turantekin/Parrot

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…

Scribe — Meeting notes that never leave your Mac

Scribe records, transcribes and summarises your meetings on your Mac. Free and open source.

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.

VoiceInk - Advanced AI Voice Recognition for Mac

Transform Your Voice Into Text Instantly with Offline AI. Built for Mac, Optimized for Privacy. One-Time Purchase, No Subscriptions.

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.

Razberry on Twitter / X

introducing Oat - a tiny meeting recorder for your macnotetakers like granola are overkill. i wanted something to record & transcribe meetings locally, and then save a markdown file to my machine so Claude/Codex can do the rest. no signups & free. bring your own agent… pic.twitter.com/lDlFlZeDcp— Razberry (@RazberryChai) September 3, 2026

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.

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

Arthur-Ficial/apfel

The free AI already on your Mac. CLI tool, OpenAI-compatible server, and interactive chat — all on-device via Apple Intelligence. No API keys, no cloud, no downloads.

Kap

An open-source screen recorder built with web technology

Realtime and audio | OpenAI API

Learn which realtime and audio guide to use for each speech application.

MacPaw Partners with Liquid AI to Bring On-Device AI to Millions of Mac Users — Blog

MacPaw partners with Liquid AI to bring private, fast, on-device AI to millions of Mac users, starting with the Eney assistant for macOS.

ICML WhisperKit: On-device Real-time ASR with Billion-Scale Transformers

Real-time Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) is a fundamental building block for many commercial applications of ML, including live captioning, dictation, meeting transcriptions, and medical scribes. Accuracy and latency are the most important factors when companies select a system to deploy. We present WhisperKit, an optimized on-device inference system for real-time ASR that significantly outperforms leading cloud-based systems. We benchmark against server-side systems that deploy a diverse set of models, including a frontier model (OpenAI gpt-4o-transcribe), a proprietary model (Deepgram nova-3), and an open-source model (Fireworks large-v3-turbo).Our results show that WhisperKit matches the lowest latency at 0.46s while achieving the highest accuracy 2.2\% WER. The optimizations behind the WhisperKit system are described in detail in this paper.

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.