Import and export

Importing audio and video files (Pro), exporting your recording and text, data with elapsed times (Pro), and where data lives.

Export your recording and text (free)

Select a session in the sidebar and export; a save panel asks for a folder name, and these files are written inside it:

• The recorded audio files (one per recording)
• <date>_transcript.txt — the finished transcript, one line per sentence (no timestamps)
• <date>_stream1.txt / _stream2.txt — each stream’s summaries in order (no timestamps; only if there is content)

What you recorded, and what you read, is always yours to take.

Export data with elapsed times (Pro)

Pro adds these files to the same folder:

File	Contents
<date>_transcript.json	Session details and every finished transcript segment (start and end in elapsed seconds, speaker)
<date>_transcript.csv	One sentence per row, with start and end (h:m:s and seconds) and speaker; opens in any spreadsheet
<date>_text.csv	One sentence per row, text only
<date>_transcript.srt	Subtitles for the whole session, spanning several recordings if there are any
<recording date>.srt	Subtitles per recording file, named to match its audio file, for video editors and players that sync captions to audio

There are two time bases. The per-recording SRT counts from the start of that audio file. The JSON, CSV, and session-wide SRT count from the start of the session’s recording.

Copy text (free)

Once recording or import has finished, transcript and summary text can be selected and copied (selection is disabled while processing). To take everything at once, use the .txt files from the export above.

Import audio and video (Pro)

Drop an audio or video file onto the transcript pane, or use “Choose file”, and it goes through the same transcription and summary pipeline as a live recording. m4a, mp3, wav, mov, mp4, and similar formats are supported. Long files show progress and can be read as they go.

An imported session can later be re-transcribed with a different engine (the original session is kept).

Where data lives

Everything stays on the Mac.

• Sessions, transcripts, summaries: ~/Library/Containers/jp.siainc.otonota/Data/Library/Application Support/Otonota/sessions.store
• Recordings: recordings/<session ID>/ alongside it
• Downloaded models: a cache area inside the app’s container, managed by the engines

Sessions and recordings are covered by Time Machine and other backups. Models count as caches and may be left out of backups; they are downloaded again when needed. Otonota never sends any of it anywhere itself (for what is sent when you enable a cloud engine yourself, see the privacy policy).

Trash

Deleted sessions go to the trash and are purged automatically after 30 days. Until then they can be restored from the trash in the sidebar.