# babelscribe (pypi · babelscribe)

Offline speech-to-text and SRT subtitles in 99 languages on your own AMD/NVIDIA/Intel/Apple GPU.

- Trust score: 71/100 (medium)
- Change this week: +4
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-10-23

## Components

- pypi · `babelscribe`: 71/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/phonology024-babelscribe/babelscribe.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/phonology024-babelscribe/babelscribe)

## Channel facts

- Registry: `pypi`
- Package: `babelscribe`
- Version: `0.3.2`
- Transport: `stdio`

## Trust breakdown

How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically from public evidence about the published package, including repeated runs of it in an isolated sandbox, and we only credit what we can confirm. Scores are 0–100 per category. Scoring method: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring (what has changed: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring/changelog)

Scored 2026-10-23.

- **Supply Chain Security**: 100/100
  - No malware found by supply-chain analysis.
  - No known CVEs affecting this package version or its production dependencies.
  - Runs setuptools.build_meta at install time, a recognised build step with no custom scripting around it.
  - 1 of 29 dependencies flagged as unhealthy.
- **Provenance & Transparency**: 45/100
  - Source repository is publicly reachable at the declared URL.
  - Provenance check failed: no build-provenance attestation is published.
  - Clear OSI-approved license (MIT).
  - Actively maintained (last published 16 days ago).
  - Disclosure check failed: no security disclosure policy was found in the source repository.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 68/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (good).
  - Tool/resource definitions use about 443 tokens (~110/item across 4 items; 4 tools + 0 resources), lean.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 30/100
  - Stability observed for 9 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **Tool Coverage**: 71/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 0% of tool parameters carry a description.
  - Structured output schemas are declared (25% of tools); any adoption earns full credit.
- **Tool Safety**: 100/100
  - No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.
  - We read all 4 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 5 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.
- **Capabilities**: 100/100
  - Implements a current MCP spec version (2026-07-28).

## Install

### How do I install the babelscribe MCP server?

babelscribe runs locally as a PyPI package, launched with uvx babelscribe. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.

### Claude

```bash
claude mcp add phonology024-babelscribe -- uvx babelscribe
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "phonology024-babelscribe": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "babelscribe"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "phonology024-babelscribe": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "babelscribe"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```bash
codex mcp add phonology024-babelscribe -- uvx babelscribe
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "phonology024-babelscribe": {
      "type": "local",
      "command": [
        "uvx",
        "babelscribe"
      ],
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add phonology024-babelscribe --command uvx --arg babelscribe
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  phonology024-babelscribe:
    command: "uvx"
    args: ["babelscribe"]
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "phonology024-babelscribe": {
      "Transport": "stdio",
      "Command": "uvx",
      "Arguments": [
        "babelscribe"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add phonology024-babelscribe -t stdio -c uvx -a babelscribe
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "phonology024-babelscribe": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "babelscribe"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

## Changelog

Every change recorded for this component, newest first. Days that predate change tracking, or that we cannot explain, say so: "we were watching and nothing happened" and "we were not watching" are different claims.

### 2026-10-23 (score 71, +4)

- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.30

### 2026-10-14 (score 67, +28)

- [security improvement] Injection markers: unverified → pass
- [security] First check of Judged manipulation: pass
- [security] Stability: Stability not yet verified: not enough scan history yet (needs a 30-day window).
- [functional improvement] Tool coverage: unverified → 100
- [functional improvement] MCP protocol: unverified → pass
- [functional] First check of Schema quality: fail
- [functional] First check of Tool coverage: 0
- [functional] First check of Destructive annotations: pass
- [functional] First check of Schema quality: pass
- [functional] First check of Schema quality: good
- [functional] First check of Tool coverage: 25

### 2026-10-12 (score 39)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (4)

### `transcribe` (~185 tokens)

Transcribe audio/video to subtitles

Transcribe a local audio or video file into subtitles / text.

file_path: absolute path to the media file (mp4, mkv, mov, mp3, wav, m4a, ...).
language: ISO code such as en, th, ja, es, hi — or "auto" to detect.
accurate: slower, fewest errors (large-v3 with beam search, or the best fine-tune for Thai / Hindi).
formats: comma list from srt, vtt, txt, json.
output_dir: folder for the output files; empty = next to the media file.
Returns the files written, detected language, device used, and the transcript text.

Input parameters:

- `accurate` (boolean)
- `file_path` (string, required)
- `formats` (string)
- `language` (string)
- `output_dir` (string)

### `find_media` (~75 tokens)

Find audio/video files

Find audio/video files on this computer, newest first. Searches Downloads, Videos, Desktop, Music and
Documents (two levels deep) unless folder is given. Use it when the user names a file without a full path.

Input parameters:

- `folder` (string)
- `limit` (integer)
- `name_contains` (string)

Output parameters:

- `result` (array)

### `list_devices` (~24 tokens)

List GPUs

GPUs whisper.cpp can use on this computer and which one babelscribe picks automatically.

### `list_languages_and_models` (~23 tokens)

List languages and models

Models available, and which model --accurate uses per language.

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: Provenance, Install scripts, Dependencies. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/phonology024-babelscribe/babelscribe#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-10-23: 71
- 2026-10-22: 67
- 2026-10-21: 67
- 2026-10-20: 67
- 2026-10-19: 67
- 2026-10-18: 67
- 2026-10-17: 67
- 2026-10-16: 67
- 2026-10-15: 67
- 2026-10-14: 67
- 2026-10-13: 39
- 2026-10-12: 39

## Common questions

### What is the babelscribe MCP server?

babelscribe is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.phonology024/babelscribe. Offline speech-to-text and SRT subtitles in 99 languages on your own AMD/NVIDIA/Intel/Apple GPU. This page covers its PyPI package (babelscribe).

### Is the babelscribe MCP server safe to use?

babelscribe scores 71 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. We found no known CVEs affecting it as of 23 October 2026. That is a record of what we were able to check automatically, not an endorsement. The category breakdown on this page shows every signal behind the number, including the ones we could not confirm.

### What tools does the babelscribe MCP server expose?

babelscribe exposes 4 tools: transcribe, find_media, list_devices, list_languages_and_models. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 307 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Is the babelscribe MCP server still maintained?

babelscribe is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 23 October 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.

### What licence is the babelscribe MCP server under?

babelscribe declares the MIT licence, which is OSI-approved. That covers the source only, and says nothing about the cost of any service it calls.

## Links

- PyPI project: https://pypi.org/project/babelscribe/
- Socket report: https://socket.dev/pypi/package/babelscribe
- Repository: https://github.com/phonology024/babelscribe
- Website: https://phonology024.github.io/babelscribe/
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/phonology024-babelscribe/babelscribe.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/phonology024-babelscribe/babelscribe.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/phonology024-babelscribe/babelscribe