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Re: Show HN: Scriber Pro – Offline AI transcription for macOS

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Post by Telemakhos » Wed, Oct 15, 2025, 1:00 PM UTC

What languages does this support? Does it support switching between multiple languages in one video?

For example, could it support a video that included spoken Latin, ancient Greek, German, and Italian?

Re: Show HN: Scriber Pro – Offline AI transcription for macOS

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Post by nvdnadj92 » Wed, Oct 15, 2025, 1:00 PM UTC

I vibecoded a similar app. Here’s the open source link, if folks want to build their own:

https://github.com/naveedn/audio-transcriber

Re: Show HN: Scriber Pro – Offline AI transcription for macOS

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Post by tomalbrc » Wed, Oct 15, 2025, 1:01 PM UTC

trvr wrote: post #7

Is there a reason it requires macOS 26?

Tahoe really is just unusable

Re: Show HN: Scriber Pro – Offline AI transcription for macOS

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Post by rezivor » Wed, Oct 15, 2025, 1:02 PM UTC

trvr wrote: post #7

Is there a reason it requires macOS 26?

Uses liquidGlass fairly heavily- just design reasons-- I'm happy to expand compatibility

Re: Show HN: Scriber Pro – Offline AI transcription for macOS

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Post by yewenjie » Wed, Oct 15, 2025, 1:05 PM UTC

Does it support speaker diarization?

Re: Show HN: Scriber Pro – Offline AI transcription for macOS

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Post by trvr » Wed, Oct 15, 2025, 1:06 PM UTC

tomalbrc wrote: post #13

trvr wrote: post #7

Is there a reason it requires macOS 26?

Tahoe really is just unusable

Hence why I'm asking why it requires it. Trying to hold off as long as I can!

Re: Show HN: Scriber Pro – Offline AI transcription for macOS

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Post by trvr » Wed, Oct 15, 2025, 1:08 PM UTC

rezivor wrote: post #14

trvr wrote: post #7

Is there a reason it requires macOS 26?

Uses liquidGlass fairly heavily- just design reasons-- I'm happy to expand compatibility

At $3.99 this was an instant buy for me until the App Store told me I couldn't. I think the venn diagram between HN users and those holding off on Tahoe is probably a pretty big overlap. ;-)

Re: Show HN: Scriber Pro – Offline AI transcription for macOS

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Post by rezivor » Wed, Oct 15, 2025, 1:08 PM UTC

tomalbrc wrote: post #13

trvr wrote: post #7

Is there a reason it requires macOS 26?

Tahoe really is just unusable

Thanks. An update that will add functionality that allows a user to give it a link that contains web video, will do dynamic link discovery (with Safari extension, and pull in the video automatically (M3U8 discover and retrieval) -- Lots of online lecture videos that need transcription.

I will include better version support (probably to os 13).

Re: Show HN: Scriber Pro – Offline AI transcription for macOS

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Post by ta1243 » Wed, Oct 15, 2025, 1:09 PM UTC

rezivor wrote: post #10

Oras wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The landing page is difficult to read due to the strong red background.

Thank you. I have heard this : P - It will change soon.

I learned this as a young developer writing status pages. I had a colour-blind colleague, so text on green/yellow/red.

Typically white text works better on red.

Re: Show HN: Scriber Pro – Offline AI transcription for macOS

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Post by scilro » Wed, Oct 15, 2025, 1:11 PM UTC

Seconding/thirding the request for diarization! I would use this as my main transcription app if it had that.