Guide

Import audio and video recordings on Mac

Turn a meeting, interview, voice memo, podcast, or video you already have into a speaker-labeled transcript. Import it into echo99 and keep the recording, playback, and transcript together in one library.

How to import a recording

Open the echo99 menu in the menu bar and choose Import Recording….
Drop an audio or video file into the window, or click Choose File….
Review the recording name and date. If the selected speaker model supports it, you can also set the expected number of other speakers.
Click Import. echo99 converts the audio locally, adds it to Recordings…, and queues it for transcription.

Supported audio and video formats

echo99 imports formats that macOS can decode. Verified common formats include WAV, MP3, M4A, FLAC, MP4, and MOV. For video, echo99 uses the default audio track; a video without audio cannot be imported. Files that macOS cannot decode are rejected cleanly, without changing the original file.

What happens to the file

The source file stays where it is and remains unchanged.
echo99 creates a local recording using the name and date you chose, then applies your current transcription, vocabulary, silence, and speaker settings.
Audio conversion, transcription, and speaker labeling run on your Mac; no account or cloud upload is required.
Playback, speaker naming, re-transcription, and Markdown export work just like they do for a call recorded by echo99.

Why an imported recording has no “Me” track

A live call lets echo99 preserve your microphone and the other side separately. An existing file already combines its voices, so echo99 treats it as one mixed track. Speaker separation initially labels its voices “Them-1”, “Them-2”, and so on; there is no separate microphone track labeled “Me”. You can name speakers from the transcript afterward, and echo99 can recognize those familiar voices in later recordings.

Continue in your recordings library

When conversion finishes, choose Show in Recordings. The imported item is ordered by the recording date you selected and stays available for transcript playback, speaker edits, re-transcription with another model, and export.