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kaixxx/noScribe

Cutting edge AI technology for automated audio transcription. A nice GUI for OpenAIs Whisper and pyannote (speaker identification) observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/kaixxx/noScribe · Python · GPL-3.0 (copyleft) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

78/100

  • Activity 93
  • Release rhythm 54
  • Longevity 86
How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: 237.5
  • age_days: 1209
  • days_rel: 92
  • days_push: 43
  • n_releases_24m: 3

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

2132 stars · 350 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

noScribe is a free, open-source desktop application that transcribes audio locally using OpenAI's Whisper (via faster-whisper) and pyannote for speaker identification. It includes a built-in editor for reviewing and correcting transcripts, targeting qualitative researchers and journalists.

Use cases

  • transcribe interview recordings to text
  • identify different speakers in an audio recording
  • transcribe audio offline without uploading to the cloud
  • prepare transcripts for qualitative social research
  • transcribe journalistic interviews
  • review and correct AI-generated transcripts in an editor
  • transcribe audio in multiple languages

When to choose

  • you need confidential, fully local transcription with no cloud services
  • you need speaker diarization alongside transcription
  • you work in qualitative research or journalism with interview recordings
  • you want a GUI instead of command-line Whisper tools
  • you need multilingual transcription support

When to avoid

  • you need fast, real-time transcription (it can take up to 3x audio duration)
  • your audio quality is poor or noisy
  • you cannot spare several gigabytes for AI models
  • you need cloud-scale batch transcription of many files
  • you want a lightweight tool without large model downloads

Facets

application · maturity active

speech-recognition audio-processing gui speech-processing developer-tools desktop-applications windows cross-platform whisper pyannote speaker-diarization transcription interviews qualitative-research local-ai offline natural-language-processing macos linux desktop

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Member repositories

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For agents

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