Qwen Scribe is an open-source macOS app for Apple Silicon that provides private, fully on-device audio and video transcription using the Qwen3-ASR model via MLX. It supports drag-and-drop file transcription, automatic language detection, SRT export, transcript history, and system-wide dictation triggered by holding the right Command key. No cloud service, API key, or account is required. Currently at v0.1.0-beta.1, it requires building from source. The architecture uses a FastAPI job queue serving a browser UI and a native macOS dictation helper, with GPU jobs serialized to avoid memory contention.
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