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Ibis
Local Whisper transcription for Windows. No cloud.
Ibis runs Whisper large-v3-turbo on your machine. Drop M4A or MP3 files into a folder, get atxt with timestamps. No cloud, no accounts, no uploads. $24 one-time, three devices. For IRB-bound research and any work whose audio cannot legally go to the cloud.
I built Ibis because I needed transcription for IRB-reviewed qualitative research and the cloud options stopped satisfying the protocols I work under. The terms of service of every major cloud transcription provider have moved, in stages over the past 18 months, toward language permitting training on uploaded audio. The gap is now wide enough that I built a tool to live inside it.
Architecture: Whisper large-v3-turbo with int8 quantization on faster-whisper. Watches a folder, transcribes anything that lands there, writes a .txt next to it. Audio in the completed folder is encrypted at rest with age v1; the secret key lives in the Windows Credential Manager. Three independent paths to decrypt your own data, including a standalone recovery script that ships in the installer and works without Ibis itself.
Substantiation paper with the LibriSpeech accuracy benchmark and encryption design: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1...
Happy to answer questions about methodology, IRB compliance, or the architecture.
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About Ibis on Product Hunt
“Local Whisper transcription for Windows. No cloud.”
Ibis was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 0 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #133 on the daily leaderboard. Ibis runs Whisper large-v3-turbo on your machine. Drop M4A or MP3 files into a folder, get atxt with timestamps. No cloud, no accounts, no uploads. $24 one-time, three devices. For IRB-bound research and any work whose audio cannot legally go to the cloud.
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