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Scribe: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Scribe is a free transcription service that turns audio and video files into text. You upload a file or paste a link from platforms such as PeerTube, YouTube or Vimeo, choose French, English or Spanish and receive the result by email. It can also be used to produce subtitles. The service is based on Vosk-server from Alpha Cephei and is offered as a web service.

Scribe was developed by Ceméa, a French popular-education association. The service runs on a dedicated server at OVH; the country of the data centre is not published, so ask the operator. The source code is under the AGPL-3.0, so you can install your own Scribe; Ceméa offers help with that. The only personal data the service processes is the email address, and it publishes a GDPR notice about it.

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Sovereignty score
94 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-2100
    Headquartered in the EU: European law applies
  • Data residency SOV-3100
    EU-only hosting
  • Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-390
    Self-hostable: encryption keys under your own control
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-680
    Open source: low switching costs
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-6100
    Source code auditable, forkable and self-hostable

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked October 14, 2026
Headquarters
FR (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model
Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
EUVerified by hand
Open-source
YesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
Category
AI
Type
Product
Website
scribe.cemea.org ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Scribe

The European alternatives to Scribe come from our knowledge base of over 8,400 vendors. We only list vendors headquartered in the EU or the EEA; fully European-owned vendors rank before vendors with a foreign owner. For each alternative you see the country, the open-source status and a short description.

Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with Scribe

Scribe is headquartered in FR and therefore falls under European law: the GDPR, NIS2 and the Data Act. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data.

Data is hosted exclusively in the EU, so Scribe scores best on data residency.

Scribe is open source. You can audit the source code, self-host the software and keep the encryption keys under your own control. Switching is easier because data and software are not tied to a single party.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs Scribe together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to Scribe?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Scribe include Acapela Group, Aleph Alpha and Allinga TTS. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Scribe?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Scribe include Apertus. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

Is Scribe GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Scribe is headquartered in FR (EU) and hosts data in EU. It is also open-source, so you can self-host it. That makes Scribe an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

Details and sources

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Sources

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Compliance evidence

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Digital sovereignty in AI

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