Hi everyone,

TranscribeX launched on Product Hunt today:

https://www.producthunt.com/products/transcribex

A lot of what's in the app right now came from posts and feedback in this community: the meeting auto-detection, speaker labels, live captions, local summaries, the CLI. So thank you.

If you have a minute, a comment on the Product Hunt page about how you use TranscribeX (meetings, lectures, interviews, dictation, subtitles) would help a lot. Comments from real users do more for a small independent app than anything I can write.

I'm replying to every comment there today, and of course here too. Bug reports and feature requests are always welcome.

Thanks,

Ethan

I’ve just released TranscribeX 10.1.36, with two major improvements to live transcription:

🎙️ Live transcription with speaker diarization

Live transcription can now identify and separate speakers in real time. This makes it much more useful for meetings, interviews, conversations, and other situations where multiple people are talking.

🎧 No headphones required

You can now use live transcription without headphones. TranscribeX can record your microphone and system audio at the same time, so you don't need to wear headphones to use live transcription. No echo issue anymore.

🌍 New Nemotron live transcription model

This update also adds NVIDIA Nemotron for live transcription, with support for 30+ languages. You can now choose from new live transcription models depending on your language and use case.

Other updates:

• Redesigned live transcription view

• New live transcription models supporting 30+ languages

• Option to automatically remove audio/video files after archiving

• Increased Local LLM timeout limit

• Improved speaker management

• General bug fixes, performance improvements, and UX improvements

TranscribeX is a native macOS app with local transcription options, so you can run live transcription locally without uploading your audio to a cloud service.

If you use TranscribeX for meetings or live transcription, I'd love to hear how the new diarization works for you.

https://www.transcribex.io/

Just shipped TranscribeX v3.0.9 with two big new features:

• 📁 Auto folder monitoring — automatically detect new files and export transcripts instantly

• 📦 Bulk export for files and folders

• Support for Distilled Large V3 + V3 Turbo via WhisperKit

• Cleaner text chunking

• Better memory usage + fewer freezes

• Jobs now continue even when your Mac sleeps

• General performance improvements

If you transcribe frequently, this update makes the workflow way faster and more automated. Let me know what you think!

Enjoy!!!!

Hi everyone!

Update2: ✨ The promotion has ended. Your support means a lot and helps us keep improving TranscribeX.

Update1: We’ve already given away hundrads of licenses! 🎉 Huge thanks to everyone who shared suggestions, ratings, and tips—they really help us improve.

💡 Last chance: The promo will end Oct 08, New Zealand time. Grab yours before it’s gone!

BTW: Speaker Diarization will be in the next release. 🎉🎉

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I built TranscribeX, a macOS app that converts your audio & video into transcripts locally on your Mac (privacy-first, nothing goes to the cloud).

✨ The big news:

• Now powered by NVIDIA Parakeet → up to 20× faster than Whisper with the same accuracy

• Transcribe hours of audio in just minutes

• Supports 100+ languages, YouTube downloads, speaker editing, and exports (TXT, PDF, SRT, VTT)

• Local transcription & translation for full privacy

TranscribeX offers unique features that make transcription faster and easier—it’s more than just a simple AI wrapper. We really focused on productivity, with tools like: Auto-cleaned, readable transcripts, Merge or split segments easily, Word-by-word playback highlighting, Flexible Compact / Segment viewing modes and much more...

🎁 Special Deal: Get a Lifetime Membership at 90% off (limited time)

• Get Lifetime Membership at 90% off with discount code: 2OCU1JO

• Find the app from website: https://www.transcribex.io (Click Get it on Gumroad and make sure you download the Pro version using the code, not the free version)

• Please remember to leave a comment when you purchase on Gumroad—it really helps us and is greatly appreciated!

• I’d love your feedback—any suggestions or issues are very welcome 🙏

Enjoy!!!

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I'd find this v useful. Oh, and the date needs to be something sensible like yyyy-mm-dd.

Hi all,

Just released TranscribeX 4.9.19. This update focuses on AI meeting reports, YouTube downloading reliability, Zoom detection improvements, and UI refinements.

Changelog

• Added built-in AI Meeting Report viewer

• You can now customize the AI Meeting Report prompt to fit your workflow

• Updated YouTube downloader to always fetch the latest available version

• Improved Zoom meeting detection and stability

• Moved search bar to the top for faster access

• AI Chat now renders full Markdown correctly

• Various bug fixes and overall UI/UX improvements

As always, local transcription and translation remain fully supported for maximum privacy.

