Your voice stays on your device
Local dictation runs on your computer, with nothing sent to us or anyone else.
Privacy first voice assistant for meeting notes and dictation
Write 3x faster with your voice. Take meeting notes without a bot. Open source and on device, your IT team will love us.
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Without OpenWhispr
#PRODUCTType a message...
With OpenWhispr~150 WPM
#PRODUCTSprint Planning
Recording
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Sarah ChenJL
James LeeMK
Maria KimAC
YouSprint Planning
TranscriptNotesEnhanced
Mar 11, 2026
00:00
AI Chat
Hold ⌥Space to speak
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Cloud is your choice
Choose cloud transcription when you need it; recordings are deleted as soon as transcription finishes.
We don’t train on your words
Your transcriptions aren’t used to train models or improve the product.
GitHub
Open source. Open to inspection.
Check our code and privacy claims on GitHub, under the MIT license.
What you get
Dictation, AI cleanup, offline mode, and 100+ languages.
Your machine. Your models.
Run local speech-to-text models or bring your own API keys. All free.
Whisper Tiny
Fastest75 MB
Whisper Base
Fast142 MB
Whisper Small
Balanced466 MB
Whisper Medium
Accurate1.5 GB
Whisper Turbo
Best1.6 GB
Give instructions by voice.
Say things like 'clean this up' or 'draft an email to Mike' and it does exactly that.
You said
"hey OpenWhispr, clean up this email — I need to tell mike that the meeting is moved to thursday at 3 and also remind him about the deck"
Output
Hi Mike,
Quick heads up — our meeting has been moved to Thursday at 3 PM. Also, just a reminder to have the deck ready.
Thanks!
It learns your words.
Names, jargon, and terms the AI might miss — auto-learned from your corrections.
Add a word or phrase...
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OpenWhisprDr. Smith×gRPC×Kubernetes×Synty×PostgreSQL×
Auto-learns from your corrections
Speak any language.
100+ languages with auto-detection. Switch mid-conversation, we keep up.
🇺🇸English
🇪🇸Español
🇫🇷Français
🇩🇪Deutsch
🇯🇵日本語
🇨🇳中文
🇧🇷Português
🇷🇺Русский
🇰🇷한국어
🇮🇹Italiano
🇸🇦العربية
🇮🇳हिन्दी
🇹🇷Türkçe
🇳🇱Nederlands
🇵🇱Polski
🌐100+ more
Works across all your apps.
ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, Slack, Docs — if it accepts text, it works. See all use cases
Works offline.
No wifi, no problem. OpenWhispr runs offline so you can transcribe anytime, anywhere.
Compliance & certifications
Everything your security team will ask for, already in place. Trust Center
- AICPA SOC 2 Type II
- ISO 27001
- HIPAA
- GDPR
Common questions
Try it for free
Works on macOS, Windows, Linux and iOS. Open source and runs locally.
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What people are saying
My favorite thing on @producthunt today is OpenWhispr. I love @aquavoice_ but really need a local model for when I'm traveling or don't have WiFi. This perfectly solves it. UI and Performance are great.
OpenWhispr is goated
Translated from Japanese
The best voice input solution I've found recently. I was using Aqua Voice before, but this is OSS with the same features and feel — plus you can choose between API-based pay-as-you-go or downloading a local ASR model!
Reading is faster than listening, and speaking is faster than writing. Makes me think the highest throughput person-to-AI mode will be voice to text and reading / evaluating outputs. I'm trying this with OpenWhispr for voice to text.
OpenWhispr is a really good open source alternative for WisprFlow!
Whisper Base local is near instant in OpenWhispr, and I found it better than Parakeet. Parakeet is near instant, too.
I think it's changed the game when you can talk to it and then it can talk back. I'm using OpenWhispr (found on GitHub) with OpenAI Whisper Turbo and it works seamlessly.
Started using OpenWhispr with my local models & hardware, I have to say this is better than typing.
Translated from Japanese
I've gotten tired of the hassle of typing into Claude Code chats, so I tried using OpenWhispr for voice input instead. Even when I stumble and rephrase mid-sentence, the transcription comes out clean and polished, which makes me happy.