Welcome! Scribe is a simple, compact, offline, GUI based media transcriber that enables you to search for local media content based on its spoken words.
Scribe uses OpenAI's whisper model to process audio files.
FFmpeg is used beforehand to handle a wide variety of media formats.
stable-ts: https://github.com/jianfch/stable-ts
FFmpeg: https://ffmpeg.org
- Ensure you have Python 3.9 or 3.10 installed (not tested on newer versions)
You can check your version by typing this command:
python --version- Download the bootstrapper from https://github.com/o7q/Scribe/releases
- Select your preferred device type (CPU or CUDA)
You can check your CUDA version by typing this command:
nvidia-smi
- Click install and wait for it to complete
By default, Scribe configures FFmpeg in the PATH environment variable. If you are having issues with Scribe not working correctly, check if FFmpeg was added to the PATH environment variable correctly.
Selection
- Add Folder Adds a watch folder to scan from
- Remove Folder Removes the selected watch folder
- Filetypes Filetypes formats to scan for (separate with a comma)
- Scan Subdirectories Enable the scanning of subdirectories
Processing
- Start With Windows Makes the program start with your computer
- Auto Update Enable the automatic processing of watch folders
- Use GPU (CUDA) Enable the usage of supported NVIDIA CUDA GPUs
- Model The model for the whisper speech-to-text algorithm (default is: small)
- Language The language for the whisper speech-to-text algorithm (default is: English)
- Media Buffer The amount of media files Scribe will buffer before finalizing, the higher the number the faster the processing, but I wouldn't recommend going above 30 because of limitations relating the the Windows Command Prompt. (this because the max command length is 8191)
- Debug Enable debug/verbose mode, this will display all intermediate steps during processing
- Update Manually process media
- Abort Cancels the process
- Clean Cleans storage files that no longer have the corresponding media file tied to it, it also cleans temporary files
Searching
- Phrase Search The phrase to search for
- File Search The specific file to search for (leave blank to show all files that contain the phrase)
- Search Searches with the specified settings
- Auto Update Automatically updates the search without having to click the Search Button
- Case Sensitive Enable case sensitivity
- Open File Opens the selected file
- Browse File Browses to the selected file in Windows Explorer
Viewing
- View Panel This will display all of the written text as well as their timestamps of the selection media, it will highlight every occurrence of the searched phrase
Scribe
Written in C# using .NET 8.0