I've been using MacWhisper for this, with a huge variety of transcription options and things like speaker detection. It works great for all the 1 hour and shorter videos I've fed it, but does this have more to offer?
I haven't tried a 4+ hour video with MacWhisper but I presume that would work the same.
rezivor 12 hours ago [-]
Please be my guest to test my claims. No tall tales here!
gcr 11 hours ago [-]
MacWhisper handles multiple-hour-long recordings just fine for me. I regularly process 4hrs on MacWhisper. Even whisper-cpp works fine these days for long recordings too.
Cool product, but it would be better if you stopped spreading misinformation to support it.
lostlogin 8 hours ago [-]
> Cool product, but it would be better if you stopped spreading misinformation to support it.
I don’t see this sort of thing, has the page changed?
Edit: the comments here…
The drop shadow on the pages does make it deeply unpleasant to read.
busymichael 8 hours ago [-]
As a side project, I just launched a privacy-first web-based meeting transcriber (https://basilai.app/app). Everything runs entirely in your browser — both the transcription and AI summarization — so no audio or text ever leaves your device.
I'm using the browser built in transcription service plus downloading a model and running it via webgpu. No login. At the end of your meeting, you get a zip file with the audio, transcript and summary.
Great when you have time to kill and not a lot to process I suppose
Telemakhos 12 hours ago [-]
What languages does this support? Does it support switching between multiple languages in one video?
For example, could it support a video that included spoken Latin, ancient Greek, German, and Italian?
runxel 5 hours ago [-]
So weird that this is nowhere stated on the website at all. Was literally the first and only thing I was interested in. So bad.
rezivor 12 hours ago [-]
eng der fr de es it pt ru zh ko ar and ja
Telemakhos 11 hours ago [-]
So, can it handle multiple languages in one video, or do you need to segment the different languages using LID first? This has been a thorny issue for people working in multilingual audio (there are at least two or three of us).
rezivor 11 hours ago [-]
I haven't test that specific edge case, I'm sorry. I tested 2 langue's having a normal conversation and that worked fine- "Auto or English" handle multiple lan the best
yewenjie 12 hours ago [-]
Does it support speaker diarization?
xjlin0 2 hours ago [-]
Is it only for English? is CLI available? There are thousands of files on my local and I'd like to save results to local db. Thanks!
torstenvl 12 hours ago [-]
You use the word "transcribe" but the page doesn't appear to support that claim? This looks like straightforward STT? Or does it actually support transcription (diarization, etc.)?
(Also, the text is completely illegible on your site.)
rezivor 12 hours ago [-]
r/#FF0000_rage
mattstudio 8 hours ago [-]
One thing that Rev and other online services have as well as MacWhisper is a good interface for editing the text to correct inevitable errors. Being able to click on the text and have it sync to the correct place in the audio is a must for my use case of transcribing interviews. Also speaker diarization.
rezivor 8 hours ago [-]
Scribers’ iCloud system automatically backs up each transcription and organizes them in a three-pane folder view—somewhat inspired by Bars’ layout. This structure allows a surprising degree of customization for all your data needs, especially when transcribing interviews. It would probably make for a very comfortable workflow here
scilro 12 hours ago [-]
Seconding/thirding the request for diarization! I would use this as my main transcription app if it had that.
rezivor 12 hours ago [-]
I use it as my own transcription app, I really do love it ( biased I know, but genuinely)
pmarreck 8 hours ago [-]
Does it do separate speaker identification (diarization)?
What's the stack, if I may ask? (I believe Whisper-X does the diarization thing)
CrazyCatDog 11 hours ago [-]
Question: can it discern (and label) different speakers? If so, could you kindly share the limit on speakers per video?
You are looking for speaker diarization. No one is doing this well currently on device (in macOS land at least).
rezivor 10 hours ago [-]
No, not yet! That will definitely be included in the next update next month.
Thank you for reminding me of peoples unique need for this use case
oasisbob 10 hours ago [-]
Timecode drift is an interesting issue, think I faced this recently while translating a Google Meet transcript into an incident report timeline.
The elapsed-time timestamps didn't correlate well with other data sources. I figured it was a mistake on my end, and just brushed it off.
jiriro 7 hours ago [-]
Will it transcribe audio in Czech (in future versions)?
