EddyLoop listens while you work and writes what you say to plain text log files on your disk. The model runs on your machine. No audio leaves it, and nothing needs a network.
One time payment, 3 machines. Free tier gives you 30 minutes a day, no card.
EddyLoop listening One installer per platform. The speech model downloads once, then never phones home.
Click the tray icon. Blue means the microphone is live. There is no key to hold.
Speech is transcribed as it happens. The swirl fills to show what is being heard.
One timestamped text file per day, in a folder you choose. Grep it, sync it, delete it.
Transcription happens on your CPU or GPU. There is no account required to run it, no telemetry in the transcription path, and no server that could be breached, because there is no server. Sign in exists for one reason, to hold your license and your downloads.
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pausedBlue means the microphone is live, and how full the swirl is says what is being heard. You never have to wonder whether it is recording.
Hands on a part, not a keyboard. Say the measurement, find it in the log at the end of the day.
Talk out a draft while you walk the room. The transcript is a plain file your editor already opens.
Air gapped machines, patient or client confidentiality, anywhere a cloud transcriber is not allowed.
One person, up to 3 machines, no subscription. Try it first on the free tier, 30 minutes of transcription a day with no card and no account.
A few here, the rest on the FAQ page. Answers are full sentences so they can win a search snippet.
Yes. After the first install the speech model is on your disk and transcription never contacts a server. A license is checked once and then cached for 30 days, so an offline machine keeps working.
No. EddyLoop is an open mic recorder. You arm it once and it transcribes in the background until you pause or disarm it.
Into one timestamped .txt file per day, in a folder you pick. Nothing is stored in a database and nothing is encrypted, so any text tool can read them.
One person, up to 3 machines, all 2.x updates. No subscription and no per minute charge.
It does less on purpose. No voice commands, no formatting engine, no upload. It listens and it writes files.
