Show HN: Qwen Scribe – local transcription and dictation for Apple Silicon
Qwen Scribe Private, local transcription and system-wide dictation for Apple Silicon. Qwen Scribe transcribes audio and video with Qwen3-ASR running through mlx-qwen3-asr on the Mac's Metal GPU. There is no account, API key, or Qwen Scribe cloud service.
- ▪Qwen Scribe Private, local transcription and system-wide dictation for Apple Silicon.
- ▪Qwen Scribe transcribes audio and video with Qwen3-ASR running through mlx-qwen3-asr on the Mac's Metal GPU.
- ▪There is no account, API key, or Qwen Scribe cloud service.
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Record
| Original publisher | GitHub |
| Canonical URL | https://github.com/VladUZH/qwen-scribe |
| Publication time | Wed, 29 Jul 2026 14:47:22 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-07-29T15:45:59.847Z |
| Last seen | 2026-07-29T15:45:59.847Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | -PLqutVswPN_ · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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Qwen Scribe Private, local transcription and system-wide dictation for Apple Silicon. Qwen Scribe transcribes audio and video with Qwen3-ASR running through mlx-qwen3-asr on the Mac's Metal GPU. There is no account, API key, or Qwen Scribe cloud service. Audio and transcript text stay on the Mac. Project status: v0.1.0-beta.1. Core transcription, history, and dictation work. Releases are source-only for now: app builds are not yet Developer ID signed or notarized, so you build locally with make app. Signed and notarized binaries are planned for v0.2, see ROADMAP.md. Feedback and careful testing are welcome. The interface above uses synthetic demo text; no private recording or transcript is shown.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at GitHub.