processed or stored. It also means capture keeps working smoothly without a round trip to a remote service.
In Notabe, every voice note is transcribed on-device — the audio never leaves your iPhone or iPad, and only the written text is kept.