# Introducing Silkwave Voice: Private AI Note Taker and Transcription App for Mac

Meet Silkwave Voice, a macOS app that records audio, transcribes speech to text on-device, and generates AI summaries - all without sending your audio to the cloud.

The Silkwave Team

March 24, 2026

Meetings, lectures, interviews, podcasts - so much valuable information is spoken and then forgotten. Most transcription tools require you to upload your audio to a cloud service, raising privacy concerns and adding recurring costs. We wanted something better.

Today, we're introducing **Silkwave Voice**: a native macOS app that records audio, transcribes it to text in real time, and generates structured AI summaries - with transcription happening entirely on your device.

### Record Any Audio Source on Your Mac

Silkwave Voice can capture audio from your microphone, your system audio, or both simultaneously. This makes it easy to record a wide range of scenarios without any third-party audio drivers:

- **Microphone:** Capture your voice for dictation, voice notes, or in-person conversations.
- **System Audio:** Record internal audio directly from apps like Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, YouTube, or any browser tab.
- **Both at once:** Record a video call where you need both sides of the conversation - your microphone and the remote participants' audio through system audio.

You can start recordings from the main window or from the **menu bar**, so you never need to switch away from what you're doing. A timer in the menu bar keeps track of how long you've been recording.

### On-Device Speech-to-Text Transcription

Silkwave Voice transcribes audio in near real-time using Apple's on-device speech-to-text models on **macOS 26 (Tahoe)**. The transcription runs locally on your Mac - no internet connection required, no data sent to external servers, and no per-minute API costs.

The app supports **10 languages** with downloadable language packs:

Cantonese, Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish.

Each transcript is timestamped and synced with the audio. During playback, click any segment to jump to that moment, or enable **auto-scroll** to follow along as the audio plays.

### AI-Powered Meeting Summaries

Raw transcripts can be long and hard to scan. Silkwave Voice uses Apple Intelligence's ChatGPT extension to turn your transcripts into structured summaries that include:

- **Key Topics Discussed**
- **Action Items and Decisions**
- **Overall Theme**

You can generate summaries manually or enable **Auto Summarization** to create one automatically every time you pause a recording. The setup takes just a few minutes through the app's settings - install the bundled shortcut, grant a permission, and you're ready to go.

### Search Across All Your Recordings

Over time, your recording library grows. Silkwave Voice includes a full-text search that works across recording titles, transcripts, and summaries. Type a keyword and instantly find the exact recording and passage where it was mentioned.

For navigating within a single recording, use **Cmd + F** to find specific words in the current transcript or summary.

### Privacy by Design

Your audio files never leave your Mac. Transcription is processed locally by Apple's speech-to-text models, so no audio is uploaded to any server. When you use AI Summarization, only the transcript text is shared with ChatGPT through Apple Intelligence - your original audio stays on your device.

### Get Started

Silkwave Voice is available now on the Mac App Store. If you attend meetings, record lectures, or work with any form of spoken content, give it a try.

[**Download Silkwave Voice from the Mac App Store**](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/silkwave-voice-ai-note-taker/id6758550154)