Fact · Dictation software
OpenWhispr's README lists Whisper and NVIDIA Parakeet among the local speech models that run offline.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“Choose between fully private offline transcription with local speech-to-text models like Orukeet, Whisper, NVIDIA Parakeet, and Cohere Transcribe”
OpenWhispr/openwhispr: README (GitHub), GitHub (OpenWhispr repository), 2026, Introduction.
Open the original- What it measures
- The same passage offers cloud processing as a choice. The README spells one model name as Orukeet, which is copied as written.
- What it does not show
- The README's list of local models can change between releases, so check the current list before relying on a specific model.