Parlance

Parlance is a native macOS application that reimagines dialogue recording for film, television and audio productions. It enables a more creative flow during sessions, while producing richer and more organized data for editorial than traditional workflows.

 

Traditional dialogue sessions split attention between performance and organization. Someone is always tracking slates, scribbling notes on which takes were good, trying to remember what the director said about take three versus take seven. After the session ends, hours of manual work remain: scrubbing through audio, placing markers, identifying where each take begins and ends, transcribing selects. By the time editorial receives the files, the session is a distant memory.

 

Parlance inverts this. During recording, users simply mark slates as the session progresses. No detailed note-taking, no real-time take logging. Just a marker when the script line changes. The organizational burden shifts entirely to post-session, where an AI pipeline handles the tedious work automatically.

 

The intelligence layer processes each slate through four stages: audio transcription, timecode alignment, take boundary detection and performance analysis. What previously required frantic real-time notetaking followed by hours of audio scrubbing, manual transcription and decoding those shorthand notes is replaced by a simple click of a button.

 

The result is editorial-ready exports delivered same-day: BWF files with embedded metadata and markers, EDLs with accurate take information, or AAF via OpenTimelineIO for seamless handoff to Avid or Premiere. Every take identified, every slate organized, every note preserved.