# Scriberr

> Scriberr is a self-hosted transcription server (Docker or Homebrew, web UI on port 8080) using Whisper, NVIDIA Parakeet or Canary with word-level timing. Diarization uses pyannote and needs a free Hugging Face token plus accepting the model terms. Summaries and chat use Ollama or an OpenAI-compatible API. MIT code; Parakeet, Canary and pyannote weights are CC-BY-4.0. CPU and CUDA images. Last release v1.2.0 (Dec 2025); the author says work is resuming.

- Repository: https://github.com/rishikanthc/Scriberr
- Official docs: https://github.com/rishikanthc/Scriberr#readme
- Checked: 2026-10-15

## What it replaces
- Otter.ai: Meeting transcription, Speaker identification, Meeting summaries (partial). Transcribes uploaded or recorded audio with speaker labels and summaries; it does not join live meetings.
- ElevenLabs: Speech recognition (full). Self-hosted transcription with word timing and diarization.

## Facts, with sources

| Question | Status | Answer | Source | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Runs on my machine? | Confirmed | Yes, self-hosted server with a browser UI; fully offline | https://github.com/rishikanthc/Scriberr#introduction | 2026-10-15 |
| Code licence | Confirmed | MIT | https://github.com/rishikanthc/Scriberr/blob/main/LICENSE | 2026-10-15 |
| Model weights licence | Confirmed | Whisper MIT; Parakeet, Canary and pyannote community-1 CC-BY-4.0 (pyannote is gated) | https://huggingface.co/pyannote/speaker-diarization-community-1 | 2026-10-15 |
| Commercial use | Confirmed | Yes; MIT code, MIT and CC-BY-4.0 weights with attribution | https://github.com/rishikanthc/Scriberr/blob/main/LICENSE | 2026-10-15 |
| Paid services needed? | Partial | None required; OpenAI API optional for summaries and chat (free Hugging Face token for diarization) | https://github.com/rishikanthc/Scriberr#configuration | 2026-10-15 |
| Hardware | Partial | CPU image for machines without NVIDIA GPU; CUDA images for GTX 10 to RTX 50 series. RAM not documented | https://github.com/rishikanthc/Scriberr#docker-deployment | 2026-10-15 |
| Operating systems | Partial | Homebrew on macOS and Linux, plus Docker; Windows not mentioned | https://github.com/rishikanthc/Scriberr#install-with-homebrew-macos--linux | 2026-10-15 |
| Setup effort | Confirmed | Medium; Homebrew or Docker Compose, first start downloads models and may take minutes | https://github.com/rishikanthc/Scriberr#app-startup | 2026-10-15 |

GitHub: 3101 stars, 270 forks, last push 2026-09-20, archived: no.
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