Getting started
Install pktito, choose a speech model, and transcribe your first recording.
Install
Download pktito for your system from the download page.
| System | Needs | Installer |
|---|---|---|
| macOS | macOS 12 or later, Apple silicon | A disk image: drag pktito to Applications. |
| Windows | Windows 10 or 11, x64 or Arm64 | A setup program, which also puts pktito-cli on the PATH. |
| Linux | glibc 2.34 or later (Ubuntu 22.04, Debian 12, Raspberry Pi OS 12), x86-64 or Arm64 | A .deb, with ffmpeg as a dependency. |
Windows N editions need the Media Feature Pack, or ffmpeg, to read audio and video.
Choose a model
On first launch pktito offers two speech models, with the one for your system’s language already chosen:
- English: parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2, 624 MB.
- Multilingual: parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3, 25 European languages, 648 MB.
The download can be paused, and resumes where it stopped. To skip it, choose I already have a model file…. Models has both files.
Transcribe
Drop audio or video files on the window, or click Choose files…. The text appears as the recording is transcribed. Several files dropped together are transcribed in turn, as a batch.
Finished transcripts stay on the start screen’s Recent list.
Read along
Press Space to play, or click a sentence’s time to play from there. The word being spoken is underlined as the transcript follows along.
- Speed: < and > change it, from 0.75× to 2×.
- Find: Ctrl+F (⌘F on a Mac).
- Times: click the time beside the play button to switch between seconds and frames.
Saving covers the formats a transcript can be saved in.