Planned Release Date: Q4 2026

About This Software

Your audio never leaves your computer

ChimpType turns speech into text and automatically labels who is speaking when a recording has multiple speakers, entirely on your own hardware. No cloud service, no file uploads, no account, no "we may use your data to improve our models." Drop in a recording and it stays on your machine from the first second to the final transcript.

That makes ChimpType a fit for the audio you can't just hand to a website: client calls, interviews, medical and legal recordings, journalists' source tapes, confidential meetings, and research data. It is private by architecture, not by policy. Unplug your network and ChimpType keeps right on working.

Green AI: a laptop, not a datacenter

Cloud transcription ships your audio to racks of power-hungry GPUs running around the clock. ChimpType does the same job on the computer already on your desk. A transcription model running on an Apple Silicon MacBook Air draws a tiny fraction of the electricity a datacenter node burns for the same work, with no idle server farm humming on standby waiting for your upload. Same transcript, a rounding error of the energy and carbon.

What it does

• Accurate speech-to-text. Powered by OpenAI's Whisper, running locally on your GPU or CPU.
  
• Multiple speakers, automatically labeled. Speaker diarization separates and labels each voice in a conversation, so you get a clean record of who said what.
  
• Two modes. Quick whole-file transcription, or a full speaker-by-speaker breakdown with color-coded segments.
  
• Edit everything. Fix a word, rename speakers, and tidy the transcript inline before you export.
  
• Export anywhere. Plain text, SRT subtitles, or JSON.
  
• Cross-platform. Windows, macOS (Apple Silicon), and Linux.
  
• Fully offline. Once installed, ChimpType makes zero network calls.

Who it's for

Podcasters and video editors who need subtitles. Journalists and researchers transcribing interviews. Lawyers and clinicians handling confidential audio. Students turning lectures into notes. Anyone who wants a fast, accurate transcript without handing the recording to someone else's servers.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

ChimpType is an AI application. Its core feature uses AI speech recognition and speaker diarization models, running entirely on your own device, to transcribe audio you provide and label who is speaking. Generative AI was also used to produce this store page's assets, including the artwork and the trailer. The trailer's narration was generated with ChimpChat, ChimpType's sister app.