Vibe

This is a community package of Vibe, maintained independently. It repackages the official upstream build unmodified.

Vibe transcribes audio and video on your own machine. It runs a bundled Whisper engine locally, so recordings and their transcripts never leave the computer, and transcription keeps working with no network connection once a model has been downloaded.

• Transcribe audio and video files in a wide range of languages
• Batch-transcribe a whole folder in one run
• Record from a capture device and transcribe as you go
• Save transcripts as SRT, VTT, plain text, Markdown, CSV, JSON, HTML, PDF or DOCX
• Optional speaker diarization, voice-activity detection and summarizing
• Optionally fetch the audio for a media URL and transcribe that
• Runs the transcription model on the GPU through Vulkan, falling back to the CPU

Speech models are not bundled: on first use Vibe downloads the model you pick — the default is roughly 1.6 GB — into its private per-app directory, so the first run needs network access and free disk space. Models, settings and logs stay in that private directory and need no permission of their own.

Fetching audio from a URL is an optional feature: the first time you use it, Vibe downloads yt-dlp from its official releases into the same private directory and runs it from there.

By default this package can read and write files in your Videos, Music and Downloads directories. To transcribe media kept elsewhere, grant that location: flatpak override --user --filesystem=/path/to/media io.github.thewh1teagle.vibe. If you prefer to expose your whole home directory, opt in with flatpak override --user --filesystem=home io.github.thewh1teagle.vibe. Remove custom grants with flatpak override --user --reset io.github.thewh1teagle.vibe.

The bundled transcription engine is built for x86-64 processors with AVX2 support. Dictation, which types transcribed text into whichever window has focus, needs an X11 session; everything else works on Wayland.

Install application updates through Flatpak; the built-in updater cannot replace the read-only Flatpak application.