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Find anything you’ve heard

Audient transcribes the meetings, voice memos, and talks already on your Mac, then makes the archive searchable in plain English. On-device, no upload.

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what did the witness say about the second invoice
14 passages across 9 recordings
23:14Tue, 14:02

Interview, Marta Lindqvist

“The second invoice was the one that didn’t match the contract. I flagged it to my line manager in March and nothing happened. Then in May the auditors arrived.”

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04:38Mon, 09:11

Field note

“Reminder for myself, cross-check the second invoice figure against the filing the company made to Companies House. Marta said £48,000, the filing says £52,400.”

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41:02Fri, 16:30

Source call, former finance lead

“There were two invoices. The first one was clean. The second invoice went out a fortnight later and that’s the one nobody on the team had signed off.”

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12:5519 Apr

Background briefing, counsel

“On the record, the second invoice is the document the regulator will want to see first. Don’t lead with the email chain, lead with the invoice.”

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Cite “The second invoice was the one that didn’t match the contract. I flagged it in March and nothing happened.” interview-lindqvist-2026-04-21.m4a · 23:14
What it does

Four things, done locally.

Audient is small on purpose. It captures audio and video, turns them into searchable text on your Mac, and lets you cite the exact moment something was said. No accounts, no servers, no syncing.

Local-first semantic search

Ask in plain English and Audient returns the exact passages from across every meeting, call, and voice note in your library. Embeddings are computed and stored on your Mac.

Index·SQLite + on-device vectors

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.

Model·optimised for on-device inference

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.

Format·plain text, Markdown, or rich

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. Pair it with a hosted one like Claude Desktop if you’d rather not run a model yourself. Audient itself stays put either way.

Protocol·MCP (Model Context Protocol)
How it works

Set it up once, then drive it explicitly.

You decide what enters your library, what gets transcribed, and what gets indexed. Audient does nothing in the background.

  1. 01

    Bring in a recording

    Open a file with the picker, drop one onto the window, or share a recording into Audient from anywhere on your Mac. Audient never goes looking for files on its own.

    Open with the file picker Drag onto the window Share into Audient
  2. 02

    Audient transcribes locally

    Once you add a recording, the on-device model transcribes it with word-level timestamps. A small badge in the menu bar shows progress.

    No upload, no API key Catches up while you sleep Honours system Low Power mode
  3. 03

    Search and cite

    Hit ⌘K, ask in plain English. Results come back with a direct quote, the source file, and a clickable timestamp that opens the audio at exactly that moment.

    Semantic, not just keyword Filter by source or date Copy-as-citation in one keystroke
  4. 04

    Plug in an LLM (optional)

    Audient exposes its archive over a local HTTP endpoint. Any MCP-compatible LLM client can read it (Ollama, LM Studio, Claude Desktop, and others). Pair with a local LLM to keep everything on your Mac, or a hosted one if you’d rather not run a model yourself. Plain HTTP from your own script works too.

    Any MCP-compatible client Local or hosted LLM, your call Or plain HTTP from a script
Pricing

Free to try. One-time unlock, then it’s yours.

Audient is free to download, with a full trial. A single in-app purchase unlocks it for good. No subscription, no usage tier, no metering.

Audient for Mac
£39 One-time

Available at launch. Localised on the Mac App Store.

Free trial first, then yours forever. No subscription, no account, no cloud.

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