Transcribe.cpp
Ranked 7 of 25 speech recognition models by recommenders
Free, fast, fully local transcription library with an embeddable C++ engine, language bindings and streaming support, praised for accuracy and easier integration than its predecessor.
Free, fast, fully local transcription library with an embeddable C++ engine, language bindings and streaming support, praised for accuracy and easier integration than its predecessor.
22 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 21
- criticize it
- 1
- approval share
- 95%
Recommended in 1 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 21 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 21 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 1 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Easy integration with language bindings
“Having one embeddable engine across Vulkan, Metal and CUDA, along with maintained language bindings, addresses a real distribution problem.”
Comment from 20 Jul 2026 in “Transcribe.cpp” “a fast, local, c++-based transcription library with first-party ts bindings”
Comment from 19 Jul 2026 in “Transcribe.cpp” “It works very well, the integration is much easier than before,”
Comment from 19 Jul 2026 in “Transcribe.cpp” - Comment from 19 Jul 2026 in “Transcribe.cpp”
Streaming transcription support
“word boosting will probably come on a much longer time horizon, but streaming is here!”
Comment from 19 Jul 2026 in “Transcribe.cpp” “streaming support (which I’m so glad this has!)”
Comment from 19 Jul 2026 in “Transcribe.cpp” Accurate, tested transcription including filler words
“It transcribes everything very accurately, especially all the "ahs" and "uhms".”
Comment from 21 Jul 2026 in “Transcribe.cpp” “every model is actually tested for accuracy instead of just claiming it works”
Comment from 19 Jul 2026 in “Transcribe.cpp” Runs fully offline on modest devices
“near realtime offline stt on a 10 year old phone”
Comment from 19 Jul 2026 in “Transcribe.cpp” “fully local transcribe.cpp in your browser”
Comment from 28 Jul 2026 in “Transcribe.cpp”
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The four most recommended other speech recognition models, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAI Whisper | 164 | 53 | 76% | 12 | — | Approved |
| NVIDIA Parakeet | 144 | 27 | 84% | 12 | — | Approved |
| Mistral Voxtral | 69 | 27 | 72% | 8 | — | Approved |
| Moonshine open-weights STT models | 37 | 13 | 74% | 7 | — | Approved |
| Transcribe.cppThis page | 21 | 1 | 95% | 1 | — | — |
What people said
21 of the 24 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“fully local transcribe.cpp in your browser”
“It transcribes everything very accurately, especially all the "ahs" and "uhms".”
“this is some quality work you're putting out there”
“How am I supposed to actually use the Cuda binaries available in the releases section, through a separately downloaded Python wheel?”
“Having one embeddable engine across Vulkan, Metal and CUDA, along with maintained language bindings, addresses a real distribution problem.”
“I found this to work much better then the old transcribe-rs lib”
“It works very well, the integration is much easier than before,”
“working pretty well so far”
“word boosting will probably come on a much longer time horizon, but streaming is here!”
“streaming support (which I’m so glad this has!)”
“Well this almost seems to be to good to be true.”
“every model is actually tested for accuracy instead of just claiming it works”
“Looks very cool. One thing I have been looking for, which this doesn't seem to cover”
“it sounds like it eases through the pain of dealing with these”
“a fast, local, c++-based transcription library with first-party ts bindings”
“Amazing, i've been looking for something like this”
“near realtime offline stt on a 10 year old phone”
“I agree this should be everywhere and I hope to distribute libtranscribe some day properly”
“I do think the transcription is a bit faster.”
“This is an incredible contribution to the community”
“With this having Rust support (I built it on Rust/Tauri) it should be a pretty solid candidate”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.