In simple English
Vibe is a desktop program that turns spoken words in audio and video files into written text. It runs entirely on your own computer, so your voice recordings never leave your device and are never sent to a cloud server. You do not need any coding skills or an internet connection to use it once installed. It supports dozens of languages and saves your transcripts in many common file formats. The software is free to download and use.
What it is
Vibe is an open-source desktop application built with Rust and TypeScript that uses local speech-to-text models like Whisper to transcribe media files offline. It features a graphical interface, hardware acceleration for graphics cards, batch processing, and optional local AI integration via Ollama.
What it is good for
Anyone who needs to turn meetings, interviews, podcasts, or video clips into written text without paying for a cloud service or risking privacy. It suits creators, researchers, and journalists who want to process sensitive audio files entirely on local hardware.
- Runs completely offline to keep all your voice recordings private.
- Supports batch processing for multiple audio and video files at once.
- Exports transcripts into standard formats like SRT, VTT, TXT, PDF, and DOCX.
- Requires a computer with a decent graphics card or plenty of RAM to transcribe quickly.
- Downloading and setting up large speech models takes up significant disk space.
- Large video files or long recordings can take considerable time to process on older hardware.
paid cloud transcription services
Ollama
- openai/whisper111k stars
The underlying command-line speech recognition model that powers many local transcription tools.
- ggml-org/whisper.cpp55k stars
A lightweight C and C++ port of the Whisper model designed for fast local execution.
- mpv-player/mpv38k stars
A command-line media player that handles most audio, video and subtitle formats and can be driven entirely from scripts.
- snapcast/snapcast8.0k stars
A server and clients that play one audio stream in several rooms, kept in time with each other.
- MusicPlayerDaemon/MPD2.8k stars
A background music player with no interface of its own, controlled over a network by separate client programs.
Download the installer directly from the project website at https://thewh1teagle.github.io/vibe/ and run it on your operating system.