New app: Scrib — on-device voice transcription
David Ventura's Offline Translator lets other apps plug into a local, offline translation engine instead of shipping their own models. Scrib brings the same idea to transcription.
It turns audio into text entirely on-device with open Whisper models (whisper.cpp) — both as a standalone app and as an engine other apps can call through a small, vendor-neutral AIDL contract (org.opentranscribe.api): no SDK, no network, not tied to Scrib. The Forkgram Telegram client will use it for offline voice messages once Scrib's first release lands on F-Droid.
Required
- The app complies with the inclusion criteria
- The original app author has been notified (and does not oppose the inclusion) — I am the author.
- All related fdroiddata and RFP issues have been referenced in this merge request — there is no related RFP/fdroiddata issue.
- Builds with
fdroid buildand all pipelines pass - There is an issue tracker and contact info of the author
Strongly Recommended
- The upstream app source code repo contains the app metadata (summary/description/images/changelog/etc) in a Fastlane or Triple-T folder structure
- Releases are tagged and auto update is enabled
Suggested
- External repos are added as git submodules instead of srclibs
- Enable Reproducible Builds — No, I don't want this.
- Multiple apks for native code — single arm64-v8a APK (~10.5 MB)
Edited by 23rd