Lautnote transcribes interviews, lectures, podcasts and meetings, recognizes who is speaking and summarizes. Without cloud, account or subscription.
Measured on 29 Oct 2026 on one PC: AMD Ryzen 5 3600, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti (8 GB), Windows 11. The test audio was clear synthetic speech; real recordings with echo, dialect or crosstalk can take longer. Lautnote measures the speed on your PC and shows it in the app.
(01)How it works
Drop MP3, M4A, WAV, FLAC, OGG, MP4, MOV, MKV or WEBM into the window – or a whole folder. German and English are detected on their own.
With timestamps and speakers. Click a word and hear it; correct the text while you listen, at 1×, 1.5× or 2×.
A language model on your PC writes a short summary, decisions, tasks with owner and due date, and open points – each with a timestamp.
01Summary & questions
One click and you hear the passage again. Ask your transcript – Lautnote answers only from what was said, and says so when the answer is not in it.
(02)Meeting mode
Record Teams, Zoom or Meet in the browser without anyone joining the call. Lautnote hears only the sound of the app you choose and your microphone.
02Live
The transcript follows with about two seconds of delay. Next to it you write notes and set markers; both are saved with the transcript.
Teams, Zoom or your browser for Meet. Known meeting apps are preselected.
“All participants know notes are being taken” must be ticked, otherwise nothing starts.
Afterwards Lautnote recognizes the speakers; the voice on your microphone track becomes “You”.
(03)Speakers
03Speakers & editor
Lautnote recognizes the speakers and gives each a colour and initials. Rename them, merge or split them, and see who talked how much.
(04)Export
Five formats for documents, notes and video. Search looks through all your transcripts at once.
(05)Comparison
How Lautnote differs from three well-known tools. Facts from the makers' own pages, checked on 29 Oct 2026. Prices change – the sources have the latest.
| Feature | LautnoteWindows | MacWhisperMac | Otter.aiCloud | BuzzOpen Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Runs on | Windows 11 | macOS, plus an iPhone/iPad app; no Windows version [1] | Cloud service with web and mobile apps [2] | Windows, macOS (Apple silicon), Linux [4] |
| Where speech becomes text | On your PC | On your Mac with local models; cloud AI providers optional [1] | In the cloud; Otter uses providers such as Amazon Web Services for compute and storage [3] | On your PC, offline with Whisper [4] |
| Price | €59 once, 15-day free trial | Free version; Pro €64 once [1] | Basic free (300 min/month); Pro $16.99 per user/month, or $8.33/month billed yearly [2] | Free, open source (MIT) [4] |
| Meetings | Sound of one app plus your microphone as separate tracks, live transcript, no bot | Records Zoom, Teams, Webex and more; no bot joins [1] | Otter joins Zoom, Microsoft Teams and Google Meet to take notes [2] | Live transcription from the microphone [5] |
| Speakers | Detected, with names, colours and speaking time | Detected and labelled [1] | Speaker identification [2] | Speaker identification [4] |
| Summary | Language model on your PC; every point with a timestamp | AI features with your own API keys or local models (Ollama, LM Studio) [1] | Automated summaries and AI chat [2] | No summary feature listed [4] |
| Export | TXT, Markdown, DOCX, SRT, VTT | SRT, VTT, TXT, Markdown, PDF, HTML, DOCX [1] | TXT; DOCX, PDF and SRT from Pro [2] | TXT, SRT, VTT [4] |
Where the others are ahead: MacWhisper has a free version and more export formats, Otter works across devices and teams, and Buzz is free and also runs on macOS and Linux. Lautnote is for Windows users who want meetings, speakers and summaries on their own PC for a one-time price.
Checked on 29 Oct 2026
(06)Privacy
Not a promise in small print – this is how Lautnote is built. Here is what goes online, and when.
Audio, transcripts, notes and summaries are processed and stored on this PC. Nothing is uploaded.
No sign-up, no telemetry, no tracking in the app. Your Microsoft account is enough for the purchase.
