Locating the engine…

Checking whether the local Whisper model is reachable.
Engine is back — open Verbatim

What just happened?

Verbatim doesn't run on a cloud server — the Whisper model runs on Akash's Mac, and this website reaches it through an encrypted tunnel. When the Mac is asleep or its connection blips, the engine briefly can't be located. It reconnects on its own; this page keeps checking every few seconds and will tell you the moment it's back.

your browser  ↓ HTTPS — transcribe.akash.link VPS (Traefik) — TLS + forwarding only  ↓ reverse SSH tunnel Akash's Mac — yt-dlp · whisper.cpp · large-v3-turbo · Apple M1 (Metal)

How to bring it back

  1. 1Wake the Mac. Open the lid or press a key — the engine only runs while the Mac is awake.
  2. 2Wait ~30 seconds. The tunnel reconnects automatically; you don't need to touch anything.
  3. 3This page flips to green the moment the engine answers again, and gives you a button back to the app.

Still offline after a few minutes?

Run these on the Mac to bounce the service and tunnel:

launchctl kickstart -k gui/$(id -u)/com.akash.transcribe launchctl kickstart -k gui/$(id -u)/com.akash.transcribe-tunnel

Logs live at ~/Code/yt-transcribe/web/server.log and tunnel.log next to it. Full documentation: ~/Code/yt-transcribe/README.md.

First-time setup (fresh Mac)

Rebuilding Verbatim from scratch

Install the toolchain and model:

brew install yt-dlp whisper-cpp mkdir -p ~/Code/yt-transcribe/models && cd ~/Code/yt-transcribe/models
curl -LO https://huggingface.co/ggerganov/whisper.cpp/resolve/main/ggml-large-v3-turbo-q5_0.bin

Then re-clone ~/Code/yt-transcribe/web, reinstall the two LaunchAgents (com.akash.transcribe, com.akash.transcribe-tunnel), and restore /docker/traefik/dynamic/transcribe.yml on the VPS. The README in the project folder documents the full architecture.