Get started on Windows

Scribe0 for Windows is a native desktop app. Transcription runs on your PC: consult audio is never uploaded.

Requirements

• Windows 10 (version 2004) or Windows 11, 64-bit
• ~1 GB free disk space (app + speech model)
• An internet connection for the one-time model download and for the optional note-enhancement step

Install

Two ways to install; pick either.

From the Microsoft Store (simplest): install Scribe0 on the Microsoft Store. The Store build is signed by Microsoft, so there is no SmartScreen warning, and updates arrive through the Store.

Direct download:

1. Download Scribe0-Setup.exe.
2. Run it. Windows SmartScreen may show “Windows protected your PC”. This is expected: the direct installer isn’t code-signed, unlike the Store build. Click More info → Run anyway. (You can verify the download against its SHA-256 checksum.)
3. The app installs per-user (no administrator rights needed) and opens automatically, with shortcuts on the Desktop and Start menu.

On first launch, Scribe0 downloads the Parakeet speech model (~631 MB) into %LOCALAPPDATA%\Scribe0\models. This happens once; after that, transcription works fully offline.

Older or low-power PC?

A smaller, faster speech model (~126 MB) is available in Settings → Transcription. The app will recommend it automatically if it detects transcription struggling to keep up.

Your first note

1. On the Workbench tab, press Record (Ctrl+R) and speak. With live transcription on (the default), text appears as you talk.
2. Press Record again to stop.
3. Pick a prompt from the dropdown and press Enhance (Ctrl+E) to draft a structured note. The note streams into the pane as it generates and renders with headings and lists.
4. Copy (Ctrl+Shift+C) the result into your EMR or letter.

Every recording and enhanced version is saved locally. Find them on the History tab.

Updates

The app updates itself: new versions download in the background as a small delta and apply the next time you close and reopen Scribe0. Check the current status any time in Settings → About → Updates.

Where your data lives

Everything stays on your PC, per-user:

What	Where
Transcripts & notes	%APPDATA%\Scribe0\scribe0.db (SQLite)
Speech models	%LOCALAPPDATA%\Scribe0\models
Recordings (WAV)	Documents\Scribe0
Logs	%LOCALAPPDATA%\Scribe0\logs

The only step that can leave your PC is the optional Enhance step, and you choose whether it does. Pick On-device in Settings → LLM and the note is drafted by a local model on your graphics card, so nothing leaves the machine at all (this needs a Vulkan-capable card; Scribe0 tests yours and tells you if it cannot run it). Otherwise Enhance sends the transcript text, never the audio, to a cloud model, by default via an Australian-sovereign Amazon Bedrock endpoint. See Privacy & data handling.