chough

use chough for fast, CPU-only transcription of audio or video. it supports plain text, timestamped JSON, and WebVTT subtitles.

install

• Arch Linux: paru -S chough-bin
• macOS: brew install --cask hyperpuncher/tap/chough
• Windows: winget install chough
• source: go install github.com/hyperpuncher/chough/cmd/chough@latest

ffmpeg is required. the first run downloads the roughly 650 MB model into the operating system's user cache under chough/models/<model-name>.

common usage

flags must appear before the input file.