Interview transcription that protects your source
A recorded interview is often the most sensitive thing a reporter holds. Upload it to a transcription service and you have made a copy of your source’s words, stored on a company’s servers, reachable by their staff and, in principle, by anyone who can compel them. Source protection does not survive that trip to the cloud.
talat transcribes on your own machine and uploads nothing. The recording and the transcript stay on the device you made them on, which is where a source’s trust assumes they are.
You can't subpoena a server that never had it.
The strongest protection for a confidential recording is for no third party to have a copy in the first place. A cloud transcription vendor is a third party with a copy: subject to their retention, their jurisdiction, and any request that lands on them. Keeping the audio on your own machine removes that exposure entirely, because there is no external copy to reach.
talat runs the transcription locally, with the AI bundled in the app, so nothing about the interview is sent anywhere to be turned into text.
A usable transcript, fast.
Record the interview in person or over a call your computer is playing, and talat transcribes it locally, separates the voices, and attributes each line, so a two-person interview reads cleanly rather than as one undifferentiated block. It handles a long sit- down comfortably faster than replaying it, and works with no connection at all, which is handy in the field.
You can also import recordings you already have; the guide to transcribing an audio file covers that, all of it still on your own machine.
More on how this works.
For the mechanics, see how on-device transcription works, and the other professions with the same requirement are on the use-case overview.
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