Actually I would be happy if it could just identify occurrences (timestamps) of a specific word or a small set of words.
vladsanchez 8 hours ago [-]
App Store link no longer works. Willing to try/purchase but it's nowhere available. AppStore search doesn't return "Scriber Pro" either.
Thanks.
KPGv2 6 hours ago [-]
FYI it works now because I just brought it up. The website mentions there were HN promo/discount codes, so I honestly expected the app to be like $20+, so color me shocked when it's $3.99.
nubg 12 hours ago [-]
How does it compare to MacWhisper?
rezivor 12 hours ago [-]
MacWhisper crashes at about an hour of context.
This uses, smart, invisible regex in the text generation pipe. Makes this fast. + bonus, there is no context limit
barapa 12 hours ago [-]
Smart invisible regex makes it fast and prevents it from crashing? What does that mean?
grosswait 12 hours ago [-]
I've done 3+hours with MacWhisper without issue? One downside is the transcription is not real time - can Scriber Pro do realtime?
KPGv2 6 hours ago [-]
I haven't worked in a while with transcription, but whisper.cpp itself (which I assume is the underlying tech behind MacWhisper) does realtime transcription on my MBP with an M1 Pro chip. When I first started writing my last completed novel, I fired it up and just started telling the story to test it out. Realtime.
That was back in 2023. I assume things work better now.
fady0 9 hours ago [-]
I am a MacWhisper Pro user, and I successfully transcribed and translated a 15-hour course inside the app without any issues
CharlesW 9 hours ago [-]
> MacWhisper crashes at about an hour of context.
This is not true. (I've been a MacWhisper user since 2023. I have two bugs during that time, which the author addressed quickly.)
fl_rn_st 12 hours ago [-]
"Smart, invisible regex" sounds like a lot of bs... could you give a more technical explanation?
Also the Whisper model doesn't really have a context window, it already segments the audio with a certain amount of overlap between the chunks, I really have a hard time understanding what you are trying to say here.
rezivor 12 hours ago [-]
Whisper will fail > 99%* (edit, most of the time) of the time at lengths over 90 minutes and fairly high over one hour.
saaaaaam 11 hours ago [-]
This is absolutely not my experience. I regularly (weekly at least) use whisper for 90-120 minutes pieces of content and only rarely have problems.
pmarreck 8 hours ago [-]
Can't really declare that without declaring which whisper model in particular you are referring to, as there are a number of them
fl_rn_st 12 hours ago [-]
This is just plain wrong. I have my own Whisper App in the AppStore (on iOS, with very limited memory capacity) and there are no problems at all with longer Audio / Video files.
rezivor 11 hours ago [-]
I've never had whisper complete a single attempt a anything over 75 min
gcr 11 hours ago [-]
I’ve used whisper-cop on 5-hour podcasts without problems.
Would also love to hear what you mean by “smart invisible regex,” sounds like AI slop to me.
pmarreck 8 hours ago [-]
> Smart invisible regex
I've never heard a regex person speak this way of a regex.
Please tell me you didn't vibecode the regex... one of the areas it's still not good at
gcr 11 hours ago [-]
What do you mean context limit?
Neither whisper nor MacWhisper have any context limit
nvdnadj92 12 hours ago [-]
I vibecoded a similar app. Here’s the open source link, if folks want to build their own:
Yes, but by a negligible margin. My program is designed for multi-track audio, which means I run this in parallel on multiple 3 hour recordings, and get results in 12 minutes.
You haven’t shared any architectural details. What model? What size? How can anyone be sure that what you’re building is truly offline?
ramon156 12 hours ago [-]
Yours isn't OSS, meaning I have no idea what I'm running
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rezivor 12 hours ago [-]
OSS would be incredibly slow, also seems like overkill for this use case
mpeg 12 hours ago [-]
I was going to buy the app, but these responses are putting me off massively. How would making it OSS slow it down?
kamranjon 11 hours ago [-]
I suspect, from the responses of the creator here, that this app they are selling is likely violating a number of open source licenses…
user- 10 hours ago [-]
the obnoxious site deisgn and comments like this stopped me from clicking buy in the apple store
fl_rn_st 12 hours ago [-]
What does that even mean? Why would OSS make it slower? Why would it be an overkill?
