Offline Speech-to-Text and Transcription

Murmure turns speech into text on your computer for people dictating notes, documents or code who want to keep recordings off cloud transcription services. It uses NVIDIA Parakeet and works offline without an account.

LLPlayer is a media player for language learners who study through video and audio. It pairs playback with tools for reading dialogue, checking unfamiliar words and revisiting scenes.

Xinference serves AI models on your own computer or servers for developers and researchers building applications around models they control. It brings chat, document search and media generation into one platform.

Speakr is a self-hosted transcription and note-taking app for people who need to revisit meetings, interviews or lectures. It pairs recordings with searchable transcripts and AI summaries.

WhisperWriter turns microphone speech into typed text in your active window. It's for people who want dictation in their desktop apps, with a choice of transcription on their own computer or through an API.

WhisperJAV generates subtitles for Japanese adult videos on your own computer. It targets difficult audio with quiet dialogue, loud vocalisations and long stretches that can cause speech recognition models to invent or repeat words.

sherpa-onnx is a toolkit for developers building speech features that work offline on their own devices. It covers transcription, speech generation and audio analysis, with processing kept local.

Yap is a voice dictation app for people who prefer speaking to typing emails, messages or prompts on their Mac. It transcribes speech on-device and inserts the result into the text field you're using.

Scrieb transcribes recordings and meetings for people who need to keep sensitive conversations on their own computer. Speech recognition, summaries and meeting chat all work locally, with no cloud processing option.

Whisper Local is a free, MIT-licensed dictation app for Windows and macOS, aimed at people who want voice typing without cloud processing. It's an alternative to Wispr Flow and Dragon that inserts speech into the active text field, including in chat apps, browsers and code editors. It doesn't require an account or API key.

RTranslator helps people hold spoken conversations in different languages using their Android phones. It runs translation locally and works offline.

Speaches is a self-hosted speech server for developers building transcription services and voice applications. Its OpenAI-compatible API lets existing clients and SDKs work with speech models running on hardware you control.

LocalScribe records online meetings and turns them into timestamped transcripts on your PC. It's for people who need private meeting records they can review and correct while retaining the original text and audio.

WhisprStream turns speech into text at your cursor in other Mac apps. It's for people who dictate notes, email, or coding prompts and want speech processing to stay on their own computer.

CTranslate2 is an inference library for developers who want to run Transformer models on their own hardware or servers. It focuses on reducing execution time and memory use for applications built in C++ or Python.

WhisperIME converts speech to text on Android for people who want offline dictation in their keyboard or a standalone transcription app. It uses Whisper for recognition on the device.

JesType is a paid dictation app for people who want to write emails, documents, and other text by speaking while keeping their audio on their own computer. It runs on Apple Silicon Macs with macOS 13.4 or later and 64-bit Windows PCs running Windows 10 or later. Intel Macs aren't supported.

Memo AI turns audio and video into transcripts, translated subtitles and notes for people reviewing interviews, meetings or podcasts. Speech recognition works offline, and speaker identification runs locally.

OpenWhispr is a dictation and meeting transcription app for people who want to write by voice and keep searchable records of conversations. It lets you choose local processing or cloud providers.

Handy is a desktop speech-to-text app for people who want to dictate into the apps they already use. It transcribes speech on your computer and inserts the text into the active text field.

fcitx5-vinput adds voice typing to Fcitx5 on Linux. It's for people who want to dictate text and use spoken instructions to edit it, with a choice between local speech recognition and cloud services.

WhisperBuddy is a native macOS app for people who need transcripts, subtitles, or voice dictation while keeping their recordings on their own computer. It transcribes audio and video files, listens to live input, and translates transcripts offline. Audio and text stay on your Mac.

SpeakUp is a dictation app for people who want to write by voice on a Mac. It's suited to confidential notes, everyday writing and reducing typing because of RSI or accessibility needs.

Nextcloud Assistant brings AI tasks into Nextcloud Hub for teams working with shared files, email and conversations. It lets an organization choose local processing on its own server or a hosted model provider.

WeNet is a speech recognition toolkit for developers adding transcription to applications or services. It covers model training and production deployment, so teams can adapt a recognizer to their audio or start with a pretrained model.

Whisperian is an Android speech-to-text app for people who'd rather dictate than type, including writers, engineers and people handling everyday correspondence. It supports offline transcription as well as cloud services, and gives users configurable workflows as an alternative to WisprFlow or Superwhisper.

VideoLingo is a video translation app for creators and educators producing bilingual subtitles or dubbed videos. Its self-hosted browser interface brings transcription, translation and subtitle preparation into one workflow, though the selected providers determine which processing stays local.

AudioToText turns recordings into text and captions for people who need transcripts or subtitles in different languages. It can process audio on your computer with Whisper or use cloud processing.

Argmax OSS Swift is a speech AI SDK for developers building iOS and macOS apps that process audio on the user's device. Its separate libraries cover transcription, identifying speakers and generating spoken audio.

Buzz turns speech into transcripts and subtitles on your computer. It's for people working with recordings or providing live captions who want offline transcription and translation into English.

Transcribe Offline turns recordings and live speech into text for people who need to review conversations without uploading audio to a cloud service. It pairs transcript editing with audio playback in a desktop app.

SnapOtter is a self-hosted application for people and teams who need to edit or convert private files without uploading them to an online processing service. It combines media, document and local AI tools in a browser interface.

Natively is a desktop assistant for people who want suggested answers during meetings or interviews and searchable notes afterward. It works with Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams without adding a bot to the call.

SpeakoFlow lets you dictate into other apps and ask an AI assistant for help without leaving your work. It's for people who want voice typing, spoken conversations and meeting notes with processing on their own computer.