Offline AI Translation Tools

Scribr is an Android app for turning speech into text as you speak. It's aimed at people who want to capture meetings, record ideas or write notes without typing.

PaddleSpeech is a speech and audio toolkit for developers and researchers building applications on their own machines or servers. Built on PaddlePaddle, it supports pretrained models alongside training and evaluation workflows.

Seamless Communication is Meta's family of AI models for developers and researchers building multilingual speech applications. It covers translation and transcription, with dedicated models for conversations and expressive speech.

TrendRadar collects news and trending topics for people tracking public opinion, industry developments, or specific interests. It brings feeds and platform rankings into one place so you can follow relevant stories without checking each site separately.

WhisperLiveKit is a self-hosted speech-to-text server for meeting transcripts, live captions and apps that need speech recognition as people talk. It processes audio on your own machine or server.

IndicTrans2 is a family of translation models for developers building multilingual applications and researchers working on Indian languages. It covers all 22 scheduled languages of India, including languages with limited training data.

MacWhisper turns recordings into editable transcripts for people working with interviews, lectures, podcasts and meetings. Local transcription works offline and keeps the audio on your Mac.

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.

LocalVocal turns speech into live captions inside OBS for streamers and people recording video. It processes speech on your computer, so transcription can work offline without sending audio to a cloud service.

NativeMind is a local ChatGPT alternative for people who want AI help with reading and writing inside their browser. It processes prompts and page content on your device using local models.

WhisperSubTranslate is a free desktop app for creating translated SRT subtitles from video speech. It's for people who want to subtitle videos on their own computer, with offline transcription and translation after downloading the models.

ThunderAI is an AI email assistant for Thunderbird users who want help writing messages and managing their inbox. You can process email text with a local model or send it to a cloud provider.

TranscriptionSuite is a speech-to-text app for people recording lectures, transcribing conversations or dictating documents on their own hardware. Transcription works offline after the app and model downloads, keeping audio and transcripts local.

ONLYOFFICE Docs is a self-hosted office suite for teams that want browser-based document editing and AI assistance on their own servers. It handles Word, Excel and PowerPoint formats (.docx, .xlsx and .pptx), alongside PDFs and fillable forms. The free community edition is open source under AGPL-3.0 and runs through Docker or on Linux and Windows servers.

Whisper Mate is a local-first transcription app for people who need text from recordings, calls or audio playing on their Mac. It brings transcription and subtitle work into one editor, with media processing that can stay on the Mac.

Ellama is an AI assistant for Emacs users who want help with writing and code inside their editor. It handles requests about selected text as well as longer conversations and coding tasks that need several steps.

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.

Speech Note lets you dictate, read aloud and translate multilingual notes on Linux and Sailfish OS. It's for people who want speech and text processing to stay on their device and work offline.

Argos Translate translates text on your own machine for people who need offline translation and developers adding translation to their software. Once you have the language models, it can translate without an internet connection or sending text to an online service.

Bergamot Translator is a local AI translation library for developers building translation into browser or native applications. People who want to translate web content can use it through the separate TranslateLocally extension for Firefox.

YouDub-webui is a self-hosted video translation and dubbing app for creators and small teams making videos available in another language. Its most established workflow is English-to-Chinese dubbing for YouTube; it also supports Chinese-to-English dubbing for Bilibili.

Whispering Tiger creates live transcripts and translations from audio on your computer for VRChat conversations and streaming captions. It can also read text in game images, so spoken dialogue and visible text can feed into the same translation workflow.

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.

Step-Audio 2 is an audio AI model family for developers building voice assistants and applications that interpret recordings. It can reason about what people say and how they say it, as well as sounds beyond speech.

Vibe is a desktop app for people who need transcripts or subtitles from recordings without uploading them to a transcription service. It handles audio and video locally, including interviews, meetings and material in different languages.

UGTLive translates text on your Windows screen for games, manga reading and language study. It places translations over the app you're viewing and requires an NVIDIA RTX 20, 30, 40 or 50 series GPU with at least 8 GB VRAM.

Raycast Ollama is a desktop launcher extension for people who want to chat with models and work on text without leaving Raycast. It connects to Ollama running on your machine or a remote server you choose.

HyperWhisper is a desktop speech-to-text app for Windows and Linux that keeps recordings on your computer. It's for people captioning videos, transcribing interviews or podcasts, or turning recordings into searchable text. The interface brings transcription, editing and subtitle export into one place.

LocalWriter adds AI writing assistance inside LibreOffice Writer for people who want to draft and revise text within their documents. It works with selected passages and requires a separate language model runner.

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.

OfflineLLM is an on-device AI chat app for Android users who want to run models locally without sending conversations to a cloud service. It works fully offline and has no network permissions.

PotPlayer ChatGPT Translate translates existing subtitles inside PotPlayer during video playback. It's for viewers who want AI translation with a choice of a local model or a hosted API.

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.

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.