The Aiko app focuses on converting spoken word into text. Around 100 languages are understood, including Dutch.
Dennis Gandasoebrata
Do you often develop conversations from audio to typed text? Then Aiko is worth seeing. The app focuses on converting spoken words into text. At the time of writing, the app supports around 100 different languages, including Dutch.
With Aiko, the maker focuses on the transcription part. This way you cannot edit the conversations, but you need a different app for this. Privacy also plays a major role for Aiko. For example, the conversions are performed on the local device and not first sent to an external server. Via the settings window you can indicate that the language must be recognized automatically, but you can also select a standard language.
If you use the transcription for subtitles (for example from a video), you can indicate in the app that the texts must be optimized for subtitles. The transcription is then limited in length and therefore suitable for the video. To save space, the app can automatically delete audio recordings after a week.
The app uses the OpenAi model Whisper for the conversion. You can also install a version within macOS, but unlike the mobile version, a larger AI model is then used, which is also performed locally on the machine.
Aiko is relatively expensive: the app costs around 20 euros.
Aiko (https://sindesorhus.com/aiko)
Platform: iOS 17.4+, macOS 15.2+
Advocate:
* Local processing
* Automatic language recognition
Negatives:
* Relatively expensive license