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HyperWhisper saves every transcription that it completes. Each one appears in the History view. You can search all your past transcriptions and filter them by date. You can also play the original audio, copy or edit the text, and retry a failed job.

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Open History

Click the HyperWhisper menu bar icon. Then select History. The main app window opens with the History panel selected.

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The History Layout

The view has two panels:
  • Left panel — a scrollable list of all your transcriptions, grouped by date. A search bar and a date filter are at the top.
  • Right panel — the detail view for the selected transcription. It shows the full text, the metadata badges, the audio player, and the action buttons.
Each row in the list shows a preview of the transcript text (up to two lines), the recording time, and the recording duration. A status badge appears next to each entry that is still in progress or that failed. To filter the transcriptions by content, type in the search bar at the top of the list. The search ignores letter case. It matches the raw transcribed text and the post-processed text. A word that appears only after the AI cleanup is also a match.
The list updates as you type. A short debounce prevents a flicker on each keystroke.

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Filter by Date

To limit the results to a time range, use the date filter next to the search bar: If you use the date filter and a search term together, both conditions apply.

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View a Transcription

To open a transcription in the detail panel, select its row. The header shows the full date and time of the recording, and these metadata badges:
  • Duration — the length of the recording.
  • Mode — the transcription mode (preset) that you used.
  • Transcription provider — the engine or service that made the raw transcript. This badge is green, and it appears only when the data is available.
  • Post-processing provider — the AI model that cleaned the text. This badge is blue, and it appears only when the data is available.

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Processed Text and Original Text

If a transcription went through AI post-processing, a toggle appears above the text area. Use this toggle to change between two views:
  • Processed — the AI version, with the corrections and the format changes.
  • Original — the raw transcript, before post-processing.
The toggle is a switch with a label. To see the unprocessed text, set the switch to Original. To go back to the cleaned text, set the switch to Processed.

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Edit the Text

When the processed text is on screen, click Edit in the toolbar above the text area. Make your changes in the text editor. Then click Done to save them. The raw original text is read-only. You cannot edit it.

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Play the Audio

If HyperWhisper saved the audio for a recording, an audio player appears in the detail panel below the transcript text.
To start or stop the audio, click the play/pause button. A waveform and the recording duration appear next to the controls.Voice Activity Detection (VAD) can make a second copy of the audio without the silence. If VAD was active during the recording and this copy exists, a toggle with the label Original / Trimmed appears above the player. To hear the audio without the silence, select Trimmed. To hear the full recording, select Original.To show the audio file in the Finder, click Show in Finder.If the audio file is no longer on the disk, an “Audio file missing” message replaces the player. Retry is not available for that entry.
HyperWhisper saves an audio file each time you record. If you disabled audio saving in Settings, or deleted the file outside HyperWhisper, that entry has no playback and no retry.

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Copy Text

To copy the text on screen to your clipboard, click Copy in the actions bar. The app copies the text of the active view: processed or original.
To copy the text without the detail panel, select a transcription in the list and press ⌘ C. This shortcut copies the same text that the detail view shows.

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Delete Transcriptions

Single entry: Select the row and press Delete. You can also right-click the row and select Delete from the context menu. You can also click the Delete button in the actions bar of the detail panel.Multiple entries: Hold ⌘ or Shift to select more than one row. Then press Delete, or right-click and select Delete Selected. The detail panel changes to a bulk-delete confirmation view with the count of the selected items.A confirmation dialog appears before every delete, for a single entry and for a selection.When you delete a transcription, the app also deletes its audio file from the disk.

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Retry a Failed Transcription

If a transcription fails, the entry shows a Failed badge in the list. The detail panel shows an error badge. If the original audio file is still on the disk, you can retry the transcription.
Retry with the same mode: Click Retry in the actions bar, or right-click the row and select Retry. This option is available only for failed entries that still have an audio file on the disk.Retry with a different mode: Right-click an entry that has saved audio and select Retry with…. Then select a mode from the submenu. The app transcribes the original audio again with the settings and the provider of that mode. This option is available for every transcript with saved audio, not only for the failed ones.The row shows a “Retrying transcription…” spinner while the job runs. The button label also counts the retry attempts. After the first retry, the label shows “Retry (N)”.
Retry needs the original audio file. If you deleted the file, or the app never saved it, the retry option is not available.

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Interrupted Transcriptions

If the app quits, crashes, or the computer restarts while a transcription runs, no worker stays alive to finish the job. Without a repair, the entry stays in the Processing state forever. Thus HyperWhisper repairs these entries the next time that it starts.
At startup, each transcript that is still in the processing state changes to Failed. The text of the entry changes to “Transcription interrupted — the app quit before it finished”.If the audio file of the entry is still on the disk, the entry gets the standard Retry action. Select the entry, then click Retry to transcribe the same audio again.

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Recordings that stopped before the transcription started (macOS)

If the app stopped during the recording itself, the transcription never started, and no History entry exists for it. At the next start, HyperWhisper examines your recordings folder for these unfinished recordings.
  • Audio that HyperWhisper can read stays in your recordings folder. A file of 25 MB or more becomes an M4A file. A smaller file stays a WAV file.
  • HyperWhisper does not transcribe the recovered audio automatically, and the audio does not become a History entry. To transcribe it, use Transcribe a File and select the file from your recordings folder.
  • Audio that HyperWhisper cannot read is deleted, because it contains no usable speech.
  • If the recovery of the same recording fails three times, HyperWhisper stops the attempts for that recording.

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Automatic Deletion

Both apps have an optional automatic-deletion setting. It deletes transcriptions that are older than an age that you set. Automatic deletion runs in the background. It deletes the transcript record and the audio file.
Go to Settings → Storage → Enable automatic deletion. You can set the age limit in minutes, hours, or days. A Next check line shows the countdown to the next cleanup.
For the other settings in this panel, read Storage Settings.