Post #672814

2026-01-23 09:14 UTC

Hallelujah, I&#39;ve found a FOSS transcription app that allows offline, on-device transcription of pre-recorded audio files, e. g. downloaded Signal voice messages. Fair warning: It uses OpenAI&#39;s machine learning model &quot;Whisper&quot;, which runs locally, but was most likely not trained ethically by OpenAI. But least it&#39;s being put to good use as a valuable accessibility tool. 🙏 &quot;Notely Voice&quot; by Tosin Onikute is available for Android and iOS and even on F-Droid: 🌐 https://notelyvoice.com #VoiceMessages #Transcription #FOSS #Signal

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@marek@festiverse.de 2026-01-23 09:36

@bestiaexmachina That i great! I was looking a long time for a tool that is able to convert voice messages to text on the device. I also use "Whisper" https://f-droid.org/packages/org.woheller69.whisper/ already for direct voice to text conversion. But it does not offer converting existing audio files. Though it has the advantage that it can be used as in input mehtod - So you should not event need to send a voice message but have you talking directly converted to text input ;-)

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@rantanlan@social.tchncs.de 2026-01-23 09:58

@bestiaexmachina should this be the end of all my headaches? that would be fabulous... I'm allergic to voiceims!

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@funkylab@mastodon.social 2026-01-23 11:02

@bestiaexmachina nice. If you're on a Laptop/PC, SpeechNote lets you choose from a range of speech models, not only Whisper. I believe flatpak is the recommended way of installing it, thus: https://flathub.org/en/apps/net.mkiol.SpeechNote

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@kranzkrone@quasselkopf.de 2026-01-24 15:19

@bestiaexmachina Thank you for sharing this finding of a useful transcription app that runs locally on device too. 😃👍🤟 #VoiceMessages #Transcription #FOSS #Signal #Android #iOS #fdroid #NotelyVoice #TosinOnikute #App #OpenAI

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