How to Enable GPU Acceleration for Faster Transcription

ScribeForge transcribes on CPU by default, and that's genuinely enough for most files and model sizes. If you regularly transcribe long recordings or use the larger, more accurate Whisper models, turning on GPU acceleration can meaningfully cut processing time.

Turning it on

1. Open Settings → General.
2. Find the GPU acceleration toggle and turn it on.
3. ScribeForge uses Metal on macOS or Vulkan on Windows, depending on your platform — there's nothing else to configure.

Do you need it?

Not necessarily. GPU acceleration mainly helps when:

• You're using the medium or large Whisper models regularly
• You transcribe long files (multi-hour recordings) often
• You want faster turnaround on batch jobs with many files queued

If you mostly transcribe short clips with the small model or below, CPU-only performance is usually fast enough that GPU acceleration won't feel necessary.

Other ways to speed things up

Alongside GPU acceleration, you can adjust CPU threads in Settings → General to use more of your processor's cores for inference — useful on multi-core machines even without a GPU.