IN DEVELOPMENTNot on the Mac App Store yet. Download it here and follow the install steps.VOCALSTACK FOR MAC

Every app, in your language

Live transcripts of your calls, floating captions over any video, and transcripts of any app or file, translated into the language you read. All from the menu bar.

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macOS

MACOS 14.2 OR LATER · SEE THE INSTALL STEPS

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Wed 21 Oct 16:12

Zoom Meeting

PSPriya Shah

DODaniel Okafor

LVLena Vogt

MRMarcus Reed

VocalStacknow

Zoom call started. Record it to get a live transcript, and a summary when it ends.

When a call starts in Zoom, Teams, Webex or Discord, a notification offers to record it. Dismiss it and the Now tab still offers the call.

WHAT IT DOES

Whatever your Mac is playing

Pick a language in Read in at the top of the panel. Transcripts and captions appear in that language, or leave it on As spoken to keep the original.

Any app, or the whole Mac

Record one app, everything your Mac plays, or just your microphone. Add your microphone to an app so your own voice is in the transcript.

Meetings with a summary

When a call starts in Zoom, Teams, Webex or Discord, a notification offers to record it. You get a live transcript, and a summary when it ends.

Captions that float

Subtitles in a floating window you can drag anywhere, even over full-screen video. Change the spoken language or speaker labels right from the captions.

Files from Finder

Drop audio or video on the menu bar icon, or right-click a file in Finder. Each file becomes its own transcript.

WORKS WITH

Any app that makes a sound

Record one app, everything your Mac plays, or just your microphone. Calls in these apps are offered for recording as soon as they start.

Zoom

Microsoft Teams

Webex

DiscordSafari, Music and any other app

macOS asks you to allow system audio the first time you record an app or the whole Mac.

IN THE MENU BAR

Your whole account, one click away

Now

See what the front app is playing. Record the call you’re in, or turn on captions for the video in your browser.

Live

Choose one app, the whole Mac or the microphone, set the spoken language, then record.

Upload

Choose files or drop them in. Each one becomes its own transcript, and transcribing carries on when the panel closes.

Broadcasts

Start and manage live broadcasts that listeners follow in their own language.

Voices

Your cloned voice and the stock voices used for dubbing.

Library

Every transcript you’ve made, from the Mac app, the extension and the Dashboard.

Press ⌃⌥⌘R in any app to start or stop recording. You can change the shortcut in Settings.

Uses your VocalStack account

What you transcribe and translate uses your account’s credit, just like the Dashboard. Your transcripts sync with your account.

Create an Account Get an API Key

Sign in with VocalStack

One click. You sign in in your browser and come straight back to the menu bar.

Or paste an API key

Create a key under Developers in the Dashboard and paste it in. Keys start with vs_key_, and it’s stored in your Mac’s keychain.

Frequently Asked Questions

: Over 100 languages. Pick one in Read in at the top of the panel, and transcripts and captions follow it. As spoken keeps everything in the original language.
: Any app that plays sound. Choose One app to record only that app, Whole Mac for everything your Mac plays, or Mic only. When a call starts in Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Webex or Discord, a notification offers to record it.
: Yes, when Include my microphone is on. It is on by default when you record a meeting, so both sides of the call are transcribed.
: Each line is labelled with its speaker. Speaker labels is set to When needed by default, so labels appear once a second voice is heard. Change it to On or Off in Settings, or from the speakers button on the floating captions.
: Transcribe the video with Transcribe This Video, then play it dubbed from your Library.
: After the app and the time the recording started, such as Zoom call · 16:12. Turn on Name meetings from my calendar in Settings to use the event happening now instead.
: What you transcribe and translate uses your account’s credit, exactly as it would in the Dashboard. The rates are on the Pricing page.
: macOS 14.2 or later.
: Not yet. VocalStack for Mac is still in development, so for now you download it from this page and install it by following the install steps. A Mac App Store listing comes later.
: This early version isn’t notarized by Apple yet, so macOS asks you to confirm it the first time you open it. Click Done, then open System Settings → Privacy & Security and click Open Anyway. You do this once for each version you install.

INSTALL

Up and running in a minute

VocalStack for Mac isn’t on the Mac App Store yet, so you download it here and confirm it in System Settings the first time you open it. It takes about a minute. It lives in the menu bar, with no Dock icon and no window to keep open.

Permissions it asks for

MicrophoneRecords your voice.

System audioRecords what your apps play.

AutomationReads the video playing in your browser.

NotificationsFor the meeting prompt.

CalendarOptional. Names meetings from the event happening now.

macOS 14.2 or later

01Click Download for Mac and open vocalstack-mac.dmg.

02Drag VocalStack into your Applications folder.

03Open VocalStack from Applications. macOS says it can’t verify the app; click Done. This early version isn’t notarized by Apple yet.

04Open System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll down to Security and click Open Anyway next to VocalStack. Enter your Mac’s password, then click Open Anyway again. Its icon appears in the menu bar.

05Click the icon and sign in with VocalStack, or paste an API key.

06Allow the microphone and system audio when macOS asks. You can change these later in Settings, under Permissions.

07Press ⌃⌥⌘R in any app to start recording.

Download for Mac

Updating to a new version

Quit VocalStack from its menu, download the disk image again and drag VocalStack into Applications, replacing the old one. Open it and click Open Anyway in Privacy & Security once more.