I built a 100% local meeting transcriber for macOS — open source

Hey r/SideProject,

After a year of frustration not being able to use Otter/Fireflies due

to my company's compliance rules, I built Scripta — a macOS app that

transcribes meetings entirely offline.

Stack:

- whisper.cpp (Metal GPU) for mic transcription

- Apple SFSpeechRecognizer for system audio (Teams/Zoom/Meet)

- Local Ollama for AI summaries and chat

- SwiftUI for the UI

The interesting part was the dual-channel design — running two

SFSpeechRecognizer instances doesn't work (Apple silently rejects

parallel recognition), so I split it: whisper.cpp for mic, SFSpeech

for system audio.

100% open source (MIT), no signup, no telemetry.

GitHub: https://github.com/thehwang/Scripta

Install:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/thehwang/Scripta/main/scripts/install.sh | bash

Feedback welcome — especially around the install UX and whether the

free Whisper base model is accurate enough for your meetings.