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Hi andrewb141,

When you purchase this tool you get access to all future updates for free.

You just need to download the latest version, which I published recently. It is now at v2.7.2 for both Windows and macOS.

Your itchio account should allow you to download it without any issues. 

Glad the GPU acceleration is working well on your 7900 XTX!

As you say, the stuck/repeating lines are basically coming from Whisper itself.

A few things that you could try on the app today:

- Try with a different model (smaller or larger). This sometimes fixes some issues.

- Set the spoken language explicitly in Settings instead of Auto Detection.

- Prefer cleaner dialogue audio when you can to avoid background noise.

There’s no perfect switch for it yet though, Whisper can still loop sometimes.

Hi karam.winsas@gmail.com,

I just published v2.7.2 which comes with another output option that saves a .srt file with one word per line.

Check it out!

Hi Maffers80,

GPU acceleration is done with Vulkan, which should work with AMD cards if the driver supports it. Here's some official info about Vulkan driver support for AMD

The models used in the app are simply a subset of the current ones. Largest bundled model is large-v1 as those were the ones that created the best outputs, and I don't want to increase even more the size of the app, the slider goes tiny→large-v1.

If you want to use a different model, you can do it by simply overwriting the model file itself (keep the same names though for the program to work). For example you can overwrite large-v1 with large-v2 and when the slider is at the most accurate one it will use large-v2 (it will load a model called large-v1 but the contents will be the large-v2 model). 

That way you should be able to run any similar model that you want.

You can download older version using the itch.io app, the website always shows the latest one only.

But I just published v2.7.1 which should fix your issue, so no need to go back to a previous one.

Hi Maffers80, thanks for the detailed report, and sorry about that.

You were right: it wasn’t your AMD GPU. Version 2.7.0 had a bug and you found it. That's fixed in v2.7.1. Please update from the itch.io page and try again with that same file, it should work normally now.

Sorry for the hassle, and thanks again for buying it and taking the time to write this up. If anything still looks off after updating, let me know.

Hi edesge,

That's almost certainly a false positive. Please try the new v2.7.0 build and let me know if Defender still flags it.

Hi wtinjalanugraha,

I just published v2.7 which should fix those issues and also it now supports timestamps per word based on the  Enhanced LRC format (.lrc)  

Hi Karam,

I just published v2.7 which comes with word-timed lyrics (.lrc) using the Enhanced LRC standard as one of the outputs. Check it out!

Nice, thank you!

Great to hear it worked for you Dr Patriot!

Hi edesge,

Most probably it is a false positive, but i will have a look at it and see why that's happening.

Hi Hmabad,

You can just download the new version. They are independent, so you can keep multiple versions if you want, or just keep the latest and delete the older ones if you want.

Here are the devices that can run the latest macOS

https://support.apple.com/en-us/122867

Also worth noting that PrivateTranscriberPro only will work with the M series macs. Intel based macs won't work. 

Basically it should work with all M1/M2/M3/M4/M5 based macs, which means you need to have a Mac from at most 2020 (mac mini M1 is the oldest one to be supported)

Hi Hatch,

I just updated Private Transcriber Pro to v2.6.4 which brings batch processing of files, so now you can just drag and drop a bunch of files and it will process them one by one. I thought you might want to know.

Hi abadhernan,

I just published Private Transcriber Pro v2.6.4 which now allows you to add a queue of files to transcribe. I thought you might want to hear about this.

Hi wtinjalanugraha,

I just published Private Transcriber Pro v2.6.4 which brings batch processing, that means you can now drag and drop a bunch of files and walk away as you wanted!

Hey therealdrl,

Just updated Private Transcriber Pro to v2.6.4 which brings batch processing. I think you might be interested to know as you were requesting this feature.

Hey pityadd,

I just updated Private Transcriber Pro to v2.6.4 with batch transcription, so make sure to install this one!

Hey izymc, 

I just published an update, v2.6.4, which brings batch transcription and updated underlying libraries.

Try it now and see if it works!

Hi izymc,

Let's make it work.

What specific version of macOS are you using? (macOS Tahoe 26.5?)

And is it an Intel based or Apple Silicon chip?

It might be that Apple doesn't allow you to run an app made for an older version of the OS?

I will be publishing an update soon anyway, so hang tight!

Hi pityadd,

You can keep the older version if you want as they're independent.

The settings or options will be shared by all of them though, so probably it is best to just use the latest version, but you are free to do whatever you want. It's your software!

Hi JibbySauce

You can save as txt now, just need to select that format before saving.

Separation of speakers is in the plan.

Hi, the demo works exactly in the same way that the full version works, just with some limitations.

If you tried the demo, and it didn't work, then you should not have bought it.

Also, the software works, as you can see from hundreds of happy paying customers.

You can absolutely start a refund process with itchio, but please be honest.

Hey, the demo works exactly in the same way that the full version works, just with some limitations.

If you tried the demo, and it didn't work, then you should not have bought it.

Also, the software works, as you can see from hundreds of happy paying customers.

You can absolutely start a refund process with itchio, but please be honest.

Those are the rules of the model i used. I just copied them here as the same applies.

You can try the demo for free first and see if it works for you.

Hi hardworking323,

Thanks for the detailed description of the issue.

I see where the issue is. Basically Private Transcriber Pro uses optimised x86_64 instructions to speed up the transcription process. Since ARM doesn't have those instructions, it just crashes.

There might be support for Windows on ARM in the future, but it is low in the priority, so it's basically an unsupported platform at the moment.

Hi vbanci, 

You can simply click on Download right here, no need to search for anything else...

Here's a screenshot of where to click:

Hi Faboineag,

The files are hosted at itch.io, which are not managed by me. Here is a post from them explaining what you can do if you're having issues with the downloads: https://itch.io/post/597689

I hope this helps.

Hi ultracolathompson,

Sometimes the model gets confused if there are other sounds as well. Some things you could try are basically choosing a different model (select one that is more accurate or one that is faster), and also you could split the input into smaller sections, specially at the times that it is getting these issues.

Hope that helps!

As mentioned before, I've just released v2.5.1, which allows you now to choose the language manually.

Hi Mirko66,

I've just released v2.5.1, which adds the ability to manually choose the language of the input audio. This should fix the issue when the automatic language detection doesn't work properly.

Great, thanks for the link cmbruse.

I will add that format in a future version.

Hi jairoaf,

I've just released v2.5.1, which adds the ability to manually set which language the audio is in. This should help you when the automatic language detection doesn't work properly. Note that it does only work with one language per input file.

Hi michellekrollerlaw,

I've just released v2.5.1, which fixes the issue you were having in macOS.

Hi michellekrollerlaw,

Thanks for bringing this to my attention.

I just tested this on my macOS machine with Sequoia 15.5 and you're absolutely right!. 

This is curious as I recently published v2.4.2 to fix another GUI issue on macOS and it was definitely working fine then. 

Anyway, I will fix this issue for the next release which should be coming soon!

Hi soulrider4ever,

You can use the Windows version in Linux with wine

wine ./PrivateTranscriberPro.exe

Hi cmbruse,

I am not familiar with the NVivo program, but if there is any other standard output that would be useful, then I could have a look at it.

Hi jairoaf,

Yes, the automatic detection uses the start of the audio and sometimes it might guess incorrectly.

I am preparing a new version that will allow the user to select the language manually as well, so it should fix this issue. 

Hi ultracolathompson,

If you experience some of those issues, probably the simplest way to fix it is to select a different model, either a more accurate or a faster one.