Fact · Languages and accents
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open-wispr's home page says it supports 99 languages through Whisper's multilingual models.
Quote found word for word on the live source, last checked October 20, 2026
In the source's own words
“Supports 99 languages via Whisper's multilingual models.”
open-wispr: Free Voice Dictation for macOS (100% Local, No Cloud), open-wispr (github.com/human37/open-wispr), 2026, Features, Multilingual.
Open the original- What it measures
- open-wispr is a free, open-source Mac dictation app that runs whisper.cpp with Metal acceleration on Apple Silicon. Its home page lists 99 languages in its comparison table as well as in the Multilingual feature and its FAQ.
- What it does not show
- The default model is base.en, and the page says other languages need a non-.en model and an ISO 639-1 language code in the config. The page does not say how accurate the 99 languages are, and it does not list them.
In the data
A row of How Many Languages Speech Recognition Supports, as open-wispr: 99 languages.
- System
- open-wispr
- Maker
- human37
- Kind
- Dictation app
- What is counted
- Languages
- On device
- Yes
- As of
- 2026-10
Source
Used to calculate
- In the languages supported by speech recognition systems dataset, the 72 published figures for “Dictation app” have a median of 54 languages, ranging from 1 to 1,600.
- The languages supported by speech recognition systems dataset holds 185 data points, each a published figure traced to its source.
- The languages supported by speech recognition systems dataset draws on 153 distinct sources.