App for macOS
Trillian
The macOS app that sends your voice memos to Deep Thought Cloud and writes the transcripts into your notes.
- Runs on
- macOS 13 or later, in the menu bar; macOS 11 and 12 with trillian-capture. Alpha.
- Plan
- Free
- Release
- 1.6.0-alpha.13
What it does
- Watches Apple Voice Memos on your Mac and uploads each new recording to Deep Thought Cloud.
- Writes each transcript into a folder of plain text files on your Mac, your vault, next to your own notes.
- Brings down the recordings you made on the iPhone with record-me, so the folder holds everything.
- Sends the recordings that were already in Voice Memos when you ask, and finishes any recording it was still working on if the Mac was restarted. Nothing is transcribed twice.
Get it
Download Trillian 1.6.0-alpha.13 (zip, about 3 MB)
Unzip it, move Trillian.app to Applications and open it. Trillian is signed and notarised by Apple, so it opens like any other app. A small icon appears in the menu bar; there is no Dock icon.
To connect it to your account, choose Settings… → Captures → Connect to Deep Thought…. Your browser opens on the Web App, where you are signed in; check that the code matches and approve. Trillian never asks for your password: it keeps a device token for this Mac, which you can revoke in the Web App.
Reading Voice Memos needs Full Disk Access. Trillian says when it is missing and opens the right System Settings pane; restart Trillian after granting it.
On an older Mac
The app needs macOS 13. On macOS 11 or 12, trillian-capture does the capture part without the menu: it watches Voice Memos, uploads each new recording and writes the transcript into your folder, by default in iCloud Drive so you can read it on your phone. It runs in Terminal and starts by itself at login; the instructions (README.md) are in the zip. It has the same actions as the app, as commands: sync brings down your transcripts from Deep Thought (record-me recordings too), retry sends what was skipped or failed, import-existing sends the recordings already in Voice Memos.
Download trillian-capture 1.6.0-alpha.13 (zip, Intel and Apple Silicon)
What it does not do
- It does not transcribe on your Mac. The recording goes to Deep Thought Cloud, and the transcript comes back.
- It does not run on Windows, Linux or the web.