Transcription MCP servers

A server here turns speech in audio or video into text, or fetches existing transcripts of videos, podcasts or meetings.

Not here: text to speech and subtitles translation alone.

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335 remote180 localTagged by Odel's AI, which can make mistakes
By GitHub stars, at most two per publisher
  1. Number 1: screenpipe@screenpipe/screenpipe-mcpSearch your local screen recordings, audio transcripts, and computer activity from screenpipe.4% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.Runs on your machine, installed from npm.21,883 GitHub stars.
  2. Number 2: FunASR@modelscope/funasr-mcpTranscribe local audio with FunASR and SenseVoice using private, on-device inference.3% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.Runs on your machine, installed from Docker.20,637 GitHub stars.
  3. Number 3: Claude Real Video@huangchihhungleo/claude-real-videoLet any LLM watch a video locally — and search everything it has ever watched.5% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.Runs on your machine, installed from PyPI.2,209 GitHub stars.

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376 made for this, ranked by starsRemoteLocal
  1. Minutes @silverstein/minutesThe private, owned conversation-memory layer for AI. Record, transcribe, and search every meeting.6% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.Runs on your machine, installed from npm.1,541 GitHub stars.
  2. anymd @sylphxai/anymdAny file → clean Markdown for AI agents: PDF, Office, EPUB, HTML, images, audio/video. Local MCP.3% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.Runs on your machine, installed from npm.1,035 GitHub stars.
  3. PDF Reader MCP @sylphxai-io/pdf-reader-mcpEvidence-first PDF MCP. Agent Document Twin with citeable page+bbox evidence.3% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.Runs on your machine, installed from npm.1,028 GitHub stars.
  4. YouTube Transcript @jkawamoto/mcp-youtube-transcriptAn MCP server retrieving transcripts of YouTube videos4% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.Runs on your machine, installed from MCPB.489 GitHub stars.
  5. Watch Skill @oxbshw/watch-skillWatch video and live sessions, keep timestamped evidence, and verify an agent's own work.7% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.Runs on your machine, installed from PyPI.438 GitHub stars.
  6. SpotifyScraper @aliakhtari78/spotifyscraperPublic Spotify metadata, lyrics and podcasts for LLM agents. No API key, read-only.12% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.Runs on your machine, installed from PyPI.316 GitHub stars.
  7. Watch Cli @sonpiaz/watch-cliHand any social video to your AI agent — frames + transcript bundled. MCP server for watch-cli.5% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.Runs on your machine, installed from npm.253 GitHub stars.
  8. OpenRouter Multimodal @stabgan/openrouter-multimodalChat with 300+ LLMs via OpenRouter. Analyze and generate images, audio, and video from MCP.7% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.Runs on your machine, installed from npm.96 GitHub stars.
  9. OmniSeek @battam1111/omniseekYour agent seeks what search can't find. A self-hosted perception MCP server.7% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.Runs on your machine, installed from PyPI.92 GitHub stars.
  10. Transcripted @r3dbars/transcriptedRead-only search over the meetings, dictations and writing saved by the Transcripted Mac app.Not assessed yet.Runs on your machine, installed from MCPB.75 GitHub stars.
  11. Riverside MCP @servosity/riverside-fm-mcpRiverside API surface as MCP tools.8% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.Runs on your machine, installed from MCPB.47 GitHub stars.
  12. Vidlens @thatsrajan/vidlens-mcpVideo as a queryable local asset for AI agents — 47 tools for YouTube, social, and local media.5% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.Runs on your machine, installed from npm.34 GitHub stars.
  13. Elevenlabs @mcparmory/elevenlabsConvert text to speech, transcribe audio, and dub videos with AI voices8% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.Runs on your machine, installed from PyPI.32 GitHub stars.
  14. Talkthrough @korovin-aa97/talkthrough-mcpLocal MCP server: recordings or public video URLs into transcript, frames, OCR, wall-clock evidence.5% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.Runs on your machine, installed from PyPI.31 GitHub stars.
  15. YouTube Data @kirbah/mcp-youtubeYouTube MCP server for token-optimized, structured data using the YouTube Data API v3.4% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.Runs on your machine, installed from npm.30 GitHub stars.
  16. Bilibili MCP Server @xzxzzx-ai/bilibili-mcpBilibili MCP tool for video metadata, transcripts, subtitles, and comment summarization6% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.Runs on your machine, installed from npm.30 GitHub stars.
  17. YouTube Research MCP @coyasong/youtube-researchCitation-ready YouTube transcript research and optional channel intelligence for AI agents.4% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.Runs on your machine, installed from npm.25 GitHub stars.
  18. RAGStack @hatmanstack/ragstackSearch, chat, upload, and scrape a serverless RAGStack knowledge base on AWS.7% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.Runs on your machine, installed from PyPI.25 GitHub stars.
  19. Gongio @justinbeckwith/gongio-mcpMCP server for Gong.io - access calls, transcripts, and users4% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.Runs on your machine, installed from npm.21 GitHub stars.
  20. Video Transcriber @nhatvu148/video-transcriber-mcpTranscribe videos from 1000+ platforms or local files offline, and search across every transcript5% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.Runs on your machine, installed from cargo.18 GitHub stars.
  21. Boson Video @linboxin/boson-videoLet your AI read any video: timed transcript, full-resolution frames, screen text, claim checks.Not assessed yet.Runs on your machine, installed from PyPI.12 GitHub stars.

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