This is not Producthunt, you have to give at least some kind of explanation for your claims.
konart 10 hours ago [-]
OSS as in open source software. Not Open Sound System. Just in case.
ideashower 10 hours ago [-]
Can you back up your claim that it's slow?
sings_lullabies 11 hours ago [-]
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FitchApps 8 hours ago [-]
Nice work. What model did you use and do you ship the model with a base distribution or is it downloaded with the app?
woodson 4 hours ago [-]
Probably NVIDIA’s Parakeet-TDT-0.6b-v3.
re 4 hours ago [-]
What libraries/models is this built on?
mattfrommars 11 hours ago [-]
What is your tech stack to make this? Is it end to end swift?
rezivor 9 hours ago [-]
Swift 37.0%
C++ 26.5%
C 19.8%
Rust 4.7%
Shell 4.4%
Objective-C 1.7%
Other 5.9%
CaptainOfCoit 8 hours ago [-]
What language do you have the model architecture and implementation in? Feel like it would be the biggest proportion of the codebase, curious if you did it in Swift?
aquir 12 hours ago [-]
My eyes, my eyes! What is this red colour?
Cool project, I am using ChatGPT for recording/summarising meetings but the limit there is 2 hours
rezivor 11 hours ago [-]
That my friend, is just one of the annoying bottlenecks, that inspired me to do this
Also that color is color(display-p3 .768627 .031373 .031373 / 1)- It is actually technically redder than red actually is
11 hours ago [-]
trvr 12 hours ago [-]
Is there a reason it requires macOS 26?
rezivor 12 hours ago [-]
Uses liquidGlass fairly heavily- just design reasons-- I'm happy to expand compatibility
trvr 12 hours ago [-]
At $3.99 this was an instant buy for me until the App Store told me I couldn't. I think the venn diagram between HN users and those holding off on Tahoe is probably a pretty big overlap. ;-)
nkotov 9 hours ago [-]
Same! I was trying to buy but wasn't able to.
rezivor 11 hours ago [-]
If ever there were a reason to upgrade!
But thats a fair point- I drank the Liquid Glass Kool-Aid----- I'll aim more compatibility the next upgrade
busymichael 8 hours ago [-]
My experience share only supporting the latest OS:
I have launched apps focused on a new feature in the latest OS and regretted it. The # of people who have the latest OS is much smaller than the full install base for much longer than I thought. As a result, my marketing conversion was unnaturally low - people who liked the app idea but couldn't install because they had the wrong OS. This causes two problems: potential users I activated but couldn't convert and this signal gets internalized by the App Store, pushing down future impressions.
Now I always have a fallback implementation of the feature so I can target the prior OS. Both Mac and iOS.
polarix 10 hours ago [-]
Do you have a mailing list?
somberi 5 hours ago [-]
Wanted to buy. Not on Macos 26.
tomalbrc 12 hours ago [-]
Tahoe really is just unusable
rezivor 12 hours ago [-]
Thanks. An update that will add functionality that allows a user to give it a link that contains web video, will do dynamic link discovery (with Safari extension, and pull in the video automatically (M3U8 discover and retrieval) -- Lots of online lecture videos that need transcription.
I will include better version support (probably to os 13).
trvr 12 hours ago [-]
Hence why I'm asking why it requires it. Trying to hold off as long as I can!
thedangler 11 hours ago [-]
Any way to access this with python so I can use it programmatically?
rezivor 11 hours ago [-]
This isn't run using Python, but also no
tempodox 7 hours ago [-]
Too bad it requires that unspeakable abomination macOS 26. No can do.
brokensegue 12 hours ago [-]
Word level timestamps?
rezivor 11 hours ago [-]
Ah, I think you're asking if a user can, when wanting timestamps, if they can further edit the output to be by word?
Currently set around each sentence (2-5s) --- But that is absolutely doable and that’s a great idea - On the next update (~3-4wks) I’ll definitely include the ability to control that.
rezivor 12 hours ago [-]
Can you clarify your question
qwertytyyuu 12 hours ago [-]
I think they are trying to do something like select a word in the transcript and be take straight to the point in the video that said word was spoken
https://scriberpro.cc/about/
Are you trolling people with this page's design? Unreadable colors AND a wobble effect? :D
bazzargh 11 hours ago [-]
Also, disabling scrolling and using swipe for sections instead _at a font size that causes text to overflow_, depending on phone screen size, meaning a bunch of the site is _literally_ unreadable, since it's off the screen with no way to get there.
qwertytyyuu 12 hours ago [-]
reading on drugs simulator?
rezivor 11 hours ago [-]
I honestly thought it would be nothing more than a fun little easter egg, Red was a bold choice I admit. ! I will making a css update soon
coldtea 8 hours ago [-]
They also mean the 3D effect (and there's also a blur one)
Oras 12 hours ago [-]
The landing page is difficult to read due to the strong red background.
rezivor 12 hours ago [-]
Thank you. I have heard this : P - It will change soon.
ta1243 12 hours ago [-]
I learned this as a young developer writing status pages. I had a colour-blind colleague, so text on green/yellow/red.
