OpenSuperWhisper
A local macOS dictation app that transcribes speech and audio files with Whisper or Parakeet models on Apple Silicon.
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OpenSuperWhisper is a speech-to-text app for people who want to dictate or transcribe saved recordings on an Apple Silicon Mac. It runs Whisper and Parakeet models locally.
- Dictation controls: Start and stop recording with a global keyboard shortcut, a single modifier key or a mouse button, or hold the trigger while speaking and release it to stop.
- Audio file transcription: Drop recordings into the app and process them through a queue.
- Microphone choice: Use built-in, external or Bluetooth microphones, or an iPhone microphone through Apple Continuity.
- Language support: Automatic language detection supports multilingual transcription, with autocorrection for Japanese, Chinese and Korean text.
The app requires macOS on Apple Silicon and is open source under the MIT license. You can download models within the app, and it accepts Whisper.cpp models in .bin format. For Hebrew, it offers ivrit.ai's Turbo V3 Hebrew fine-tune of whisper-large-v3-turbo; selecting it automatically sets the input language to Hebrew.
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