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.

Highlights:

• Drag-and-drop audio and video transcription in a focused local web interface
• Qwen3-ASR 1.7B for accuracy or 0.6B for speed
• Automatic language detection, optional forced language, vocabulary hints, word timestamps, and SRT export
• Automatic local transcript history with search, reopen, export-all, individual delete, and delete-all controls
• Hold the configured push-to-talk key (right Command by default; right Option or right Control if you prefer) in any text field, speak, then release to transcribe locally and paste at the cursor
• Menu-bar status item with the dictation state, a push-to-talk key picker, and explicit restart and quit controls
• A non-focus-stealing HUD for Listening, Transcribing, success, and failure states
• Localhost-only API with Host and browser-origin checks