HushScribe — Offline Live Captions & Transcription

Real-time live captions, recorded as they happened (demo audio clip played into the app).

HushScribe turns speech into text entirely on your own computer.
Meetings, lectures, interviews, videos, podcasts — get live captions as it happens, or drop in a file and get a transcript and subtitles. Nothing is uploaded. It works with Wi-Fi off.

Why HushScribe

• 🔒 100% offline & private — audio never leaves your PC. No account, no tracking, no cloud.
• 🎙️ Live captions — from your computer audio (Zoom, Teams, YouTube, any app), your microphone, or both.
• 📁 File transcription — MP3, WAV, M4A, MP4, MKV, MOV and more. Drag & drop.
• 🎯 Accurate mode — Whisper large-v3-turbo, strong even with accents.
• 🌍 16 languages + translate speech to English.
• 💾 Exports — TXT (with or without timestamps), SRT and VTT subtitles. Live sessions are saved with the recording.
• 💸 Pay once, $1.99 — no subscription, no minutes limit.

Languages

English, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German, Russian, Japanese, Polish, French, Turkish, Indonesian, Dutch, Korean, Chinese, Vietnamese, plus Auto-detect.

Requirements

• Windows 10 (1809+) or Windows 11, 64-bit
• ~1.3 GB free disk space (the AI models are included — nothing else to download)
• 8 GB RAM recommended for Accurate mode

Installing

1. Download and run HushScribe-Setup-1.1.0.exe.
2. Windows may show "Windows protected your PC" because we're a small independent developer without a paid code-signing certificate. Click More info → Run anyway.
3. No admin rights needed. Uninstall any time from Settings → Apps.

Prefer the Microsoft Store (signed, auto-updates)? HushScribe is also available there: apps.microsoft.com/detail/9N3N2K54GXR4

Privacy

HushScribe doesn't connect to the internet and doesn't collect any data. Live sessions are saved only in your Documents folder ("HushScribe Sessions").

Built on open source: faster-whisper, CTranslate2, OpenAI Whisper models (MIT), FFmpeg (LGPL). Notices are included in the install folder.