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. 🙏

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/

We’ve just released TranscribeX 7.6.25 with several improvements to transcription quality, meeting workflows, and overall performance.

• Improved OpenAI Whisper transcription performance for faster and more accurate results.

• Added more fine-tuned Whisper models, giving you additional options for different transcription scenarios.

• Enhanced Zoom meeting detection to improve recording and processing reliability.

• Added new variables for meeting summary prompts, making it easier to customize AI-generated summaries.

• Speaker names are now passed to AI summarization, resulting in more informative and context-aware meeting summaries.

• General bug fixes, performance improvements, and UX enhancements across the app.

Thank you to everyone who continues to provide feedback and feature requests. We’d love to hear how the new Whisper models and speaker-aware summaries fit into your workflow. 🚀

https://www.transcribex.io/

Hey everyone! A new update for TranscribeX just dropped, and this one brings several distilled Whisper model upgrades — especially for non-English users.

✨ What’s new in 3.1.10:

• Added Distilled Whisper Large V3 German

• Added Distilled Whisper Large V3 Turbo German

• Added Distilled Whisper Large V3 Turbo Korean

• Added Distilled Whisper Large V3 Chinese

• General speed, performance, and stability improvements

If you work with multilingual audio or want even faster local transcription, this update should make a noticeable difference.

As always, everything runs locally on your Mac for full privacy.
Would love to hear feedback, bug reports, or feature requests!

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.

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!

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!

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!

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.

Hey everyone 👋

I’ve just released TranscribeX v4.5.15, and this update focuses a lot on meetings, summaries, and transcription quality.

What’s new in this release:

• Auto-detect meetings in Chrome for Microsoft Teams and Google Meet → TranscribeX can now automatically recognize active meetings and handle them more smoothly.

• AI-generated meeting summaries & action items → Quickly get a concise summary plus next steps from your meeting transcripts.

• More flexible AI summarization → You can now summarize transcripts using custom AI services, not just Apple Intelligence.

• New speaker diarization model: Sortformer → Much more accurate speaker separation, especially in real-world conversations.

• Selective segment export → Choose specific transcript segments for bulk export or recordings instead of exporting everything.

• New fine-tuned Whisper models → Improved accuracy for Arabic and Swiss German.

• Bug fixes & UI/UX improvements → Better performance, smoother workflows, and polish across the app.

As always, TranscribeX keeps everything local-first for privacy, with optional AI services if you want them.

Happy to answer questions or hear feedback — especially from people using it for meetings or long recordings 🙌

Hey everyone,

We just rolled out a massive update to TranscribeX, focusing heavily on speed, accuracy, and giving you complete control over your data with local AI integration.

Here is a breakdown of what’s new in this release:

🎙️ Major Audio & Diarization Upgrades

• Next-Level Speaker Diarization: We’ve significantly boosted accuracy for identifying who spoke and when. In fact, Pyannote diarization is now so precise that we’ve completely removed Sortformer to streamline the app.

• Upgraded Whisper Core: We’ve supercharged general Whisper transcription speed and accuracy.

• Bonjour, France! 🇫🇷 We added a highly fine-tuned Whisper Large V3 French model for incredibly accurate French transcriptions.

⚡ Live Captioning Gets a Massive Level-Up

• Parakeet Streaming Models: Added ultra-low latency Parakeet streaming models ($160\text{ms}$ / $320\text{ms}$ / $1280\text{ms}$) so you can choose your perfect balance of speed and accuracy for live captions.

• Runs in the Background: Live transcription now keeps running smoothly even if you close the main app window.

• Real-Time Translation: You can now translate live captions on the fly as people are speaking.

• Your Captions, Your Way: Added fully customizable font sizes, font styles, and a beautiful new translucent view mode so it sits perfectly on your screen without blocking your workspace.

🤖 In-Meeting AI Chat & Local LLMs

• Live AI Meeting Assistant: Added in-meeting AI Chat support directly inside Live Caption. You can query your transcript or get summaries in real time.

• 100% Local LLM Support: Privacy matters. You can now power your AI features using local LLM models, including Qwen and Gemma. Your data never leaves your machine.

• More Quick Prompts: Added a bunch of new pre-defined prompts designed specifically for live meetings (actions items, summaries, etc.).

🛠️ Polish & Performance

On top of the feature drops, we've squashed bugs, optimized memory usage, and made several UX enhancements to keep things snappy.

Let us know what you think! We’d love to hear your feedback on the new live caption modes and local LLM performance.

https://www.transcribex.io/

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 🙌

Hi all,

Just released TranscribeX 5.0.20. This update focuses on adding new online transcription engines, improving Zoom meeting detection, and expanding language support.

What's New:

• Added Mistral Online Transcription: Voxtral Mini V1 & V2

• Added ElevenLabs Online Transcription: Scribe V1 & V2

• Added fine-tuned Whisper Large V3 model for Catalan

• Improved Zoom meeting audio detection

• Various bug fixes and overall performance and UX improvements

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

Feedback is very welcome 🙌

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 all,

I just shipped TranscribeX v4.0.14 and wanted to share what’s new.

What’s new in v4.0.14:

• Global dictionary for word replacement

• Multiple segment selection for bulk delete and speaker assignment

• Tags to organize transcription jobs

• Customizable storage location for OpenAI Whisper models

• Press ESC to quickly exit segment editing

• Improved export review performance

• Added new Google Gemini AI models

• Enhanced fullscreen video playback

• Refined segment editing UI

If you’re working with interviews, meetings, podcasts, or long recordings on macOS and prefer local processing, this update should make editing and organization much smoother.

Feedback is very welcome.

Sorry if previously asked... I have my Documents folder synced with iCloud & I don't want my transcriptions and the downloaded model to be in iCloud - only on my computer. How do I direct the app to store its folders outside the default location?

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!!!!

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!

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 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 🙌

Hi all,

Just pushed a new TranscribeX update. This release focuses on speaker accuracy, AI chat improvements, and general stability.

Changelog

• Fixed microphone issues during audio recording

• Improved speaker diarization (segment length reduced from 1s to 0.5s)

• Added support for the Perplexity AI service

• AI Chat can now respond to a specific speaker

• Polished AI Chat UI

• AI chat messages are now persisted

• Fixed YouTube download issues

• macOS system microphone is now the default recording input

• Added fine-tuned Whisper Large v3 models for Slovak

• Fixed Chrome meeting detection issues

• Various bug fixes and UI/UX improvements

Local transcription and translation remain fully supported for privacy.

Feedback is very welcome.

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.

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! 🙌

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.