bosscribe 0.1.0

Dead-simple CLI to transcribe audio files. Your boss sends voice notes — you need them as text.

🎙️ Bosscribe

Your boss just sent another 4-minute voice note. You're not listening to that. 🙅

transcribe voice_note.opus

Boom. Text. Paste it into ChatGPT, reply, get on with your life. Runs 100% on your machine — no API keys, no accounts, nobody snooping on what your boss rambled about.

Install

pip install bosscribe

That's it. You also need FFmpeg (it does the audio heavy lifting) — but don't sweat it: if it's missing, Bosscribe spots it on first run and offers to install it for you. 🪄

✗ FFmpeg isn't installed.
  Bosscribe can install it for you via Homebrew:
    brew install ffmpeg
  Install FFmpeg now? [Y/n]

Prefer doing it yourself? brew install ffmpeg · choco install ffmpeg · sudo apt install ffmpeg

Use

transcribe note.opus            # spit it to the terminal
transcribe note.opus --save     # stash it as note.txt
transcribe note.opus --copy     # straight to your clipboard 📋
transcribe note.opus -l hi      # boss switched to Hindi mid-sentence? cool.
transcribe note.opus -m small   # want it sharper? bigger model. (tiny→large-v3-turbo)
transcribe note.opus | pbcopy   # pipe it wherever you want

Sick of typing the same flags? Set defaults once and forget:

transcribe config --save-to ~/notes   # always save here
transcribe config --model small       # always use this model
transcribe config --show              # what did I set again?

Throw any format at it — .opus, .mp3, .wav, .m4a, .ogg, .flac, whatever. WhatsApp .opus notes? Works out of the box, no fiddling.

First run grabs the model (~74 MB for the default), then it's cached forever. Apple Silicon flexes mlx-whisper; everyone else rides faster-whisper. Either way it's fast and it's offline.

Why though?

Because it's 2026 and you still shouldn't have to manually transcribe a voice note like a court stenographer. Your boss is busy. So are you. Let the robot listen.

License

MIT — do whatever you want with it. © 2026 Hetansh Waghela.