Vibe
Local transcription app for macOS, Windows and Linux. Uses Whisper, Nemotron and Parakeet, with Ollama analysis and optional Claude API summaries.
Vibe is an open source desktop app for people who need transcripts or subtitles without uploading their recordings to a transcription service. It runs on macOS, Windows and Linux under the MIT license. Audio transcription works fully offline, with processing on your own computer.
It supports Whisper models from tiny to large, plus Nemotron 3.5 and Parakeet TDT v3. Multilingual transcription and translation into English make it useful for interviews, lectures and recordings in different languages. GPU acceleration supports NVIDIA, AMD and Intel hardware through Vulkan or CoreML.
You can transcribe audio and video files, queue whole folders, or capture microphone and system audio. Vibe also accepts recordings from an iOS or Android phone, with the computer handling transcription and returning the text. For online material, it can transcribe media from sites including YouTube and Vimeo.
The editor shows a live transcript preview and lets you correct words or replay audio at a timestamp. Speaker labels help distinguish voices, while subtitle timing controls and adjustable caption lengths suit longer videos and short clips. Exports include SRT, VTT, TXT, HTML, PDF, JSON and DOCX.
For transcript analysis and batch summaries, Ollama keeps AI processing local. Optional summaries through the Claude API use a cloud service, so that route sends transcript content beyond your machine. A command line interface and HTTP API let other software submit transcription jobs.
