Privacy Policy

babelscribe runs entirely on your own computer. Last updated 2026-10-06.

Data collection: none. babelscribe has no telemetry, analytics, accounts or crash reporting, and never uploads your audio, video, transcripts or file names anywhere.
What it processes and where: the media file you choose is converted and transcribed locally; subtitles and text are written to your disk (next to the file, or the folder you choose). Through MCP, the transcript text is returned to the AI app that called the tool — what that app does with it is governed by that app's own privacy policy.
Network access (downloads only): on first use it downloads the whisper-cli program from this project's GitHub releases, speech models from Hugging Face (huggingface.co/ggerganov/whisper.cpp, and for --accurate Thai/Hindi the fine-tune's own repository), and Python packages from PyPI when installed with pip/uv. These are plain downloads; no personal data is sent. GitHub, Hugging Face and PyPI see a normal download request (IP address, user agent) under their own privacy policies.
Storage and retention: downloaded programs and models are cached in ~/.babelscribe (or BABELSCRIBE_HOME / BABELSCRIBE_MODELS) until you delete that folder. Outputs stay wherever they were written until you delete them. babelscribe keeps no other data.
Third-party sharing: none.
Contact: open an issue at https://github.com/phonology024/babelscribe/issues