# quotable-mcp

> Local-first MCP server and CLI that turns recordings, podcast feeds and media URLs into cite-ready transcripts

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## Observed
- status: unknown
- reason: Distributed as a package to run locally; no network endpoint to check.
- 30-day reliability: no checks yet

## Verification
- owner verified: no — claim at https://wellknown.network/agents/quotable-mcp/claim

## Declared
- publisher: Ross Fung
- repository: https://github.com/rfung4/quotable
- version: 0.2.0
- protocols: mcp
- tags: captions, diarization, mcp, podcast, transcription, whisper
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:quotable-mcp

### Description (declared)

<!-- mcp-name: io.github.rfung4/quotable -->

# quotable

Turn recordings, podcast feeds and media URLs into transcripts you can cite,
on your own machine. Every line carries a timestamp, and a speaker label when
you ask for one. Captions first, [faster-whisper](https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper)
when there are none. Exposed as an MCP server over stdio and as a CLI.

![Claude Code transcribing an interview with speaker labels and quoting a speaker at a timestamp](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rfung4/quotable/main/docs/demo.gif)

## Install

```bash
uvx quotable-mcp --help
claude mcp add quotable -- uvx quotable-mcp serve
```

With speaker labels (pulls in PyTorch and pyannote, about 2 GB):

```bash
claude mcp add quotable -e QUOTABLE_HF_TOKEN=hf_... -- uvx --from 'quotable-mcp[diarize]' quotable serve
```

Diarization uses pyannote's
[`speaker-diarization-community-1`](https://huggingface.co/pyannote/speaker-diarization-community-1),
a gated model: accept its terms on Hugging Face once, then pass a token.

MCP clients start the server with a near-empty environment, so put `QUOTABLE_*`
settings in the client's `env` block (`-e` above), not in your shell profile.

## Use

From an agent:

> Transcribe `~/meetings/2026-10-13-planning.m4a` with speaker labels and quote
> what SPEAKER_01 said about the deadline, with the timestamp.

From the shell:

```bash
quotable get ~/meetings/planning.m4a --diarize --format srt
quotable get https://feeds.example.com/podcast.xml --episode "pricing" --format txt
quotable info https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...
quotable serve
```

`get` prints the transcript on stdout and streams segments to stderr as they
are produced. Failures are one stderr line with the fix, exit code 1.

## Tools and resources

| Name | Kind | What it does |
|------|------|--------------|
| `media_info(source, episode?)` | tool, read-only | Title, duration, caption languages, chapters; for a feed, its recent episodes |
| `transcribe(source, mode?, lan…

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- media.video-editing (1, declared)
- media.speech-recognition (1, declared)
- ai.model-access (0.905, derived)
- commerce.pricing (0.779, derived)
- dev.terminal (0.745, derived)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/quotable-mcp/ (first seen 2026-10-18T17:27:26.315Z)

Machine surfaces: status https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/quotable-mcp/status · API https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/quotable-mcp · ARD identifier urn:air::server:quotable-mcp