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Welcome! Scribe is a simple, compact, offline, GUI based media transcriber that enables you to search for local media content based on its spoken words.

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Overview

Scribe uses OpenAI's whisper model to process audio files.
FFmpeg is used beforehand to handle a wide variety of media formats.

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whisper: https://github.com/openai/whisper
FFmpeg: https://ffmpeg.org

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Installation

1. Ensure you have Python 3.9 or 3.10 installed (not tested on newer versions)
   You can check your version by typing this command:

python --version

2. Download the bootstrapper from https://github.com/o7q/Scribe/releases
3. Select your preferred device type (CPU or CUDA)
   You can check your CUDA version by typing this command:

nvidia-smi

4. Click install and wait for it to complete

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Interface

Selection

• Add Folder Button Adds a watch folder to scan from
• Remove Folder Button Removes the selected watch folder
• Media Formats Textbox Media formats to scan for (separate with a comma)
• Subdirectories Checkbox Enable the searching of subdirectories

Processing

• Auto Update Checkbox Enable the automatic processing of watch folders
• Update Button Manually process media
• Start With Windows Button Makes the program start with your computer
• Display Output Checkbox Display a console while processing
• Pause Checkbox Insert a pause command
• Use GPU Checkbox Enable the usage of supported NVIDIA CUDA GPUs
• Model Listbox The model for the whisper speech-to-text algorithm (default is: small)
• Abort Button Cancels the process
• Clean Button Cleans storage files that no longer have the corresponding media file tied to it, it also cleans temporary files

Searching

• Phrase Search Textbox The phrase to search for
• File Search Textbox The specific file to search for (leave blank to show all files that contain the phrase)
• Search Button Searches with the specified settings
• Auto Update Checkbox Automatically updates the search without having to click the Search Button
• Case Sensitive Checkbox Enable case sensitivity
• Open File Button Opens the selected file
• Browse File Button Browses to the selected file in Windows Explorer

Viewing

• View Panel This will display all of the written text as well as their timestamps of the selection media, it will highlight every occurrence of the searched phrase

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Scribe
Written in C# with .NET Framework 4.8