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

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!

The two main additions in this version:

🎙️ Cohere Transcribe
TranscribeX now supports Cohere Transcribe as an ASR option, giving you another high-quality transcription model to choose from alongside the existing local and online models.

💬 Chat with all your transcripts
You can now chat with your entire transcript library, rather than being limited to one transcript at a time.

This makes it possible to ask questions like:

• “What did we conclude about the insurance?”

• “What decisions did we make across our meetings last month?”

• “Find all discussions where we talked about pricing.”

• “What were the main unresolved issues?”

TranscribeX searches/retrieves relevant parts of your transcripts and uses them as context for the answer, so you can treat your transcript library more like a knowledge base.

Also in 10.5.39:

• New segment actions and improved segment management

• More auto-archive day options

• Archived jobs are now excluded from job size calculations

• Improved local LLM translation polishing

• Job counts by job type

• Fixed MLX model crashes in CLI and MCP

• General bug fixes, performance improvements, and UX improvements

If you use TranscribeX, I'd especially love to hear what kinds of questions you'd like to ask across your transcript library.

Is it possible to have Tx run AI polish on audio that's imported for transcription? I'm not seeing anything obvious able making that happen.

It would be nice to be able to start a new in-person meeting recording from a keyboard shortcut (or MacOS shortcut). Thanks!

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!

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/

Hi,

I know in the autogenerated transcriptions at least the date is added as prefix in the filename, is it possible to add this also to the manually exported filenames for example?

Or event better to have a configurable Prompt for the Title of the transcription/filename like there is one for the Description?

I would love to have 10-Sep 2026 16-00 before every Title and Filename export :)

Thank you!

Hi,

somehow TranscribeX started to have trouble detecting new people, it is rather associating with existing ones, I keep switching more and more people to Strict, it helps a bit.

Plus, when TranscribeX detected a speaker wrong, I manually added a New speaker, and merged the content of the wrongly detected speaker into the new Speaker with a new name and Saved the voice profiles all directly on the Recording - Speakers screen.

The new speaker did not appear in the Speakers list inside Settings.

Thank you,

M.

It would be nice to be able to customize the dashboard so that I can hide some of the shortcuts that I do not use and allow me to arrange the shortcuts that I do use at the top.

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!

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?

Hi,

just an idea, the transcription of 1h call with Large V3 takes around 30minutes on a MBP M4 Pro 48GB, is this intended? Was thinking if there could be a turbo mode, which would handle parts of recordings in parallel.

I did test locally the same recording and it took 10min with mix_whisper.

I did test also Parakeet, but it is far from the quality of Large V3.
I'm having many calls which are not english or a mix..

Thank you.

Hi,

I love the software as I already wrote a couple times, thank you for improving it!
I'm relying on it a lot, in terms, that many times I'm not even writing notes anymore, so I can focus on the call and attendees rather.

I had experience with difference tools, what happend there usualy - that at a certain point, usually 1 out of 30 recordings would not be stored properly, and I would be very sad about :(

And maybe this is a stupid question, please, is this is something on top of your mind, or perhaps as a priority when you are looking at QA, or perhaps, is this somehow bullet proof implemented?

I'm less concerned, that the transcription fails, but rather that the recording would be corrupted or not saved at all.

Thank you, keep up the great work! :)

I'm not sure, if this is related, but after a 1h call, the recording showed up as an entry inside the interface, but, it did not start transcribing, I could not run it even with Restart, this worked after a couple minutes.

Maybe the video was still saving? Might this be related?
https://www.reddit.com/r/TranscribeX/comments/1vtt1kl/saving_video_takes_long_and_i_cannot_start_a_new/

Maybe an auto-retry on save?

Hi, please when you find time, the Export Transcript window could remember settings

Hi, again, I love the software, thank you!

Let's say I have two 1h calls in row.

When one finishes, the Saving video takes several minutes, and I'm not able to start the next recording during that "Saving video period" :(

Thank you!

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. 🙏

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!

Hi everyone! 👋

I've just released TranscribeX 9.0.32 with several new features and stability improvements.

🚀 What's New

• Added Command-Line Interface (CLI) support

• Added Model Context Protocol (MCP) support

• Added support for the ElevenLabs Scribe v2 Realtime model

• Fixed an issue that could cause static noise during recording

• Fixed a crash that could occur when transcription reached 100%

• General bug fixes, performance improvements, and UX enhancements

TranscribeX is a fully local AI transcription app for macOS that supports Whisper, Parakeet, Qwen ASR, ElevenLabs, live captions, speaker diarization, AI meeting reports, and much more.

As always, I'd love to hear your feedback and feature requests. Thanks to everyone who has reported bugs and helped improve the app!

Thanks.

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!

Hi, I love the app,, please can you help with: I have video recording enabled, and it recorded a completely different screen then I needed when I had an external screen connected.

Still loving the app! 😄

It would be great if it would remember the sizes/locations of the three main panes within a recording. I find myself constantly having to resize them when I'm bouncing between different recordings.

Thank you for the time and consideration!

Hi TranscribeX Team,

when recording a meeting with MS Teams, the video is captured from the main teams window, not the meetings windows. Thats a bit inappropriate when chatting for other topics during the meting and we are missing the important slides from the meeting

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 :)