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Parlin
Private, on-device meeting notes and speech-to-text
Dictation, meeting notes and file transcription that run entirely on your Apple Silicon Mac, so your audio stays on your Mac. Hold Fn and talk, and clean text lands in the app you're typing in. Add Shift for your exact words, or Cmd for a short summary. Record a meeting for a transcript with speaker labels and notes, or drop in audio or video and export TXT, SRT, VTT, Markdown or PDF. 7 days free, then one payment. No subscription.
Hi Product Hunt! I’m Max, founder of DevX Group and the maker of Parlin.
The idea behind Parlin is simple: turning speech into useful text should happen on your own Mac, with your recordings and conversations staying under your control.
Parlin brings three everyday workflows together:
- Dictation: speak your emails, notes, or coding prompts. Choose how much cleanup you want, from keeping your wording to polishing or summarizing it. The direct version inserts text into the app you’re using.
- Meetings: record your microphone and system audio, identify speakers, and turn the conversation into notes, decisions, and action items.
- Recordings: drop in an audio or video file and export a transcript, subtitles, or a document.
Speech recognition and built-in AI cleanup run locally. Once the models are downloaded, those workflows work offline.
Parlin runs on Apple Silicon Macs with macOS 14.6 or later. The direct version has a 7-day trial and a one-time purchase, with no subscription.
I’d love to hear where speech tools still let you down. Is it dictation accuracy, useful meeting notes, privacy, or something else? Tell me what you try and what needs work.
Hi Product Hunt, I'm Max, founder of DevX Group LLC, the small team behind Parlin.
Most dictation and meeting-note tools send your voice to a server and bill you every month. I wanted one app that does all of it on the Mac, so what you say stays on your machine, and you pay for it once.
In one app:
• Hold Fn and talk: clean text lands in whatever app you're typing in. Fn plus Shift for your exact words, Fn plus Cmd for a short summary.
• Record a meeting: no bot joins. You get who said what, a suggested next question during the call, and a summary with action items after.
• Drop in audio or video: export TXT, SRT, VTT, Markdown or PDF.
• 99 languages. Speak one, paste another: on-the-spot translation & clean-up in any app you can type in.
• Record on iPhone with the free Parlin Recorder and AirDrop it to the Mac.
New in 1.0.35: Clean mode reads your whole dictation before it fixes anything. Names, acronyms, drug names, units and code come out exactly as you said them, and a pause before "and" or "but" no longer drops a period into the middle of your sentence.
It runs on any Mac with Apple Silicon, from an M1 with 8 GB of memory. 7 days free, then $39 once until October 31 ($69 after). No subscription. The Mac App Store version is live too.
I'd love feedback on accuracy with your own vocabulary, and on what's missing from the meeting notes.
About Parlin on Product Hunt
“Private, on-device meeting notes and speech-to-text”
Parlin was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 2 upvotes and 2 comments, placing #111 on the daily leaderboard. Dictation, meeting notes and file transcription that run entirely on your Apple Silicon Mac, so your audio stays on your Mac. Hold Fn and talk, and clean text lands in the app you're typing in. Add Shift for your exact words, or Cmd for a short summary. Record a meeting for a transcript with speaker labels and notes, or drop in audio or video and export TXT, SRT, VTT, Markdown or PDF. 7 days free, then one payment. No subscription.
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