Live captions for your stream.

Turn your microphone or desktop audio into captions privately. Style them to match your stream, and use OBS the way you're already used to.

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Made for creators

Live captions and an OBS overlay, built around your existing stream tools.

Free and open source

No fees, no subscription, no API key required.

Local processing

Data never leaves your computer. All audio and text processing happens where you have full control over it.

Explore the different ways Scrybe can be used.

Scrybe runs speech recognition on your computer. Choose from one of the built-in presets, or use your own model file.

Audio in whisper.cpp Captions out
[00:02.6]Thank you for the raid itswill.
[00:05.2]Scrybe processes your audio on your computer.
[00:07.8]Choose a preset that suits your computer.
[00:10.4]All right, back to the game.
Planned

Speaker-aware transcripts

Further improvements to caption segmentation and speaker identification are planned.

From installation to captions on stream.

Install the desktop app, prepare your captions, and add the overlay to an OBS scene.

  1. Install and launch Scrybe

    Download Scrybe for your operating system. The app currently downloads a model preset for local transcription.

  2. Style your captions

    Open the Overlay page to adjust the caption box’s position, size, colors, and text.

  3. Add the overlay to OBS

    Create a browser source in OBS and paste this local overlay URL.

    http://localhost:3030/app/v1/overlay
  4. Start captions

    Choose your audio source in Settings, then select Start captions. Your captions appear in the overlay.

Powered by whisper.cpp.

Scrybe embeds whisper.cpp for local speech recognition. Model files are downloaded for use on your computer.

whisper.cpp is Georgi Gerganov's port of OpenAI's Whisper speech-recognition model to plain C/C++. More at whisper.cpp.

Native application
Rust/C++
Hardware acceleration depends on the platform and build
CPU + GPU
No transcription API subscription
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