CJ Pais released transcribe.cpp, a local speech-to-text implementation in the llama.cpp/whisper.cpp lineage, which reached 603 points and 130 comments — the highest-engagement developer tool item in today's scan by a wide margin. The sustained appetite for local, dependency-light C++ inference tooling continues even as hosted transcription APIs get cheaper. Practical use case: on-device meeting transcription without shipping audio to a vendor.