transcribe
Local speech-to-text transcription on Apple Silicon macOS. Supports wav directly and other audio formats via ffmpeg.
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- June 6, 2026 at 20:27
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- Local speech-to-text transcription on Apple Silicon macOS. Supports wav directly and other audio formats via ffmpeg.
# Transcribe
Local speech-to-text using `parakeet-cpp-transcribe` on Apple Silicon macOS.
## Usage
```bash
{baseDir}/transcribe.sh <audio-file>
```
The first run downloads the macOS arm64 binary from the latest `badlogic/pibot` GitHub release into the extension's ignored `bin` directory:
```text
{extensionDir}/bin/parakeet-cpp-transcribe
```
(`{extensionDir}` is the parent directory of this skill's `{baseDir}`.) The binary downloads its GGUF model automatically if missing.
## Output
Plain text timestamped in 15 second chunks is written to stdout:
```text
[00:00-00:15] transcript text
[00:15-00:30] more transcript text
```
Model/GGML diagnostic logs are written to stderr. Redirect stderr to hide them:
```bash
{baseDir}/transcribe.sh <audio-file> 2>/dev/null
```
## Requirements
- Apple Silicon macOS only
- `curl` and `tar`
- `ffmpeg` for non-WAV input: `brew install ffmpeg`
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