A self-hostable offline audio transcription app. State-of-the-art AI models, running entirely on your machine.

17 Contibutors including Mr. Gipity Claud

https://github.com/rishikanthc/scriberr

NOTES FROM DEVELOPER

Apologies for the radio silence… I did find a new job, but had to move across the country for it. So between multiple moves, settling down into the new job and just recuperating from all the stress and anxiety I went through during the process made me want to take some time off… So I was taking it easy, spending time with my family and didn’t really have a lot of free time nor the mindset to work on my personal projects… That said, things are good now and boredom has been creeping up and I have been itching to get back into my personal projects… I still need to setup my self-hosting server which I have been procrastinating for a while now xD

TLDR the project isn’t abandoned. I’ll be starting development again this week :) Look like a lot of advancements and developments have happened in this domain in the past few months and I could actually use your input and thoughts on something. Please check #485 and please do drop your thoughts and comments. I would like to get the communities input on this one to decide next steps. Also, thanks for all the love and support ! Y’all are awesome.

Why I built this

The inspiration for Scriberr was born out of privacy paranoia and not wanting to pay for subscription. About a year ago, I purchased a Plaud Note for recording voice memos. I loved the device itself; the form factor, microphone quality, and workflow were excellent.

However, transcription was done on their cloud servers. As someone who is paranoid about privacy I wasn’t comfortable with uploading my recordings to a third party provider. Moreover I was hit with subscription costs: $100 a year for 20 hours of transcription per month, or $240 a year for unlimited access. As an avid self-hoster with a background in ML and AI, it felt wrong to pay such a premium for a service I knew I could engineer myself.

I decided to build Scriberr to bridge that gap, creating a powerful, private, and free alternative for everyone.

Cross posted from https://lemmy.wtf/post/49244090

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“What was once a terrible nightmare for you has now become a reality, deal with it.”

General Dan Kain, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the United States Armed Forces, had previously said at the U.S. Army’s Airspace and Cyberspace Conference:

“From now on, we must base the assumption that our units and military formations will be hunted by autonomous systems, will be disrupted across the frequency spectrum and will be tracked in real time.”

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The era when your F-35s and F-15s are hunted 
and you have to report them damaged ✍️
has already begun. 
What was once pure nightmare fuel is now the daily
reality. Live with it.

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