Transcribee: Open-Source macOS Video Transcriber That Creates Self-Organizing Knowledge Base
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Summary
Transcribee is an open-source macOS application that transcribes video content from YouTube, Instagram Reels, TikTok, and local media files. The tool automatically organizes transcripts into a structured knowledge base in the user's Documents folder, with speaker-labeled transcripts that can be easily used with AI models like ChatGPT or Claude. The creator developed it to solve the problem of consuming large amounts of video content and wanting to retain knowledge from it permanently. The application is also available as a Clawdbot skill for integration with AI agents.
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Over time, your ~/Documents/transcripts/ folder naturally evolves into a personal library:
Each transcript is speaker-labeled and ready to paste into ChatGPT, Claude, or any LLM.
I consume a lot of video content — YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, podcasts, interviews. I wanted to:
transcribee does exactly that. Transcribe once, knowledge stays forever.
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