---
title: "noScribe Ships Batch Queuing for Fully Offline Open-Source Transcription"
subtitle: "A free, GPL-3.0 desktop app wraps Whisper and pyannote for fully offline interview transcription with speaker diarization and a built-in editor."
url: "https://alphasignal.ai/news/noscribe-ships-batch-queuing-for-fully-offline-open-source-transcription"
author: "AlphaSignal Newsroom"
author_url: "https://alphasignal.ai/editorial-team"
company: "AlphaSignal"
company_url: "https://alphasignal.ai/company/alphasignal"
published: "2026-04-17T17:08:56.000Z"
updated: "2026-08-22T04:13:36.718Z"
type: "Repo"
topics:
  - "Audio"
  - "Open Source"
subtopics:
  - "Speech To Text"
upvotes: 48
source_url: "https://github.com/kaixxx/noScribe"
comments: 0
truncated: true
---

# noScribe Ships Batch Queuing for Fully Offline Open-Source Transcription

> A free, GPL-3.0 desktop app wraps Whisper and pyannote for fully offline interview transcription with speaker diarization and a built-in editor.

Sending confidential interviews to a cloud API is a non-starter for a lot of research, journalism, medical, and legal work. [noScribe](https://github.com/kaixxx/noScribe) is a desktop app that wraps OpenAI's Whisper, faster-whisper, and pyannote into a single GUI, so you can run high-quality transcription with speaker diarization entirely on your own machine. The project has quietly grown to around 2,100 stars and just shipped version 0.7, which adds a proper batch queue.

The app is free and open source (GPL-3.0), runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux, distinguishes between different speakers, and understands around 60 languages. It builds on Whisper from OpenAI, faster-whisper by Guillaume Klein, and pyannote from Hervé Bredin. Originally aimed at qualitative social research, it has picked up users in journalism, medicine, companies, government agencies, and NGOs.

## Version 0.7: a queue that actually queues

The headline addition is a job queue. You can line up multiple recordings overnight, which matters because a one-hour file is not fast to process locally. The queue tab lists every job with its state and progress, and you can cancel, restart, or open partial transcripts even if a run errored out mid-way.

_Preview only. Full text requires an AlphaSignal Pro account._

## Sources

- [kaixxx/noScribe on GitHub](https://github.com/kaixxx/noScribe)
- [noScribe Official Website](https://noscribe.de/en/)
- [Best Transcription Tools For Qualitative Research in 2026](https://sonix.ai/resources/transcription-tools-for-qualitative-research/)
- [Technology - Qualitative Research Guide, Notre Dame](https://libguides.library.nd.edu/qualitative-research/technology)