Don’t want to install Vibe? Drop the file here.
The first 20 minutes of any recording are transcribed free: a recording up to 20 minutes transcribes in full, a longer one is previewed, and a pack from $6 (500 minutes) transcribes the rest and opens every export, and credits never expire.
Set up the Vibe desktop app for offline Whisper transcription on Mac, Windows and Linux, and fix model download errors, GPU detection and batch issues.
Download from the Vibe site or GitHub releases (Tauri app, all three platforms).
First launch downloads a Whisper model; you can switch sizes in Settings → Models.
Drop multiple files at once — Vibe queues them; exports per-file to TXT/SRT/VTT/JSON.
The models come from Hugging Face; if blocked, download the GGML .bin manually and point Settings → Models at the file.
Vibe uses Vulkan for GPU on Windows — update GPU drivers; on old iGPUs it silently falls back to CPU.
Auto-detect reads the first 30 seconds — if the intro is music or another language, set the language explicitly.
No — it's file-only. Use a hosted service that fetches URLs server-side, then keep Vibe for private local files.
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Skip the setup and send the file or the link: see transcribing a long MP3 or M4A, how to transcribe a podcast and an SRT subtitle file from any recording.
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