nexmoe / VidBee

VidBee 
VidBee is a free, open-source desktop app that turns video and audio into an organized, searchable library. Download media from 1000+ supported sites or import local files. Create transcripts on your computer with speaker labels and timestamped playback, then summarize, translate, or ask questions with the AI provider and prompts you choose. Download queues, RSS subscriptions, flexible exports, and metadata controls keep the whole workflow in one place.
## 👋🏻 Getting Started
VidBee is currently under active development, and feedback is welcome for any issue encountered.
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## ✨ Features
### 📝 Transcribe locally with the model that fits your computer
Create a transcript from a finished download, or import a local audio or video file. Speech recognition runs on your computer, so the media does not need to be uploaded to a transcription service.
- Choose from local **Whisper**, **SenseVoice**, **Parakeet**, and **Qwen3-ASR** model families. VidBee can recommend a model for your computer and language, and you can download or switch models from Settings.
- Start transcription automatically after a download and set how many transcript jobs may run at once.
- Use source captions when available, or run local speech recognition when you need a new transcript.
- Detect speakers automatically, or set a fixed speaker count and re-label the conversation without changing the recognized words.
- Search spoken text or speaker names, click a timestamp, and continue playback from that exact moment.
- Copy the transcript, export plain text or Markdown, or create a new video with selectable or burned-in captions.
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> **Local transcription, provider-controlled AI.** Speech recognition runs on your computer. When you run an AI prompt, the prompt and transcript content go to the provider you selected. Choose Ollama, LM Studio, or another local endpoint to keep the AI step on your computer too.
### 🧠 Ask AI with the provider and prompts you choose
Run AI prompts against the transcript without leaving VidBee. Built-in prompts can create bullet summaries, clean up grammar, generate FAQs, extract statistics, build mind maps, paraphrase text, or translate the transcript.
- Connect OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, DeepSeek, Groq, Azure, Hugging Face, OpenRouter, xAI, Ollama, or LM Studio.
- Add a custom provider with your own name, Base URL, model ID, and API key, then test the connection before using it.
- Create your own prompts with a title, icon, and instructions. Edit the built-in prompts, test them with a sample transcript, or restore the defaults