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Recommendations for private transcription tools?

A user on the Privacy Guides forum is seeking recommendations for private speech-to-text transcription tools. The discussion highlights Faster Whisper as a self-hosted option and mentions Lokas by Framasoft as a privacy-respecting alternative.

read1 min publishedJun 1, 2026

jibs 1 Hi, I tried searching but only found Text-to-Speech alternatives.

I’m looking to record a lot of text and was wondering about the best way to achieve Speech-to-Text with privacy respecting software.

Thank you!

I haven’t checked but the proliferation of generated AI YouTube channels, you should be able to host your own LLM and generate TTS somehow…

I want to adopt a transcription tool, but unsure on what is the best one for ease of use + privacy. What are folks using these days / best when it comes to privacy guarantees?

On my self-hosted Open WebUI instance, it uses Faster Whisper locally:

thanks for sharing, what pushed you to use faster whisper? any problems with it so far?

It is simply the default STT option. I do not use it often, but it carries the same problems as other transcription software, you need a good microphone, clear pronounciation, controlled room ambiance, etc.

I’ll check it out, thanks for the tip!

Framasoft developed an apl for transcription called Lokas. lokas.app

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