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Show HN: Scriber Pro – Offline AI transcription for macOS

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137 points rezivor | 2 comments | 15 Oct 25 12:16 UTC | HN request time: 0.417s | source

Hey HN! Built this because I was tired of waiting hours for transcription services and didn't want to upload sensitive recordings to the cloud.

  Real metrics from my M1 Max: 4.5hr video file transcribed in 3 minutes 32
  seconds. Works completely offline.

   First 5 HN users who click the button on the page get it free. Literally promo code straight to the app sore  


  Key differences vs Rev/Otter:
  - No 2-hour file limits (handles any length)
  - Timecodes stay accurate on long files (no drift from chunking)
  - Supports MP3, WAV, MP4, MOV, M4A, FLAC
  - Exports to SRT, VTT, JSON, PDF, DOCX, CSV, Markdown

  Built for macOS. Happy to answer questions!
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nubg ◴[15 Oct 25 12:48 UTC] No.45591597[source]▶
How does it compare to MacWhisper?
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rezivor ◴[15 Oct 25 12:50 UTC] No.45591639[source]▶
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
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1. grosswait ◴[15 Oct 25 13:15 UTC] No.45591977[source]▶
I've done 3+hours with MacWhisper without issue? One downside is the transcription is not real time - can Scriber Pro do realtime?
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2. KPGv2 ◴[15 Oct 25 18:48 UTC] No.45596835[source]▶
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.