A side-by-side look at the Whipscribe MCP and Transkriba — Russian audio transcription MCP servers: transport, auth, tools, quality signals, and the config to install either one in Claude, Cursor, Windsurf or VS Code.
Verdict: choose Whipscribe MCP for speech-to-text work as a local process; choose Transkriba — Russian audio transcription for speech-to-text over a hosted endpoint. You can also run both side by side in one mcpServers block.
Rows where the two servers differ are marked.
| Spec | W Whipscribe MCP | T Transkriba — Russian audio transcription |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Speech-to-Text | Speech-to-Text |
| Quality signal | 40/100 · Fair | 38/100 · Fair |
| Install command | Confirmed | Confirmed |
| Transport | Local subprocess (stdio) | Remote HTTP/SSE |
| Auth | Not declared | Not declared |
| Pricing | Not declared | Not declared |
| Required env vars | None listed | None listed |
| Verified owner | Community listing | Community listing |
| GitHub stars | 1 | — |
| Directory activity | 0 views 0 installs 0 upvotes | 0 views 0 installs 0 upvotes |
| Tools | Not listed | Not listed |
| Full listing | View Whipscribe MCP | View Transkriba — Russian audio transcription |
No tool names declared yet. Check the project README from the listing page.
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Paste either block (or both) into your client config, e.g. claude_desktop_config.json or ~/.cursor/mcp.json. We only show a config when the install command is confirmed.
{
"mcpServers": {
"whipscribe-mcp": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": [
"whipscribe-mcp"
]
}
}
}
{
"mcpServers": {
"transkriba-russian-audio-transcription": {
"url": "https://transkriba.ru/mcp?utm_source=mcp_registry&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=remote_server"
}
}
}