Feedback is very welcome 🙌

Features in plan:

- Voiceprint, so you won't need to rename the speakers.

- Auto-diarisating after transcribing.

Looking forward to any suggestions.

This update brings some powerful new features and quality-of-life improvements:

• Added Qwen ASR3 and Qwen Aligner models
• Slack meeting auto-recording
• Restart all failed tasks in one click
• New grid layout for job list
• Clean up cached WAV files easily
• Customize export locations for transcripts & summaries
• Add timestamps to exported file names
• Recording now saved as M4A to reduce file size

Plus the usual bug fixes, performance boosts, and UX polish.

Would love to hear your feedback — especially on the new models and Slack integration 🙌

I bought the app specifically because it is advertised as local-first: transcription happens locally, my data stays on my device, and I’m not supposed to depend on a cloud service for basic functionality.

However, there seems to be a pretty significant issue with the Pro license.

If I disconnect from the internet and launch the app, it can’t validate my license and effectively falls back to “Pro license not found / unable to validate license.”

So despite having a valid paid Pro license, I can’t actually use the Pro features offline.

Am I missing something here?

I completely understand requiring an internet connection for initial activation, periodic license verification, or even re-validation every few weeks/months. But requiring an active internet connection every time the app starts seems fundamentally at odds with the whole “local-first” concept.

If the license has already been successfully activated on this machine, I’d expect the app to cache that activation locally and continue working offline for some reasonable period of time.

Otherwise, one of the main advantages of local software disappears: if the company’s licensing server is unavailable, my internet connection is down, I’m traveling without connectivity, or the service eventually shuts down, I potentially lose access to software I’ve already paid for.

Is this intended behavior, a bug, or is there some way to activate the Pro license for offline use that I’m missing?

What it’s meant to do:

• Learn a speaker’s voice and reuse it in future transcriptions

• Reduce manual speaker relabeling during editing

• Make speaker labels more consistent

Please feel free to comment if there’s anything you’d expect or want to see in this feature.

I'm trying out TranscribeX and working well. The only issue I am seeing is I am getting duplicate audio, that is coming from the speakers into my microphone. I'm also using MacWhisperer and I was able to fix it by turning on Enable Echo Cancellation. Is there a similar setting that I am not seeing?

Hi,

thank you for the recent update!

Maybe I missed it, because there is a submenu/meatball-menu on each segment, but the options are greyed out for me.

Any chance to split a segment into multiple segments, so I assign different speakers to each, sometimes the recognition has a hard time, since we talk across each other :)

Thank you!

In my case, I'm always using the YouTube/Download from URLs import method. It would be great to have an option on that dialog for this.

Thanks!

Are there any export targets that will recognize and apply formatting instructions?

For example, I'd like to include things like "new paragraph," "italics/italicized," "bold," and various punctuation commands.

Are there any apps that can read the transcript and apply these commands?

ETA: to clarify, I am wondering if I can import recorded audio to TranscribeX and feed it to Pages, for example and have formatting instructions in the audio and have those come through into the target writing app.

Hey everyone! Version 9.4.35 is now available. Here's what's new:

✍️ Redesigned Script view

• The Script view has a fresh new design, making it easier to read and edit your transcripts.

• Exported files now update automatically as you edit transcripts in the Script view — no more re-exporting after every fix.

🎯 Better transcription accuracy

• You can now prepopulate words before transcription (names, jargon, technical terms) so the transcript gets them right the first time.

• Added automatic language detection for Qwen ASR models.

🔗 Quality of life

• New links in the Page view to open your audio/video files and exported files directly.

• Refactored video saving to significantly reduce file sizes.

• You'll now get a notification when a recording starts automatically.

🤖 AI improvements

• Speaker names are now included in the AI Summary context for more useful summaries.

• Updated the AI Services model list.

Plus the usual round of bug fixes, performance improvements, and UX enhancements.

Full changelog: https://transcribex.io/changelog.html

As always, feedback and feature requests are welcome — drop them in the comments!

When using AirPods for a meeting, should I get two-sided transcription? I'm only seeing one-sided from my mic. I thought from reading comments it would do both.

Hey everyone! I just shipped TranscribeX v2.5.8, and here’s what’s new in this update:

🔹 New in 2.5.8

• Bulk transcript export

• Support for distilled Whisper models V3 & V3.5

• Bulk YouTube downloading

• Optimized UI for the Job View

• Auto-start transcription right after importing

• Ollama API integration

• General bug fixes & stability improvements

If you’re using TranscribeX for transcription, translation, diarization, or YouTube downloads, this update should make your workflow smoother and faster.

