Local AI Dictation and Transcription Apps

VoiceStudio is a local AI voice studio for creators who need speech generation and audio production without uploading their recordings. It combines voice creation, video dubbing and longer spoken projects in one application.

Notely Voice turns speech and recordings into editable notes for lectures, meetings and interviews. It runs Whisper on your device, so speech recognition works offline after you download a model and doesn't upload audio to a cloud service.

VoiceInk is a local AI dictation app for Mac users who want to speak emails, notes, and prompts into the applications they already use. Speech transcription works offline.

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.

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.

FluidVoice turns speech into text in Mac apps, including email, documents, chat, terminals and code editors. It suits people who want local dictation with optional editing before text reaches the active app.

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.

Google AI Edge Eloquent turns speech into edited text for people who prefer dictating notes and drafts to typing them. It uses on-device Gemma models to remove verbal filler and self-corrections.

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.

Screenpipe records computer activity so people can revisit past work and give AI agents context from screens and conversations. Capture history stays on your device by default.

Cloak by Polyaura is an on-device AI app for people who want to chat and work with voice recordings on their iPhone or iPad without sending them to a cloud service. It works without an internet connection after the initial model download.

Transcription Stream turns recordings into transcripts with speaker labels for people who need to review audio on their own hardware. It works fully offline, including summaries through Ollama and Mistral.

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.

WhisperLive turns speech into text as audio arrives, using OpenAI's Whisper models. It's for developers and teams who want to run transcription on their own machine or server and connect it to live audio or recorded files.

CloverPal is an Android app for private AI conversations and character roleplay on your phone. It runs models on-device, so you can chat offline once you've downloaded or imported a model.

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.

RealtimeSTT is a Python library for developers building voice assistants, dictation tools and apps that turn live audio into text. It can show text while someone speaks and produce a final transcript when they finish.

Private Mind is a mobile AI assistant for people who want to chat and read documents without sending their content to a cloud service. It runs AI and document processing on your phone.

Voicebox combines speech creation and dictation for people producing audio or working with AI agents. It's a free, open-source alternative to ElevenLabs and WisprFlow that processes voice data on your own machine.

Anarlog, formerly Hyprnote, is a desktop AI meeting notetaker for people who want to keep sensitive conversations on their own hardware. It's an open-source Granola alternative that combines personal notes with meeting transcripts.

Whispering is a speech-to-text app for people who want to dictate text into other applications and choose where transcription happens. Its desktop app runs within Epicenter, but the project currently lists it at compile status after a storage migration.

Whisper Notes transcribes interviews, lectures and meetings for people who need recordings to stay on their own device. It works without an internet connection or account.

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.

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.

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.

Scriberr transcribes recordings locally for people who want to review meetings and voice notes without uploading audio to a cloud service. It combines transcription with playback, annotations and optional questions about the recorded conversation.

ScribeDog is a Markdown editor for writers and note-takers who want AI help with documents they keep in their own folders. It shows formatted content while saving plain Markdown files that other editors can open.

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.

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.

Off Grid AI is a local AI app for people who want chat, document analysis and media tools on their own phone or computer. Downloaded models work offline, and the core app doesn't require an account.

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.

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.

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.

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.