Bring your own AI

This is the difference. A commercial recorder locks you to its cloud. OpenScribe lets you point transcription and summaries at whatever you want.

Transcription and summarisation each target a provider you choose in configuration. Use a fully local model for maximum privacy, an open-standard endpoint, or a commercial API for the best quality. There is no lock-in, and you can switch at any time. Self-hosted or not, it is your choice and your data.

Language and summaries

• OpenAI, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint
• Anthropic Claude
• Groq for fast, low-cost inference
• Local models via Ollama or LM Studio, fully offline
• Gemini through its OpenAI-compatible endpoint

Transcription

• faster-whisper, self-hosted, running on your own machine
• Any OpenAI-compatible audio endpoint, such as OpenAI Whisper or Groq
• Your own whisper server

How it is configured

Each provider is a few lines of configuration on the server: a provider name, a base URL, an API key and a model. Almost every provider speaks the same OpenAI-compatible protocol, so a single setting covers most of the ecosystem. Anthropic Claude has its own dedicated integration. Pick a provider, drop in the details, and OpenScribe does the rest.