Troubleshooting
Using Echo Chamber offline
What works without internet, and the one thing that needs it first.
Updated 2026-06-14
Echo Chamber is designed to work on a plane, in a basement, or anywhere without a signal. The only thing that needs the internet is the one-time speech model download.
Works fully offline
- Recording from any source.
- Transcription, once the model has downloaded.
- Full-text search across your transcripts.
- Editing, summaries, chat, and export.
- Translation, once a language pair has downloaded.
Download before you go
Make one recording while you are on Wi-Fi to trigger the model download. After that, transcription keeps working offline forever.
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How transcription works, and how fast it is
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Translate a transcript
Turn a finished transcript into another language, on your device.
Does my audio ever leave my device?
An honest, plain account of exactly what stays local and the only times the network is used.
Still need a hand?
Email support@obsidianridgelabs.com, a real person will reply.