Audient is a local-first knowledge base for the audio you already make
Audient is a local-first knowledge base for the audio you already make. Drop in meetings and voice memos, talks and lectures, calls and interviews — anything you record. Audient transcribes them on-device, indexes the whole archive, and makes it searchable in plain English. Nothing leaves your Mac. WHAT IT DOES • Local-first semantic search. Ask in plain English; Audient returns the exact passages from across every recording in your library. Embeddings are computed and stored on your Mac. • On-device transcription. A speech model runs locally and produces word-level timestamps for everything you capture. Audio never leaves the device. Works offline — on a plane, in a basement, anywhere. • Citations you can paste. Every result links back to the exact second in the source recording. Copy a quote and Audient pastes the verbatim line, the file, and the timestamp, ready to drop into a doc or a Slack message. • Bring your own LLM. Audient exposes a local MCP server on your Mac. Pair it with a local LLM like Ollama to keep everything on your machine — or with a hosted one like Claude Desktop if you'd rather not run a model yourself. Audient itself stays put either way. WHY LOCAL-FIRST No accounts. No cloud. No syncing. No telemetry on what you said. The transcripts live in a SQLite database on your Mac, and the search index sits next to it. You can back the whole thing up by copying a folder. WHO IT'S FOR Anyone with a growing pile of recordings they'd like to search rather than re-listen to. Founders trying to find what a customer said three calls ago. Researchers re-reading lectures. Therapists keeping voice memos on their phone. Anyone who's already privacy-conscious enough that "send your audio to the cloud" was never going to fly. REQUIREMENTS • macOS 26 or later • Apple silicon required • 8 GB RAM minimum, 16 GB recommended • ~3 GB free disk space (on-device model + first library) ONE PRICE, PAID ONCE Audient is a one-off purchase on the Mac App Store. No subscription, no usage tier, no metering. Buy once, own it. ABOUT ASYNC DIGITAL Async Digital builds apps for Apple platforms. Audient is its first app — a macOS app that uses on-device AI to transcribe and search the audio and video you give it. async-digital.com
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