What is noScribe?
  • An AI-based software that transcribes interviews for qualitative social research or journalistic use
  • noScribe is free and open source (GPL-3.0)
  • It runs completely local on your computer. No data is sent to the internet. No cloud, no worries
  • It can distinguish different speakers and understands around 60 languages (more or less, see below)
  • It includes a nice editor to review, verify and correct the resulting transcript
  • It is standing on the shoulders of giants: Whisper from OpenAI, faster-whisper by Guillaume Klein and pyannote from Hervé Bredin
github.com, in "kaixxx/noScribe: Cutting edge AI technology for automated audio transcription. A nice GUI for OpenAIs Whisper and pyannote (speaker identification)"

This seems to work reasonably well out of the box on an Apple Silicon Mac. Maybe I no longer need my script based whisper-cpp solution.