Offline Speech-to-Text and Transcription

MLX Audio is a Python library for developers building speech and audio applications on Apple Silicon Macs. It runs models locally using Apple's MLX framework, with support for generated speech, transcription and audio processing.

Subtitle Edit is an offline desktop application for people creating captions or revising subtitle files alongside video. Editing, format conversion and playback run on your computer. Optional translation and speech services send requests to external providers.

llamafile packages a language model and its runtime in a single executable for people who want to run models locally or share a ready-to-run model with others. Recipients don't need to install a separate runtime.

VoxKey is a free, open-source dictation app for people who want to speak into Mac text fields without sending audio to a cloud transcription service. It requires Apple Silicon and macOS 26 or later. Speech recognition runs locally and works offline after you download a model.

noScribe transcribes recorded interviews for qualitative researchers and journalists who need to keep audio on their own computer. It processes recordings locally rather than sending them to a cloud transcription service.

aTrain is an offline transcription app for researchers and people working with recorded interviews. It turns speech into text on your own computer and can label segments by speaker. Recordings and transcripts stay local, so you can process sensitive material without uploading it to a transcription service.

Talk DAT! is a free, open-source dictation app for people who want to turn speech into formatted writing across their desktop apps. It runs on Windows 10 and 11 and Apple silicon Macs with macOS 14 or later. Downloaded models let it work offline without an account, keeping speech and text on your computer.

Minutes is a meeting notetaker for people who want searchable records of calls, voice memos and everyday dictation on their own computer. You can read the notes in the app or let an AI assistant search the conversations you choose to share.

FunASR is a speech-to-text toolkit for developers building transcription services and voice applications. It supports offline recordings and live speech on local hardware or self-hosted servers, with capabilities that depend on the model and runtime.

Audapolis is an editor for recordings where spoken words are the main material. Podcast producers, radio editors and people cutting interviews can work with a transcript through an interface similar to a word processor.

Wyoming Faster Whisper converts speech to text on your own hardware for Home Assistant and other Wyoming-compatible clients. It's for home voice systems that need local transcription and better recognition of household names.

Sokuji translates speech for people taking part in meetings across languages. Other participants hear your translated voice as ordinary call audio, so they don't need to install anything.

Dictivo is a desktop dictation app for people who want to write emails, notes and AI prompts by speaking. It processes speech on your computer by default, so you can use local dictation for sensitive drafts and client notes.

Superwhisper turns spoken words into text in the app you're using. It suits people who prefer dictating messages, documents or requests to coding assistants over typing them.

Aiko turns recorded meetings, lectures and voice memos into text for people who want to keep their audio on their own device. It processes completed recordings rather than live speech and doesn't identify individual speakers.

local-transcriber is a free, open-source app for turning audio and video recordings into text on your own computer. It's aimed at people handling private interviews, client calls or long talks who want transcription without uploading recordings to a cloud service. It runs fully offline once the required models are downloaded.

MacParakeet is a speech-to-text app for people who want to dictate across Mac apps, transcribe recordings and capture meetings while keeping speech recognition on their own hardware.

HotClip turns long recordings into short vertical videos for creators editing livestreams, podcasts, courses and spoken presentations. It suggests highlights with reasons and scores, so you can review the selections before exporting.

TeroSubtitler helps subtitlers, translators and video creators prepare captions for video content and streaming services. It combines automatic audio transcription with tools for editing text, adjusting timing and checking subtitle quality.

pyVideoTrans translates spoken video into another language for people preparing subtitles and dubbed versions. It works from the audio, so footage doesn't need existing subtitles.

Quill records meetings and creates transcripts on your Mac. It's for people who want to keep both the call audio and the resulting text on their own machine.

Hold Speak is a macOS menu bar app for people who want to dictate prompts to AI agents or enter text in other apps. It runs Whisper locally on your GPU through WhisperKit and CoreML, so local transcription works offline and keeps speech on your Mac. Push-to-talk dictation inserts the transcript into the focused text field.

Amical is an AI dictation app for people who want to write emails, messages and coding prompts by speaking. It adjusts the resulting text to the app you're using, reducing the editing needed after transcription.

Wispuh is an MIT-licensed speech-to-text app for macOS 14 and later that puts dictated text into the app you're working in. It's for Mac users who want voice input across their everyday software without sending recordings to a cloud service. It doesn't require an account.

Lemonade is a local AI server for people who want to chat with models on their own hardware or use them in apps and agents. It includes a built-in interface for direct use and APIs for connecting other software.

MOSS-Music is a local AI model for people who need to describe, transcribe, or analyze recorded music. It works with full tracks and combines sung lyrics with musical details in its responses.

Pocket AI Lab runs AI models on an iPhone and helps you judge which ones the phone can handle. It's for people who want private chat on their device and want to check memory and storage before downloading model weights.

ServiceStack AI Server is a self-hosted gateway for developers and teams whose applications use several AI providers. It runs in a Docker container and gives apps one API integration for local models, cloud LLMs and media processing. Teams can change providers without changing their client integrations.

Utter is a proprietary dictation app for macOS that transcribes speech with local Whisper models. It's for people who want to speak into everyday apps or coding tools while keeping their audio on their own computer. Transcription runs on your Mac, and no audio leaves the device.

Note Companion is an AI plugin for Obsidian users who need to sort collected notes and turn recordings into searchable material. It suits researchers, students and people with a backlog of meeting notes.

Vexa is a meeting bot and transcription API for developers adding meeting features to products and teams connecting calls to AI agents. Its bots join Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and Zoom to capture the conversation.

TalkToPaste is a voice dictation utility for macOS and Windows that runs speech recognition on your computer. The official site links to the VoiceToClipboard repository, which documents the local implementation and installation scripts. Transcription works offline after the speech model has been downloaded.

Open Wispr is a voice dictation tool for people who want to speak into Mac apps while keeping audio and text on their computer. It inserts transcribed speech at the cursor in editors, browsers, terminals, email and other applications.

Fisper is a voice-to-text app for Apple Silicon Macs that puts dictated text into the app you're using. It runs Whisper locally and works offline after the initial model download. It's for people who want to dictate in everyday apps or talk to terminal-based AI agents without sending their audio to a cloud service.