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Turn recordings into transcripts, summaries, and documents you can actually use.

Sbobino helps students and professionals transform lessons, meetings, interviews, and voice notes into clear, reusable material — all inside a local-first desktop workflow.

Sbobino home screen — import audio files and manage transcription history
Try It

Hear it. See it. Get it.

Play a real NASA Artemis II audio clip and watch Sbobino transcribe it live — word by word, speaker by speaker.

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A real NASA Artemis II audio clip — transcribed live, just like Sbobino does it.

Features

Everything you need after pressing stop.

From raw recording to finished document — Sbobino handles the tedious part of sbobinare so you can focus on understanding, editing, and sharing.

Local Transcription

Transcribe audio files locally on your Mac. See live progress, manage queues, and reopen past transcripts from history.

Transcript Cleanup

Improve readability with AI-assisted post-processing. Keep both original and optimized versions. Trim and create focused child transcripts.

Summaries & FAQs

Generate structured summaries and FAQ-style outputs. Turn long recordings into study-ready or work-ready material in seconds.

Chat with Transcripts

Ask questions directly on your transcript content. Recover facts and clarifications from long conversations without rewinding.

Speaker-Aware Review

Browse timestamped segments. Assign speaker labels. Use local diarization to tell who said what in multi-speaker recordings.

Professional Export

Export to TXT, DOCX, HTML, PDF, Markdown, CSV, JSON, SRT, and VTT. Include summaries and FAQs in your exports.

In Action

See what your recordings become.

A focused desktop workspace — from import to export, everything lives in one place.

Core Workspace

Your transcript, front and center.

The full transcript view with speaker panel, timestamped segments, confidence highlighting, and editing tools — everything about your recording in one focused workspace.

Sbobino transcript workspace with full text, speaker sidebar, and settings
Summaries

Long recording, short summary.

Generate structured, narrative summaries from any transcript. Sbobino identifies key topics, extracts main points, and produces clear, readable output.

Sbobino summary view with structured narrative output
Chat interface for asking questions about transcript content
Chat & Q&A

Ask your transcript anything.

Chat directly with your transcript content. Generate FAQs, recover facts, and find key moments — without rewinding through the original recording.

Speaker Diarization

Who said what.

Browse timestamped segments with speaker labels. Use local diarization to identify voices in multi-speaker recordings — meetings, interviews, and group conversations.

Speaker diarization view with labeled speakers and timestamped segments
Export dialog with format options including DOCX, PDF, SRT, and more

Export Everywhere

9+ formats — documents, subtitles, and structured data.

Emotion analysis timeline with segment-level emotional insights

Emotion Analysis

Understand the emotional tone of each segment and speaker.

Transcript with color-coded confidence highlighting and audio waveform

Confidence & Trimming

Color-coded accuracy, audio trimming, and re-transcription.

How It Works

From recording to reusable material in four steps.

01

Import

Drop an audio file or pick one from your library. Sbobino handles the rest — no setup, no cloud uploads.

02

Transcribe

Local transcription runs on your Apple Silicon. Watch progress in real time, manage queues, and revisit history.

03

Summarize & Ask

Generate summaries, FAQs, or chat with your transcript to find exactly what you need — without rewinding.

04

Export & Reuse

Export to 9+ formats. Share documents, subtitles, or structured data. From recording to deliverable in minutes.

Who It's For

Built for people who record first and organize later.

Students

Turn lectures into readable notes. Generate summaries after class. Create reusable study material from recordings. Less time replaying — more time understanding.

  • Lecture recordings to study notes
  • Auto-generated summaries and FAQs
  • Faster note recovery
  • Chat with your transcript to review

Professionals

Document meetings. Capture interviews. Turn conversations into searchable, structured outputs. From recording to summary to shared document.

  • Meeting recordings to action items
  • Interview transcripts with speaker labels
  • Export to DOCX, PDF, and more
  • Conversation to searchable knowledge
Desktop-First

A real app for your Mac.

Not a browser tab pretending to be an app. Sbobino is a native desktop workspace built for Apple Silicon.

Apple Silicon

Built natively for Apple Silicon Macs. Fast transcription without cloud uploads — your data stays on your machine.

Local-First

Your recordings and transcripts stay on your machine. Set up once, then get back to work quickly. No accounts, no subscriptions.

Lightweight

A focused desktop workspace that launches fast and stays out of the way. Managed runtime — no Homebrew or separate stacks needed.

Less rewinding. More understanding.

Sbobino turns lessons, meetings, and voice notes into transcripts, summaries, and documents you can actually use.

Download Sbobino Free and open source. For Apple Silicon Macs.
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