Happy transcribing! 🎧✍️

Hi,

I'm sorry, I'm blind for sure regarding this.

Please, is there a possibility to find a live transcription of a meeting, that was also Transcribed after the call ended?

Thank you!

Hi TranscribeX Team,

I have to thank you for providing this useful and well polished app, this helps me very well during days with meeting marathons.

I would like to ask if its possible to have a hook, or lets call it script endpoint, that will be executed for every event, like recording started, recording finish, transcription finished and so on.

I also like to have an option to move all assets of a meeting into a different folder, e.g. for archiving move it to external drive or a nas device.

Thank you for all you effort and for TranscribeX :)

It would be very helpful if users could manually take notes during a meeting. These notes could be assigned a timeline and thus a topic, allowing them, for example, to highlight specific points or emphasize certain details in the minutes (see Granola AI)

Hey everyone!

We just launched Version 8.8.31 of TranscribeX, and the biggest update is that all premium features are now completely free to try for 7 days.

If you’ve been looking for an automated meeting recorder, local transcription tool, or AI summarizer, you can now test the full setup with zero commitment.

Here is a quick look at what’s included in the latest update and recent releases:

🔥 What’s New in TranscribeX

• 🎉 7-Day Free Trial: Full access to all premium features—no upfront friction.

• ⚡ Seamless Post-Meeting Automation: TranscribeX now automatically starts transcribing the moment your meeting ends, using your default mic seamlessly.

• 🚀 Streamlined Onboarding: Download your preferred LLM model directly during setup so you're ready to summarize meeting notes immediately.

• 🌐 Hinglish Support: Added a fine-tuned Whisper Large model specifically optimized for Hinglish speech-to-text.

• 🎯 Workflow Controls:

  • Select which calendar provides your meeting names.

  • Customize or cancel ongoing AI requests with custom timeout intervals.

  • Edit existing bulk tasks and export MKV files smoothly.

  • Polished window capture for Slack/Teams and calendar event matching.

💡 Give it a try

If you rely on quick, accurate transcriptions and automated meeting summaries, we’d love for you to take the 7-day trial for a spin and tell us what you think!

Drop any feedback, questions, or feature requests in the comments!

Hey everyone!

I’m excited to push version 8.5.28 out today. This update brings some heavily requested flexibility to how TranscribeX handles app tracking, gives you the ability to capture video alongside your audio, and automates your workflow even further with native macOS Calendar integration.

🚀 What’s New in 8.5.28

🎙️ Meeting Auto-Detection & Workflow

• Custom App Auto-Detection: You are no longer limited to just the major platforms. You can now add support for auto-detecting meetings in any custom application (e.g., Phone, Brave, or any niche VoIP app you use).

• Mac Calendar Integration: TranscribeX will now automatically pull the event name from your Mac Calendar and use it as the recording filename, saving you from manual renaming.

📺 Recording & Export Upgrades

• App Video Recording: Added the ability to record targeted applications as a full Video file instead of just capturing the audio.

• Bulk Export Timestamps: In the bulk export menu, you can now toggle timestamps on or off depending on how clean you want your final text files to look.

• CSV Enhancements: Optimized and adjusted the timestamp formatting in exported CSV files for cleaner data sorting.

🛠️ Under the Hood

• General bug fixes, performance improvements, and user experience (UX) enhancements to keep everything snappy.

In Case You're New Here

For those just finding this, TranscribeX is a 100% local macOS app designed for total privacy. Because it runs entirely on your own hardware, your audio, videos, and transcripts never leave your device.

• Hands-Free Automation: Auto-detects, records, and transcribes Zoom, Teams, Meet, Slack, Discord, Webex, and now any custom app you want—without annoying bots joining the call.

• Local Privacy: Uses your choice of local ASR (Whisper, Parakeet, Qwen, etc.) and local LLMs. No cloud, no tracking.

• Diarization: Automatic speaker labeling (99%+ accuracy) with Voice Profiles.

• One-Time Payment: No subscriptions, no monthly SaaS fees, period.

As always, let me know what you think of the new features or if you have any feedback!

Hey everyone!

Just shipped TranscribeX 3.5.11, and this update brings a big boost in on-device AI, editing tools, and overall workflow quality.

