# How to transcribe interviews and dictate text without the cloud with VoiceStudio

Repo: [debpalash/VoiceStudio](https://github.com/debpalash/VoiceStudio) | Difficulty: Beginner | Time: 30 minutes | Basis: From the README

Run transcription and the floating dictation widget locally so recordings and speech stay on your machine.

**Who it is for:** Journalist or researcher with sensitive interview audio that cannot go to a cloud transcriber

**The problem:** Uploading private recordings to a hosted transcription service is a privacy risk.

**The outcome:** Text transcripts of your audio, plus dictated text, produced entirely on your own hardware.

## Steps

1. Install the app and open the transcription workspace.
2. Load an audio or video file, or start the floating dictation widget.
3. Install the speech model when prompted and run the transcription.
4. Copy the transcript out and proofread it against the audio.

## Prompt to paste into your agent

```text
Use debpalash/VoiceStudio to transcribe <audio file> locally. Return the transcript and verify a few spot-checked passages against the recording.
```

## Caveat

The README lists transcription and dictation as features but does not publish accuracy figures, so always proofread names and numbers.

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