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Record a conversation and see the text appear live. Translate, summarize, and find it later — with powerful models running on your iPhone or iPad.

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Live captions

Local processing

Multilingual

Live Transcriber showing a live bilingual transcript on iPhone

From sound to memory

Capture. Understand. Find it again.

Capture as it happens

Live transcription keeps pace with a lecture, interview, or passing thought — even without a network connection.

Live Transcriber showing original and translated captions together

Understand across languages

Read bilingual captions in real time, then re-transcribe with an on-device model when you want more detail.

On-device transcription models in Live Transcriber

Return to what matters

Turn long recordings into structured notes, action items, and searchable moments without replaying everything.

Real capability · On device

The right engine, live and offline.

Live captions and saved-recording transcription use different on-device engines. Availability depends on language, device, region, and downloaded models.

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Live · Apple On-Device, Nemotron 3.5 Streaming; optional Sortformer 4-Speaker labels

Offline · Parakeet V3, Qwen3-ASR, Whisper, and MOSS Multi-Speaker

Audio sources · built-in, external, and Bluetooth microphones; Screen Audio shared by other apps

Recording · 24-bit PCM WAV, AAC M4A, or Apple Lossless M4A; mono/stereo at 16–48 kHz

Language coverage

See exactly which languages each engine understands.

Fixed model lists are shown below. Apple system features are resolved on the current device and can vary by OS version.

Live transcription iOS

Apple On-Device

The complete list comes from iOS SpeechTranscriber on the current device. Live Transcriber shows that device-specific list in the app.

Speaker labels 4

Sortformer 4-Speaker

Language-independent: it separates and labels up to four speakers alongside any live transcription engine.

Offline re-transcription 50+

MOSS Multi-Speaker

The upstream model supports 50+ languages with automatic detection. The app does not apply a fixed language allowlist.

Live translation iOS

Apple Translation

Source and target languages—and valid pairs—come from Apple Translation on the current device.

Live transcriptionNemotron 3.5 Streaming 83 languagesView language list

Afrikaans (South Africa)af-ZA
American Englishen-US
Amharic (Ethiopia)am-ET
Arabic (Argentina)ar-AR
Armenian (Armenia)hy-AM
Aymara (Bolivia)ay-BO
Azerbaijani (Azerbaijan)az-AZ
Bangla (India)bn-IN
Brazilian Portuguesept-BR
British Englishen-GB
Bulgarian (Bulgaria)bg-BG
Canadian Frenchfr-CA
Chinese (China)zh-CN
Chinese (Taiwan)zh-TW
Croatian (Croatia)hr-HR
Czech (Czechia)cs-CZ
Danish (Denmark)da-DK
Dutch (Netherlands)nl-NL
Estonian (Estonia)et-EE
European Portuguesept-PT
European Spanishes-ES
Finnish (Finland)fi-FI
French (France)fr-FR
Georgian (Georgia)ka-GE
German (Germany)de-DE
Greek (Greece)el-GR
Guarani (Paraguay)gn-PY
Gujarati (India)gu-IN
Hausa (Nigeria)ha-NG
Hawaiian (United States)haw-US
Hebrew (Israel)he-IL
Hindi (India)hi-IN
Hungarian (Hungary)hu-HU
Igbo (Nigeria)ig-NG
Indonesian (Indonesia)id-ID
Italian (Italy)it-IT
Japanese (Japan)ja-JP
Kannada (India)kn-IN
Khmer (Cambodia)km-KH
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda)rw-RW
Korean (South Korea)ko-KR
Kurdish (Türkiye)ku-TR
Kyrgyz (Kyrgyzstan)ky-KG
Latvian (Latvia)lv-LV
Lingala (Congo - Kinshasa)ln-CD
Lithuanian (Lithuania)lt-LT
Malay (Malaysia)ms-MY
Malayalam (India)ml-IN
Maltese (Malta)mt-MT
Māori (New Zealand)mi-NZ
Marathi (India)mr-IN
nah (Mexico)nah-MX
Nepali (Nepal)ne-NP
Norwegian (Norway)no-NO
Norwegian Bokmål (Norway)nb-NO
Norwegian Nynorsk (Norway)nn-NO
Nyanja (Malawi)ny-MW
Odia (Kenya)or-KE
Persian (Iran)fa-IR
Polish (Poland)pl-PL
Quechua (Peru)qu-PE
Romanian (Romania)ro-RO
Russian (Russia)ru-RU
Samoan (Samoa)sm-WS
Sinhala (Sri Lanka)si-LK
Slovak (Slovakia)sk-SK
Slovenian (Slovenia)sl-SI
Somali (Somalia)so-SO
Spanish (United States)es-US
Swahili (Kenya)sw-KE
Swedish (Sweden)sv-SE
Tajik (Tajikistan)tg-TJ
Tamil (India)ta-IN
Telugu (India)te-IN
Thai (Thailand)th-TH
Tongan (Tonga)to-TO
Turkish (Türkiye)tr-TR
Ukrainian (Ukraine)uk-UA
Urdu (Pakistan)ur-PK
Uzbek (Uzbekistan)uz-UZ
Vietnamese (Vietnam)vi-VN
Yoruba (Nigeria)yo-NG
Zulu (South Africa)zu-ZA