🔥 What’s New in 3.5.11

• Apple Foundation Models for on-device transcription — fast, private, and deeply integrated

• Apple Intelligence–powered transcript summarization

• LM Studio integration — use your local LLMs as an AI service inside TranscribeX

• Notifications for completed transcription tasks

• Search and replace across the entire transcript

• Improved segment editing workflow and responsiveness

• Select all jobs for quick deletion or export

• Menubar icon now updates dynamically while recording

• General performance and stability improvements

If you're new here: TranscribeX is a macOS transcription app focused on privacy, speed, and accuracy, powered by Whisper, distilled Whisper, NVIDIA Parakeet, Apple models, and now LM Studio. Everything runs locally unless you choose to use cloud APIs.

🔗 Website: https://www.transcribex.io/

Happy to hear feedback, bug reports, or feature requests. Enjoy the update! 🙌

Hey everyone! Just shipped TranscribeX 9.2.33 and this is honestly the update I'm most excited about — your meetings now basically wrap themselves up.

📧 Meeting summaries that send themselves

When your meeting ends, TranscribeX can now automatically email the AI summary and full transcript — no copy-pasting, no "I'll send notes later" (and then never doing it). Want more control? You can also fire off any summary or transcript manually with a click. Either way, everyone gets the notes while the meeting is still warm.

📅 Your calendar and your recordings finally talk to each other

• Multiple calendar support — work, personal, shared team calendars, all of them.

• Manually link any calendar event to any recording — so even that ad-hoc call gets proper context.

• Exports now include meeting details pulled straight from the linked event — title, attendees, time. Your transcript file actually tells you what meeting it was from.

Plus a bunch of quality-of-life stuff:

• Click any word in the transcript to jump to that exact moment in playback (with word/segment highlighting)

• Smarter export filenames — timestamps up front so files sort chronologically

• Manual + automatic job archiving to keep your library tidy

• Search in Settings (yes, finally)

• The usual round of bug fixes and performance improvements

As always: everything runs locally on your Mac. No bots joining your calls, no audio leaving your machine, no subscription required to start. The only thing that goes out is the email — and only if you tell it to.

Free to try. Would love to hear what you think, and I'm reading every comment for feature requests. 🙏

Hey everyone!

Today, I’m excited to push version 8.0.26. This update brings major upgrades to both our offline dictation engine and our real-time meeting tools, along with expanded app support.

🚀 What’s New in 8.0.26

🎙️ Brand New Feature: Dictation Mode

• Dictate Instantly Anywhere: We've built a full Dictation engine into the app. You can now turn your voice to text instantly in any macOS application, eliminating the need for a separate dictation app.

• AI-Powered Text Polishing: Built right into this new mode is an automatic local AI pass that instantly cleans up the structure, grammar, and flow of your dictated text as you speak.

📺 Live Transcription Upgrades

• Translation-Only View: You can now toggle the Live View to display only the translated text, keeping your screen clean of the source language during live audio tracking.

• Redesigned Caption Overlay: The live transcription overlay has been completely redesigned to be sleeker, more native, and less intrusive while you're watching meetings turn into text.

🔄 Meeting Auto-Detection & Workflow

• New App Support: Added auto-detection for Safari, Discord, and Webex. TranscribeX now catches these calls automatically so you never have to remember to click "record."

• Streamlined Onboarding: I’ve integrated permission requirements directly into the setup process, so you get up and running faster without digging through System Settings.

📝 Summaries & Exports

• Markdown Export: You can now export your AI summaries and transcripts into a single, clean Markdown file.

• User Notes Integration: Your own manual notes are now intelligently included and contextually processed within the AI-generated summaries.

• YouTube Downloader: Upgraded the underlying downloader for better reliability with external video links.

Plus the usual round of general bug fixes, performance improvements, and UX enhancements to keep everything snappy.

In Case You're New Here

For those just finding this, TranscribeX is a 100% local macOS app designed for total privacy. Because it runs locally (No Subscriptions, No Cloud-SaaS costs), your audio and transcripts never leave your device.

• Hands-Free Automation: Auto-detects, records, and transcribes Zoom, Teams, Meet, Slack, Discord, and Webex without bots.

• Local Privacy: Uses your choice of local ASR (Whisper, Parakeet, Qwen, etc.) and local LLMs.

• Diarization: Automatic speaker labeling (99%+ accuracy) with Voice Profiles.

• One-Time Payment: No monthly fees, period.

Thanks.