EddyLoop listens while you work and writes what you say to plain text log files on your disk. The model runs on your machine, so no audio and no transcript ever leaves it. The one time model download is the only thing that uses the network.
Free. No account, no key to enter. Windows 10 and 11, 64 bit.
Speech runs into the EddyLoop swirl, is transcribed by a model on your own machine with no network, and lands as a timestamped line in a plain text file.
One Windows installer. The speech model downloads once, then runs entirely on your machine.
Click the tray icon. Blue means the microphone is live. There is no key to hold.
Speech is transcribed as it happens. The swirl fills to show what is being heard.
One plain text file per recording session, named for when it started, in a folder you choose. Grep it, sync it, delete it.
Transcription happens on your CPU or GPU, and there is no telemetry in the transcription path. Your audio and your transcripts are never uploaded, so there is no store of what you said for anyone to breach. The speech model downloads once on first run, and after that the app has nothing to ask the network for.
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pausedBlue means the microphone is live, and how full the swirl is says what is being heard. You never have to wonder whether it is recording.
Hands on a part, not a keyboard. Say the measurement, find it in the log at the end of the day.
Talk out a draft while you walk the room. The transcript is a plain file your editor already opens.
Air gapped machines, patient or client confidentiality, anywhere a cloud transcriber is not allowed.
Download the installer and run it. There is no account to make, no key to enter and no limit on how many of your machines it goes on.
A few here, the rest on the FAQ page. Answers are full sentences so they can win a search snippet.
Yes. The app makes no network call of its own accord. The only request it ever makes is downloading a speech model, once, from Hugging Face, when you choose one. After that the model is on your disk and transcription never contacts a server.
No. EddyLoop is an open mic recorder. You arm it once and it transcribes in the background until you pause or disarm it.
Into one plain .txt file per recording session, named for the time it started, in a folder you pick. Nothing is stored in a database and nothing is encrypted, so any text tool can read them.
It does less on purpose. No voice commands, no formatting engine, no upload. It listens and it writes files.
Yes. Install it on as many machines as you like. EddyLoop is free, there is no limit on machines, no key to paste and no account, so a new computer is just another install.
