Parlin
Dictate, transcribe, translate, and record meetings on your Mac. All on-device.
- Record meetings, get a clean transcript and notes.
- Hold a key, talk, text lands at your cursor. In any language you pick.
- Every model runs on your Apple Silicon Mac. No cloud, no upload.
What it does
The shortlist. Full details in the app.
Meeting recording
live transcript, then summary, key points, and action items.
Suggested questions
appear live while the meeting runs.
Hold-key dictation
text lands at your cursor in any app.
Live translation
speak one language, text arrives in another.
99 languages
Parakeet for English at about 98% accuracy, Whisper for the rest.
Bundled local LLM
runs on any M-series Mac, swap in a bigger model anytime.
Fully offline
audio never leaves the machine.
Clean exports
notes as PDF or Markdown, transcripts as TXT, SRT, or VTT.
How it works
Parlin turns speech into text on your Mac, fully offline. Record a meeting and watch the live transcript while Parlin suggests questions worth asking; when you stop, it writes the summary, key points, and action items, ready to export as a formatted PDF or Markdown file. Hold a shortcut to dictate into any app, or drop an audio file or paste a media URL to transcribe it. Speak in one language and get the text in another: pick an output language and dictation translates as you talk, near real-time. Built for Apple Silicon. English dictation runs on NVIDIA Parakeet, about 98% word accuracy on clear speech, transcribed in about a tenth of a second; Whisper covers the other 98 languages, 99 in total. A bundled local LLM handles cleanup and summaries through the Apple MLX framework, fast even on an M1. On a stronger Mac, swap in any local model you like (Qwen, Llama, Gemma, Mistral): because everything runs locally, the app gets better every time your hardware does. Learns your product names with a Developer Dictionary and exports to TXT, SRT, or VTT with word-level timestamps. Audio never leaves the machine.
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Since
2026