LittleASR/iOS · macOS
Speech to text.
Subtitles, locally.
Available on iOS and macOS. Use live transcription and conversation translation on iOS; on Mac, transcribe audio and video with Whisper, translate side by side, and export subtitles.
See LittleASR on iOS
Transcribe microphone audio live, pause and resume, and read translations alongside the original. Import audio files with timestamped results, or use Conversation for two-way translation, spoken playback and turn-taking. Copy and share transcripts and revisit saved history.
iOS and macOS: choose your workflow
| Feature | iOS | macOS |
|---|---|---|
| File transcription | Import audio; Apple Speech produces timestamped segments. | Import audio or video, or record audio; choose a local Whisper model. |
| Live transcription and translation | Microphone transcription, pause/resume, translation and recording playback. | Microphone transcription and translation in a dedicated window; send recordings to file transcription. |
| Two-way conversation | Choose both languages, translate turns and read translations aloud; replay translations. | No dedicated two-way conversation mode. |
| Results and export | Copy and share transcript text. | Export SRT, VTT and TXT. |
| History | Review file, live and conversation history. | Review saved transcription history. |
iOS uses Apple Speech for file and live transcription. Available languages depend on the device and system; speech and translation resources may need to be downloaded first. The Whisper language list and subtitle workflow below apply to macOS.
Understand more, follow every word
Your transcript, in another language
Follow the original and its translation side by side, segment by segment. New and edited text is translated as it appears, and translations stay with your history. Available language pairs depend on Apple Translation; language resources may need to be downloaded.
Never lose your place
Turn on playback highlighting to follow along as the current segment is highlighted and brought into view during playback. Jump to another point in the audio and the transcript follows.
On Mac: audio and video to text.
Like magic.
High-performance offline transcription for your meetings, voice memos, or videos. Process entire files seamlessly with near-perfect accuracy—even in noisy environments.
macOS Whisper: 100 languages and dialects
English • Chinese • Cantonese • Japanese • Korean • French • German • Spanish • Russian • Italian • Portuguese • Turkish • Polish • Catalan • Dutch • Arabic • Swedish • Indonesian • Hindi • Finnish • Vietnamese • Hebrew • Ukrainian • Greek • Malay • Czech • Romanian • Danish • Hungarian • Tamil • Norwegian • Thai • Urdu • Croatian • Bulgarian • Lithuanian • Latin • Maori • Malayalam • Welsh • Slovak • Telugu • Persian • Latvian • Bengali • Serbian • Azerbaijani • Slovenian • Kannada • Estonian • Macedonian • Breton • Basque • Icelandic • Armenian • Nepali • Mongolian • Bosnian • Kazakh • Albanian • Swahili • Galician • Marathi • Punjabi • Sinhala • Khmer • Shona • Yoruba • Somali • Afrikaans • Occitan • Georgian • Belarusian • Tajik • Sindhi • Gujarati • Amharic • Yiddish • Lao • Uzbek • Faroese • Haitian • Pashto • Turkmen • Nynorsk • Maltese • Sanskrit • Luxembourgish • Myanmar • Tibetan • Tagalog • Malagasy • Assamese • Tatar • Hawaiian • Lingala • Hausa • Bashkir • Javanese • Sundanese
Live transcription and translation
Choose a microphone and see speech appear as text as you record. Pause and resume when you need to, then turn on translation to follow the conversation in another language.
Live transcription and translation languages depend on Apple system support. Some language resources require a download.
The macOS subtitle workflow.
Import Media
Simply drag and drop your mp3, wav, mp4, or mov files into the app. LittleASR supports both audio and video formats.
Run Transcription
Select your language and click "AI Transcribe". Watch the progress in real-time as Whisper converts speech to text.
Export Subtitles
Save your work as professional SRT/VTT subtitles or plain TXT files, with precise timestamps ready for Final Cut Pro, Premiere, or YouTube.
Transcript
Welcome to the product review.
Today we are going to look at the key features of our latest release.
Let's start with the performance improvements.
We have achieved a 40% reduction in processing time.
Get started
Get started with LittleASR today
Available on iOS and macOS. Use live transcription and conversation translation on iOS; transcribe audio and video with Whisper and export subtitles on Mac.