Bardo 1.0.0

Bardo records or imports conversations and turns them into readable, searchable transcripts, entirely on your Mac.

Highlights

• A native Mac library. Three columns, like Mail and Notes: filters, a list you can drive from the keyboard, the conversation, and an inspector. One search field finds words, titles and people across the whole Library, ignores accents, and highlights matches in the transcript.
• Private transcription and speakers. WhisperKit (Whisper Large v3 Turbo) and SpeakerKit run on the Mac. Name or merge speakers and correct the text; Bardo keeps the original recognition.
• Recordings that survive the unexpected. Record the microphone, the Mac's audio, or both on separate tracks. Audio is written crash-safe, and interrupted captures can be recovered.
• Playback tied to the transcript. Click a timestamp to listen from there and follow each word as it plays.
• Share a transcript with speaker names and timestamps.

Requirements

• A Mac with Apple silicon and macOS 15 or later.
• About 650 MB for the local speech and speaker resources, downloaded on first launch. After that, Bardo works offline.

Install

Open the DMG and drag Bardo to Applications. This build is signed ad hoc and is not notarized yet, so macOS blocks the first launch: open System Settings → Privacy & Security and choose Open Anyway next to the message about Bardo.

To check the download, compare shasum -a 256 Bardo-1.0.0.dmg with Bardo-1.0.0.dmg.sha256:

ac246c664bc4b81e7365ecddb686705a8205248947aff84169f2574fd0ed225d  Bardo-1.0.0.dmg

Full changelog: https://github.com/maxavend/bardo/commits/v1.0.0