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Qwen Scribe transcribes audio and video with Qwen3-ASR running through mlx-qwen3-asr on the Mac's Metal GPU. There is no account, API key, or Qwen Scribe cloud service. Audio and transcript text stay on the Mac. Project status: v0.1.0-beta.1. Core transcription, history, and dictation work. Releases are source-only for now: app builds are not yet Developer ID signed or notarized, so you build locally with make app. Signed and notarized binaries are planned for v0.2, see ROADMAP.md. Feedback and careful testing are welcome. The interface above uses synthetic demo text; no private recording or transcript is shown. The 1.7B model needs roughly 3.4 GB of unified memory and the 0.6B model roughly 1.2 GB, in addition to normal application overhead. Model weights are not included in this repository. The generated app is self-contained except for Python dependencies and model weights, which it installs or downloads on first use. You may move both apps from dist/ to /Applications after building: An app built locally is ad-hoc signed. If Gatekeeper blocks a downloaded build, right-click it and choose Open once. Stable public binaries should be signed with an Apple Developer ID and notarized; see ROADMAP.md. Then open http://127.0.0.1:8990. The first transcription downloads the selected model once. Subsequent use works offline once dependencies and weights are cached. Desktop dictation starts with the Mac app. On first launch, allow Qwen Scribe in System Settings → Privacy & Security for: