







A ready-to-use, minimal app that converts any speech into text.
Launching a free, open-source, on-device transcription app
TL;DR – Please try Moonshine Note Taker on your Mac! For years I’ve been telling people that AI wants to be local, that on-device models aren’t just a poor man’s alternative…

Introducing Whisper – an open source voice note taking app! Record voice notes and transcribe them into lists, blogs, & more with AI. 100% free & open source. https://t.co/UZWGkUDJ6d
Introducing Whisper – an open source voice note taking app!Record voice notes and transcribe them into lists, blogs, & more with AI.100% free & open source. pic.twitter.com/UZWGkUDJ6d— Hassan (@nutlope) July 22, 2025
\robotoslablightdots.tts Technical Report
Text-to-speech (TTS) systems have largely solved intelligibility on standard read-speech benchmarks. What users expect from a modern system is broader: expressive and controllable output, real-time synthesis, and coverage of neutral reading, emotional dialogue, paralinguistic events, singing, and general audio. Current systems pursue this goal along three roughly distinct technical routes, and each route has its own unresolved problem.
Hex: local voice dictation
Private, local voice dictation. Hold the shortcut, speak, and release.

Handy
Handy is a cross platform, open-source, speech-to-text application for your computer

Ming-3.0-tts
Open-weights speech generation for audio stories, short-video narration and product assistants.

Announcing transcribe.cpp
Meet transcribe.cpp, a new open-source C/C++ speech-to-text inference library with portable, GPU-accelerated support for multiple STT models. Developed through Mozilla.ai's Builders in Residence program, it makes adding fast, local transcription to applications easier than ever.

TypeWhisper for macOS, Windows, and iOS - Private Speech-to-Text
TypeWhisper connects private speech-to-text with system-wide dictation, files, workflows, and automation. macOS 1.6 and Windows 1.0.8 are stable; the public iOS 1.0 release is still being prepared for the App Store.

Superwhisper — AI Voice to Text for macOS, Windows & iOS
AI powered voice to text for macOS, Windows, and iOS. Dictate in any app with offline and cloud speech recognition, 100+ languages, and custom AI modes.
OpenAI.fm
An interactive demo for developers to try the latest text-to-speech model in the OpenAI API

talat - the local transcription app for meetings, dictation, and recordings
talat is the local transcription app for meetings, dictation, and recordings: an AI note-taker that captures both sides of every conversation and transcribes in real time, entirely on your own computer. Nothing you say is ever uploaded.

BetterWispr: local dictation for macOS
Hold a shortcut, speak, and BetterWispr types clean text into any Mac app. Local speech models, a style for each app, meeting notes and insights. Free and open source, with no account required.


make ai speak computer by dottxt @ Nouscon 2024
Introducing **transcribe.cpp** 🎙️ A new open-source C/C++ speech-to-text inference library for fast, local transcription. ✅ Multiple GGUF STT models ✅ GPU acceleration (Metal, Vulkan & CUDA) ✅ Portable across platforms Built through @mozilla.ai's BiR program. Blog: blog.mozilla.ai/announcing-transcribe-cpp/
Announcing transcribe.cpp
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