For PhD candidates, researchers, lecturers and students

Audio to text. On your PC.No cloud. No subscription.

Interviews, focus groups, lectures, seminar recordings. Audio and transcript stay on your Windows PC — no sharing with third parties, no recurring costs.

Try free (7 days) 149 € one-time — no subscription
For university, college, and PhD work GDPR-compliant, no DPA needed Windows 10/11
MeetingScribe Windows app

Who MeetingScribe is made for

Wherever audio needs to become text at universities, colleges, and research institutes — and the data can't or shouldn't go to the cloud.

PhD candidates

Qualitative interviews for your dissertation, expert conversations, field research recordings. Export to MAXQDA or ATLAS.ti for coding.

Researchers & institutes

Focus groups, narrative interviews, ethnographic recordings. Ethics review stays simpler — no third-party data processing to explain.

University and college lecturers

Transcribe your own lectures into study notes, archive guest talks, convert seminar recordings into text. Immediately deductible as a low-value asset (Austrian GWG).

Students

Turn lecture recordings into study materials, transcribe bachelor's or master's thesis interviews, document group work. 149 € one-time instead of a monthly subscription.

Course instructors & departments

Course recordings, conference audio, interviews for academic publications. Usable on two devices (office PC + laptop).

Libraries & archives

Digitize oral history interviews, add transcripts to witness testimonies, make older audio collections searchable.

Cloud transcription vs. local processing

For research and teaching recordings, "where does the data end up" is not a side issue — whether it's GDPR, your ethics committee, or internal university policies.

Cloud services (otter.ai, Trint, Rev)

  • Recordings go to third parties — DPA required, often hosted outside the EU
  • Monthly subscription, adds up over a dissertation or semester
  • Ethics application or university data protection review must explicitly cover cloud processing

MeetingScribe

  • Audio and transcript stay on your PC — office, home office, or student laptop
  • One-time 149 €, no recurring costs. Deductible from third-party grant budgets or as a low-value asset
  • No DPA needed — you are the sole data controller

From recording to transcript — 4 steps

1

Import recording

Interview, lecture, focus group. From recorder, smartphone, Zoom or Teams call. MP3, WAV, M4A, MP4, MKV.

2

Select model

Whisper automatically selects a model based on your GPU.

3

Start transcription

Local AI runs on your machine — transcript with timestamps per segment.

4

Export for analysis

DOCX, TXT, or SRT — direct import into MAXQDA or ATLAS.ti.

What this means technically

Recordings stay local

Audio and transcript never leave your PC. No upload, no third party — no DPA needed.

For MAXQDA & ATLAS.ti

Export in open formats (DOCX, TXT, SRT) — direct import into MAXQDA, ATLAS.ti, NVivo, and f4transkript. Timestamps preserved.

GDPR-compliant

Local processing, no third-party transmission. Ethics applications and university data protection reviews get simpler — no external data processing to explain.

One price. Unlimited recordings.

Pay once, use for your entire dissertation or degree — instead of paying monthly for a cloud subscription.

One-time purchase

MeetingScribe

149 €

Incl. VAT · All updates included · Usable on 2 devices

  • Unlimited transcriptions, unlimited audio length
  • Whisper large-v3-turbo, local
  • 30 languages plus auto-detection
  • Export: DOCX, PDF, TXT, SRT, VTT
  • Usable on 2 devices (office PC + laptop)
  • 7-day free trial, no registration
Buy now — 149 €

Try first, then buy.

Frequently Asked Questions

Yes. Audio and transcript stay on your machine. Since no data processing is outsourced, no DPA is required. You are the sole data controller under GDPR — this applies equally to PhD candidates with an ethics application, lecturers with a university data protection review, or students with thesis recordings.
Yes. Export as DOCX, TXT, or SRT — all common QDA tools (MAXQDA, ATLAS.ti, NVivo, f4transkript) can import these formats. Timestamps are preserved.
Whisper Large-v3-Turbo transcribes the spoken words even with multiple speakers. For focus groups with overlapping speech, manual corrections are needed — the transcript is editable directly in the app. Speaker recognition (diarization) can optionally be enabled; its reliability depends on recording quality and microphone setup.
Windows 10 or 11 (64-bit). NVIDIA GPU with 6 GB+ VRAM recommended for fast transcription. Without a GPU, the app runs on CPU — significantly slower, but it works. Test during the 7-day free trial on your PC or student laptop.
Only in three cases: (1) one-time Whisper model download on first launch, (2) license key validation, (3) optional AI summary if you enable it. During transcription itself: zero network traffic.
7 days, no credit card, no registration. Up to 5 min audio per transcription, 5 meetings storable in the library. Need more for a realistic test: contact@gorec.io.

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