Offline re-transcriptionParakeet V3 25 languagesView language list

Bulgarianbg
Croatianhr
Czechcs
Danishda
Dutchnl
Englishen
Estonianet
Finnishfi
Frenchfr
Germande
Greekel
Hungarianhu
Italianit
Latvianlv
Lithuanianlt
Maltesemt
Polishpl
Portuguesept
Romanianro
Russianru
Slovaksk
Sloveniansl
Spanishes
Swedishsv
Ukrainianuk

Offline re-transcriptionQwen3-ASR 30 languagesView language list

Arabicar
Cantoneseyue
Czechcs
Danishda
Dutchnl
Englishen
Filipinofil
Finnishfi
Frenchfr
Germande
Greekel
Hindihi
Hungarianhu
Indonesianid
Italianit
Japaneseja
Koreanko
Macedonianmk
Malayms
Persianfa
Polishpl
Portuguesept
Romanianro
Russianru
Simplified Chinesezh-Hans
Spanishes
Swedishsv
Thaith
Turkishtr
Vietnamesevi

Offline re-transcriptionWhisper 101 languagesView language list

.en models support English only. Multilingual models support the list below; Cantonese requires a large-v3 model.

Afrikaansaf
Albaniansq
Amharicam
Arabicar
Armenianhy
Assameseas
Azerbaijaniaz
Banglabn
Bashkirba
Basqueeu
Belarusianbe
Bosnianbs
Bretonbr
Bulgarianbg
Burmesemy
Cantoneseyue
Catalanca
Croatianhr
Czechcs
Danishda
Dutchnl
Englishen
Estonianet
Faroesefo
Filipinotl
Finnishfi
Frenchfr
Galiciangl
Georgianka
Germande
Greekel
Gujaratigu
Haitian Creoleht
Hausaha
Hawaiianhaw
Hebrewhe
Hindihi
Hungarianhu
Icelandicis
Indonesianid
Italianit
Japaneseja
Javanesejw
Kannadakn
Kazakhkk
Khmerkm
Koreanko
Laolo
Latinla
Latvianlv
Lingalaln
Lithuanianlt
Luxembourgishlb
Macedonianmk
Malagasymg
Malayms
Malayalamml
Maltesemt
Māorimi
Marathimr
Mongolianmn
Nepaline
Norwegianno
Norwegian Nynorsknn
Occitanoc
Pashtops
Persianfa
Polishpl
Portuguesept
Punjabipa
Romanianro
Russianru
Sanskritsa
Serbiansr
Shonasn
Simplified Chinesezh-Hans
Sindhisd
Sinhalasi
Slovaksk
Sloveniansl
Somaliso
Spanishes
Sundanesesu
Swahilisw
Swedishsv
Tajiktg
Tamilta
Tatartt
Telugute
Thaith
Tibetanbo
Traditional Chinesezh-Hant
Turkishtr
Turkmentk
Ukrainianuk
Urduur
Uzbekuz
Vietnamesevi
Welshcy
Yiddishyi
Yorubayo

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