Models are downloaded once from Hugging Face, only after you agree. The licence is checked through the Microsoft Store.
| What | Where or when |
|---|---|
| Recordings, transcripts, notes, summaries | In the app folder on your PC: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\Deskscene.Lautnote_7baf292wdw0j6\LocalState (Store version). Settings › Models and storage opens it. |
| Speech models | Same folder, downloaded once per model after you agree: from huggingface.co and its download servers (*.cdn.hf.co, cas-bridge.xethub.hf.co), each file checked with SHA-256. |
| Licence (trial, purchase) | Microsoft Store through Windows, at start and when you buy. Without internet, the last known licence applies. |
(07)Guides
Why local transcription keeps a step out of your data processing – and what you still have to do.
02Record only the Teams sound plus your microphone, with consent and a live transcript.
03From the recording to a summary and questions like “What is in the exam?”
04What MacWhisper does, what Windows users can use instead, with sources.
05From MP4 to a corrected SRT or VTT file in a few steps.
(08)Price
Every feature through the Microsoft Store trial. No account with us, no card.
Buy once for €59 – or don't.
Open, search and export keep working, with or without a licence.
One price
| Feature | Trial & licence | Without licence |
|---|---|---|
| Open, search and export transcripts | Yes | Yes |
| Correct text and speakers | Yes | Yes |
| New transcriptions (files, folders, drag and drop) | Yes | No |
| Record meetings | Yes | No |
| Detect speakers afterwards | Yes | No |
| Create summaries | Yes | NoSaved summaries stay visible |
| Ask your transcript | Yes | No |
| Watched folders | Yes | NoNew files are remembered and transcribed after you buy |
Sold by Microsoft through the Microsoft Store; payment and licence run through your Microsoft account. Store prices include VAT, and the Store shows the price in your currency.
(09)FAQ
Before every meeting recording, Lautnote asks you to confirm that all participants know notes are being taken – without the tick, nothing starts. Whether you may record depends on the country and the situation; in many places recording a conversation without the consent of everyone involved is not allowed.
Say it at the start and ask for consent, for example: I'd like to record this meeting with Lautnote to write the notes. The recording stays on my computer and is not uploaded. Is that okay for everyone?
This is not legal advice. For recordings at work, in research or with customers, have a professional (for example your data protection officer) check it briefly.
Windows 11, version 22H2 or later, 64-bit, with at least 8 GB of memory and 3 GB of free space for the models (Fast and summary). Recommended: a graphics card with Vulkan support and at least 6 GB of video memory, 16 GB of memory and 8 GB of free space for all models. Windows N editions need the Media Feature Pack to import audio and video.
Both work. With a graphics card (Vulkan), an hour of audio takes about two to three minutes with “Accurate” on our test PC (RTX 3060 Ti). Without a graphics card, “Fast” is the default and takes about 20 minutes per hour of audio on a 6-core processor; “Accurate” is slower than real time there. Lautnote measures the speed on your PC and shows it next to each model.
Yes. Once the models are on your PC, transcription, speakers, summary, questions, search and export run without internet. Lautnote only goes online to download a model (after you agree) and to check the Store licence; without internet the last known licence applies.
On your PC only, in the app folder (Store version: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\Deskscene.Lautnote_7baf292wdw0j6\LocalState). Settings › Models and storage shows the folder and lets you remove models. There is no account and no cloud copy, so back up the folder yourself if the recordings matter.
Without a licence you can still open, search and export your transcripts and correct text and speakers. New transcriptions, meeting recordings, speaker detection, summaries, questions and watched folders need the licence. Saved summaries stay visible; files that arrive in watched folders are remembered and transcribed after you buy.
We test and advertise German – including Austrian and Swiss German – and English. Lautnote detects the language on its own, or you set it. Whisper knows more languages; they may work, but we have not tested them. The app itself is in German and English.
Speech: “Fast” 181 MB, “Accurate” 547 MB, “Maximum” 1,031 MB. Speakers: 31 MB. Summary and questions: 4.7 GB on PCs with at least 8 GB of video memory, otherwise 2.3 GB. Each model is downloaded once, only when you first need it and after you agree.
Every feature, no account, no card. After that, your transcripts stay yours – open, search and export keep working.
€59 once · all 1.x updates included