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aTrain
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- GPU support
- aTrain can run on a CPU or an NVIDIA GPU; GPU use requires the CUDA toolkit.business-analytics.uni-graz.at · read 11 Oct 2026
- Intended users
- The maker describes aTrain as a transcription tool for qualitative research and says researchers developed it.business-analytics.uni-graz.at · read 11 Oct 2026
- Languages
- The product page says aTrain can process speech recordings in 57 languages.business-analytics.uni-graz.at · read 11 Oct 2026
- License
- The project’s GitHub repository identifies its license as AGPL-3.0.github.com · read 11 Oct 2026
- macOS availability
- The download page lists a macOS build for Apple Silicon under version 1.2.4 and 1.2.2.business-analytics.uni-graz.at · read 11 Oct 2026
- Notable limitation
- The product page estimates that its highest-quality model takes around three times the audio length on typical current mobile CPUs.business-analytics.uni-graz.at · read 4 Oct 2026
- Offline processing
- It processes recordings on the user’s device and does not send recordings or transcripts to the internet.business-analytics.uni-graz.at · read 11 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- aTrain is a tool for automatically transcribing speech recordings for qualitative research.business-analytics.uni-graz.at · read 11 Oct 2026
- Research integrations
- Its transcription files can be imported into ATLAS.ti and MAXQDA, with timestamps that let users play the corresponding audio segment.business-analytics.uni-graz.at · read 11 Oct 2026
- Speaker detection
- Its speaker detection mode uses pyannote.audio to identify which speaker each text segment belongs to.business-analytics.uni-graz.at · read 11 Oct 2026
- Transcription engine
- It provides access to faster-whisper, an implementation of OpenAI’s Whisper model.business-analytics.uni-graz.at · read 11 Oct 2026
- Web mode
- The project describes a browser/server mode as experimental and notes that some browser-mode functionality may be incomplete.github.com · read 4 Oct 2026
- Windows and Linux downloads
- The download page lists current downloads for Windows and Linux.business-analytics.uni-graz.at · read 11 Oct 2026
