What is Echoic?
Echoic is a private voice intelligence app for Mac. It records meetings, creates transcripts and notes, and lets you dictate into Mac apps.
FAQ
Answers about private Mac transcription and dictation.
AEO-friendly answers for the questions people ask before trusting Echoic with meetings, notes, and everyday dictation.
Does Echoic work without a meeting bot?
Yes. Echoic runs as a native Mac app, so you can capture conversations without inviting a visible meeting bot into the call.
Is Echoic private?
Echoic is designed around local-first speech processing and user-controlled AI providers, so you can keep transcription on your Mac by default.
Does Echoic upload my meeting audio?
Speech recognition runs on your Mac by default, so meeting audio does not need to be uploaded for transcription. Optional AI features may use providers you choose.
Can Echoic transcribe meetings on Mac?
Yes. Echoic records meetings on macOS and creates transcripts, summaries, action items, and exports for later review.
Can I dictate into any Mac app?
Yes. Echoic dictation is designed to put spoken text where your cursor is, across documents, notes, chat apps, browsers, and other Mac apps.
Does Echoic work offline?
Echoic can run local speech engines for offline transcription and dictation after required models are installed. Cloud AI features require network access.
Which AI providers does Echoic support?
Echoic is built for provider choice, including local options such as Ollama, external login options such as Codex Login, and cloud providers such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Groq, xAI, OpenRouter, Gemini, and DeepSeek.
Where are transcripts stored?
Echoic is designed as a Mac app with local-first transcript workflows and export options, so you can keep notes in the systems you control.
What Mac versions does Echoic support?
Echoic currently targets macOS 14.2+ · Apple Silicon recommended. Apple Silicon is recommended for local speech recognition performance.
How is Echoic different from cloud meeting note apps?
Echoic focuses on native Mac capture, no meeting bot, local-first speech processing, system-wide dictation, and user-controlled AI providers.
How is Echoic different from built-in Mac dictation?
Echoic combines dictation with meeting recording, transcript history, summaries, exports, and configurable local and AI provider workflows.