Typically white text works better on red.
seanwilson 10 hours ago [-]
Reds people choose are usually between dark and light, which doesn't contrast particularly well on anything because for good contrast you need a dark color vs a light color.
Green, yellow, red or whatever hue is fine, as long as it's dark or light enough. Colorblind and non-colorblind people can see how dark or light a color is (luminance), but they might not agree on the hue. That's why WCAG contrast checks require luminance contrast and not hue contrast.
It's best to use a contrast checker because it's not always intuitive how dark or light a color is e.g. yellow and lime are almost as light as white.
reactordev 10 hours ago [-]
I can’t read this site. Red background, dark grey/black text, is a terrible terrible choice for colors for readability. There were some words there but all I could make out were the header on my mobile phone.
I haven't tried a 4+ hour video with MacWhisper but I presume that would work the same.
Cool product, but it would be better if you stopped spreading misinformation to support it.
I don’t see this sort of thing, has the page changed? Edit: the comments here…
The drop shadow on the pages does make it deeply unpleasant to read.
I'm using the browser built in transcription service plus downloading a model and running it via webgpu. No login. At the end of your meeting, you get a zip file with the audio, transcript and summary.
For example, could it support a video that included spoken Latin, ancient Greek, German, and Italian?
(Also, the text is completely illegible on your site.)
What's the stack, if I may ask? (I believe Whisper-X does the diarization thing)
The elapsed-time timestamps didn't correlate well with other data sources. I figured it was a mistake on my end, and just brushed it off.
Actually I would be happy if it could just identify occurrences (timestamps) of a specific word or a small set of words.
Thanks.
That was back in 2023. I assume things work better now.
This is not true. (I've been a MacWhisper user since 2023. I have two bugs during that time, which the author addressed quickly.)
Also the Whisper model doesn't really have a context window, it already segments the audio with a certain amount of overlap between the chunks, I really have a hard time understanding what you are trying to say here.
Would also love to hear what you mean by “smart invisible regex,” sounds like AI slop to me.
I've never heard a regex person speak this way of a regex.
Please tell me you didn't vibecode the regex... one of the areas it's still not good at
Neither whisper nor MacWhisper have any context limit
https://github.com/naveedn/audio-transcriber
You haven’t shared any architectural details. What model? What size? How can anyone be sure that what you’re building is truly offline?
Cool project, I am using ChatGPT for recording/summarising meetings but the limit there is 2 hours
Also that color is color(display-p3 .768627 .031373 .031373 / 1)- It is actually technically redder than red actually is
But thats a fair point- I drank the Liquid Glass Kool-Aid----- I'll aim more compatibility the next upgrade
I have launched apps focused on a new feature in the latest OS and regretted it. The # of people who have the latest OS is much smaller than the full install base for much longer than I thought. As a result, my marketing conversion was unnaturally low - people who liked the app idea but couldn't install because they had the wrong OS. This causes two problems: potential users I activated but couldn't convert and this signal gets internalized by the App Store, pushing down future impressions.
Now I always have a fallback implementation of the feature so I can target the prior OS. Both Mac and iOS.
I will include better version support (probably to os 13).
https://iili.io/KkoKBCx.png
I have change the bg color
https://scriberpro.cc/about/ Are you trolling people with this page's design? Unreadable colors AND a wobble effect? :D
Typically white text works better on red.
Green, yellow, red or whatever hue is fine, as long as it's dark or light enough. Colorblind and non-colorblind people can see how dark or light a color is (luminance), but they might not agree on the hue. That's why WCAG contrast checks require luminance contrast and not hue contrast.
It's best to use a contrast checker because it's not always intuitive how dark or light a color is e.g. yellow and lime are almost as light as white.
The first thought I had when it loaded was, "Did we forget how to make webpages?"
Sorry. I'm sure the software is great, but yeah.
Oh I see title ate your h2 text. Thats no good. Thanks for showing me