Transcripted for Journalists and Researchers

The context problem for journalists and researchers

Journalists and researchers are drowning in context. You're recording interviews, conducting research, building sources, making commitments. Every conversation is a potential story. Every meeting is a research opportunity. And every cloud transcription service is sending your data to third parties.

When you're building a story, you need to remember what you said, what you promised, what you learned. When you're protecting sources, you need to know what your team is working on. When you're reviewing interviews, you need to track feedback across dozens of meetings.

Transcripted keeps it on your Mac.

How it works — no setup required

Transcripted saves every meeting as a markdown file in ~/Documents/Transcripted/. Each file includes speaker-labeled dialogue with timestamps, YAML frontmatter with metadata (date, duration, speakers, word count), and Qwen-inferred speaker names.

To connect your research: point your notes at the Transcripted folder. The files are already in markdown format with frontmatter that any tool can parse. No cloud sync, no third-party integrations, no data leaving your machine.

No cloud processing. No data sharing. No subscriptions. Just files on disk.

What your research can do with this

Once your research can see your meeting history, you can query and control data like:

These queries work because Transcripted produces structured, machine-readable output — not PDFs, not proprietary formats, not cloud-locked data. Plain markdown that your research can control and analyze.

Why local matters for journalists and researchers

Cloud transcription services like Granola send your data to third-party servers. That means your research data is stored on servers you don't control, processed by algorithms you can't audit, and potentially accessible to employees you don't know. You're trusting a third party to protect your most sensitive conversations.

Transcripted's architecture eliminates the middleman. The files are on your Mac. Your research team controls the data. No API calls to external services, no data leaving your machine, no third-party access. The privacy guarantee is structural, not contractual.

The persistent speaker identity advantage

Most transcription tools give you "Speaker 1" and "Speaker 2." Transcripted builds voice fingerprints for each person and remembers them across meetings — weeks and months later. When your research asks "what did Marcus say about the API?", it works because Transcripted knows which speaker is Marcus and has been labeling him correctly across 50 meetings.

That's the context quality that makes research queries actually useful.