aTrain

Spec sheet

Purpose

aTrain is a tool for automatically transcribing speech recordings for qualitative research.Read 11 Oct 2026 · business-analytics.uni-graz.at

Intended users

The maker describes aTrain as a transcription tool for qualitative research and says researchers developed it.Read 11 Oct 2026 · business-analytics.uni-graz.at

Platforms

The project says packaged apps are available through Flathub for Linux and the Microsoft Store for Windows; it also documents pip installation and says macOS is CPU-only.Read 4 Oct 2026 · github.com

License

The project’s GitHub repository identifies its license as AGPL-3.0.Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

GPU support

aTrain can run on a CPU or an NVIDIA GPU; GPU use requires the CUDA toolkit.Read 11 Oct 2026 · business-analytics.uni-graz.at

Languages

The product page says aTrain can process speech recordings in 57 languages.Read 11 Oct 2026 · business-analytics.uni-graz.at

macOS availability

The download page lists a macOS build for Apple Silicon under version 1.2.4 and 1.2.2.Read 11 Oct 2026 · business-analytics.uni-graz.at

Notable limitation

The product page estimates that its highest-quality model takes around three times the audio length on typical current mobile CPUs.Read 4 Oct 2026 · business-analytics.uni-graz.at

Offline processing

It processes recordings on the user’s device and does not send recordings or transcripts to the internet.Read 11 Oct 2026 · business-analytics.uni-graz.at

Research integrations

Its transcription files can be imported into ATLAS.ti and MAXQDA, with timestamps that let users play the corresponding audio segment.Read 11 Oct 2026 · business-analytics.uni-graz.at

Speaker detection

Its speaker detection mode uses pyannote.audio to identify which speaker each text segment belongs to.Read 11 Oct 2026 · business-analytics.uni-graz.at

Transcription engine

It provides access to faster-whisper, an implementation of OpenAI’s Whisper model.Read 11 Oct 2026 · business-analytics.uni-graz.at

Web mode

The project describes a browser/server mode as experimental and notes that some browser-mode functionality may be incomplete.Read 4 Oct 2026 · github.com

Windows and Linux downloads

The download page lists current downloads for Windows and Linux.Read 11 Oct 2026 · business-analytics.uni-graz.at

Where Specifiction places it

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