Transcript

Screen Cut Pro can transcribe your microphone narration on-device using Apple’s Speech framework. Use it to add captions to the export, or drive a teleprompter.

Generating a transcript

Transcription is automatic for any project that has microphone audio. The first time you open the editor, the transcript is generated in the background; you’ll see a progress indicator at the bottom of the editor. On a typical M-series Mac, expect ~30 seconds per minute of audio.

The transcript is stored inside the .screencut bundle, so it persists with the project — no re-running on reopen.

Showing captions in the export

Toggle Show transcript in the inspector to render captions along the bottom of the preview. They’ll be baked into the export. Caption styling is intentionally minimal — for richer styling, use the text annotation type with the transcript as your script.

Captions baked into the video — Transcript captions track the playhead and respect the current word boundary.

Privacy

Transcription runs on-device using SFSpeechRecognizer. No audio leaves your Mac. The Speech permission is required — see Permissions.

Editing the transcript

Open the transcript panel from View → Transcript. You can:

Edit the text inline (corrections won’t affect timing).
Click any word to jump the playhead to its start time.
Copy the full transcript to paste elsewhere.