Transcribe
Local speech-to-text transcription on Apple Silicon macOS. Supports wav directly and other audio formats via ffmpeg.
- Skill ID
- badlogic/pi-skills/transcribe
- Publisher
- badlogic
- Repository
- pi-skills
- Installs
- 0
- Files
- 3
- Synced
- Sep 23, 2026
Open any RiverX project, open the Skills panel in the chat, and search for this identifier. The files are fetched from the source repository at install time.
badlogic/pi-skills/transcribeInstalls these files- .gitignore
- SKILL.md
- transcribe.sh
What this skill tells the agent
Transcribe
Local speech-to-text using parakeet-cpp-transcribe on Apple Silicon macOS.
Usage
{baseDir}/transcribe.sh <audio-file>The first run downloads the macOS arm64 binary from the latest badlogic/pibot GitHub release into the extension's ignored bin directory:
{extensionDir}/bin/parakeet-cpp-transcribe({extensionDir} is the parent directory of this skill's {baseDir}.) The binary downloads its GGUF model automatically if missing.
Output
Plain text timestamped in 15 second chunks is written to stdout:
[00:00-00:15] transcript text
[00:15-00:30] more transcript textModel/GGML diagnostic logs are written to stderr. Redirect stderr to hide them:
{baseDir}/transcribe.sh <audio-file> 2>/dev/nullRequirements
- Apple Silicon macOS only
curlandtarffmpegfor non-WAV input:brew install ffmpeg
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Use this skill in a project
Open any RiverX project, search the Skills panel for badlogic/pi-skills/transcribe, and install it in one click.