{"slug": "recommendations-for-private-transcription-tools", "title": "Recommendations for private transcription tools?", "summary": "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.", "body_md": "[jibs](https://discuss.privacyguides.net/u/jibs)\n1\nHi, I tried searching but only found Text-to-Speech alternatives.\n\nI’m looking to record a lot of text and was wondering about the best way to achieve Speech-to-Text with privacy respecting software.\n\nThank you!\n\nI haven’t checked but the proliferation of generated AI YouTube channels, you should be able to host your own LLM and generate TTS somehow…\n\nI 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?\n\nOn my self-hosted Open WebUI instance, it uses Faster Whisper locally:\n\nthanks for sharing, what pushed you to use faster whisper? any problems with it so far?\n\nIt 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.\n\nI’ll check it out, thanks for the tip!\n\nFramasoft developed an apl for transcription called Lokas. lokas.app", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/recommendations-for-private-transcription-tools", "canonical_source": "https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/recommendations-for-private-transcription-tools/27665#post_3", "published_at": "2026-06-01 21:52:51+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-13 05:55:20.700160+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-tools", "artificial-intelligence", "machine-learning", "natural-language-processing", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["Faster Whisper", "Open WebUI", "Framasoft", "Lokas"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/recommendations-for-private-transcription-tools", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/recommendations-for-private-transcription-tools.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/recommendations-for-private-transcription-tools.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/recommendations-for-private-transcription-tools.jsonld"}}