Scribe

Scribe is a speech-to-text CLI and tray app that pipes transcribed text into the focused window. It supports local and cloud-based APIs, batch and streaming workflows.

• Five backends, one interface. Records from your mic and transcribes via Vosk (local, streaming), Whisper (local, batch), Whisper FUTO (local, batch — ACFT-tuned for short dictations), OpenAI (cloud, batch or streaming), or Groq (cloud, batch).
• Four ways to deliver the transcript. Paste into the focused window (default), copy to the clipboard, print to the terminal, or append to a file.
• Tray or terminal. Runs as a system tray icon with a single Record button, or as an interactive terminal TUI — same menu in both.
• Hotkey-friendly. Hooks into your desktop's keyboard shortcuts via SIGUSR1 (toggle recording) and SIGUSR2 (cancel), plus built-in global hotkeys on X11 / Windows.
• Cross-platform. Tested on Ubuntu (X11 and Wayland), macOS, and Windows; works under Termux for clipboard / terminal output.

Get started

pip install scribe-cli[all]
scribe

• Installation — PortAudio, extras, Ubuntu / GNOME tray libs, Windows.
• Quickstart — your first dictation in a couple of minutes.
• Backends — Vosk, Whisper, Whisper FUTO, OpenAI, Groq; streaming vs batch.
• CLI reference — every scribe --help flag with examples.

Guides

• Backends in detail — model lists, streaming recipes, vocabulary biasing.
• Output modes — keystroke vs clipboard vs terminal vs file, Wayland / eitype, --type-direct.
• System tray & global hotkeys — menu tree, icon states, SIGUSR1/SIGUSR2.
• Desktop entry & autostart — scribe-install launcher integration.
• CLI reference — full flag reference and fine tuning.

From the same author

A few other open-source tools I maintain.

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• texmark — write scientific articles in Markdown and convert them to journal-ready LaTeX/PDF.
• papers — command-line BibTeX bibliography and PDF library manager.
• datamanifest — declarative, reproducible dataset management. (See also the datamanifest.toml format spec and the DataManifest.jl Julia port.)

Speech to Text (dictate) and Text to Speech (read-aloud) tools

• bard — text-to-speech reader.