Features

Recording

• Record system audio

  Desktop app

  TapeNote records what your PC plays (WASAPI loopback), from any app: browser, Teams, Zoom, Spotify, a video player. No microphone needed, no bot in your call.

• Silence counts too

  Desktop app

  Silent stretches are kept track of, so the timestamps match exactly what you heard.

• Switch headphones

  Desktop app

  Change your sound device during a recording and TapeNote reconnects on its own; the recording carries on.

• Automatic level

  Desktop app

  Quiet recordings are brought up to a good volume on playback. The recording itself stays untouched.

• Small and safely stored

  Desktop app

  Opus audio of about 14 MB per hour, written to disk as it goes. If your PC crashes, what was recorded is kept.

Transcription

• Local Whisper

  Desktop app

  Speech recognition with Whisper (large-v3-turbo) on your own PC. Works offline; no audio goes to the internet.

• Four languages, detected automatically

  Desktop app

  Dutch, English, Spanish and German. TapeNote picks the language itself; you can also set it by hand.

• No invented text in silence

  Desktop app

  Voice detection and a silence check before transcribing stop Whisper from making up text when nobody speaks.

• Fast with a GPU, fine without

  Desktop app

  With an ordinary graphics card (Vulkan: NVIDIA, AMD or Intel) an hour of audio is done in a few minutes. Without a GPU the processor does the work, more slowly.

• Timestamps

  Desktop + cloud

  Every sentence with the time it was spoken, in the app, in exports and in subtitles.

• Server transcription

  Coming soon

  Upload a recording and have it transcribed on our server, without the desktop app. On a GPU in the EU.

Listening back and editing

• Player with click-to-play

  Desktop + cloud

  Click a sentence or timestamp and the recording plays from there. The sentence being spoken lights up and the list follows along.

• Speed with pitch preserved

  Desktop app

  0.75× to 2×, without voices sounding higher or lower.

• Edit per sentence

  Desktop + cloud

  Fix a sentence with a double-click. Edited sentences are marked and the original is kept; one click restores it.

• Find and replace

  Desktop + cloud

  With ignore case, whole word and a count. Replace all in one step.

• Undo and redo

  Desktop app

  Ctrl+Z and Ctrl+Y for edits and replacements.

Keeping and exporting

• Library

  Desktop + cloud

  All your recordings in one list, grouped by day. Name them, star favourites and search names and the text of your transcripts.

• Trash

  Desktop + cloud

  Restorable for 30 days. Deleting for good asks for an extra confirmation.

• Export to six formats

  Desktop + cloud

  TXT, Markdown, Word (.docx) and PDF with the TapeNote logo, and subtitles (SRT and VTT). In the web library: TXT, Markdown, SRT and VTT.

• Many at once

  Desktop app

  Select a set of recordings and export them in one go, as separate files or as one zip.

TapeNote Cloud (opt-in)

• Sync

  Cloud

  Sign in from the app through your browser and switch on sync. Transcripts and edits then travel between PC and web. Audio only if you switch that on separately.

• Web library

  Cloud

  Your transcripts in the browser: search, read, edit, favourites, trash, export and audio playback.

• Share links

  Cloud

  A secret link per transcript. Anyone with the link can read it, nothing more. Revocable with one click, with an expiry date if you like.

• AI summary

  Coming soon

  A summary of your transcript, made by Claude in the EU. Always labelled as an AI summary, editable, and the AI version is kept. On a share link only if you switch it on.

• Teams with roles

  Coming soon

  Shared workspaces with Owner, Member and Viewer. Invite with a link, transfer ownership, and an audit log of irreversible actions.

• EU hosting

  Cloud

  Database, storage and processing in Frankfurt. Each workspace is isolated from the others inside the database itself.

Coming soon

We are working on these. Not available in the beta yet.

• Browser extension

  Coming soon

  Start and stop a recording from your browser, with the title and address of the page attached.

• Speaker recognition

  Coming soon

  Speaker 1, Speaker 2 … within one recording, with names you assign. No voice profiles that recognise people across recordings.

• Mobile apps

  Coming soon

  iOS and Android: record with the microphone, import files and have your cloud library at hand. (Phones do not allow recording sound from other apps.)