Dictation app

Local Whisper

by Soroush Yousefpour

A local-first speech-to-text app and dictation service for Mac, with iPhone and Android apps and keyboards, that transcribes on the device without a hosted speech service.

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Speech engines it runs

NVIDIA Parakeet by NVIDIAParakeet TDT v3, English: 4.48%Parakeet TDT v3, No noise: 4.44%Parakeet TDT v3, 20 dB: 4.44%Parakeet TDT v3, 10 dB: 4.48%Parakeet TDT v3, 5 dB: 7.85%Parakeet TDT v3, 0 dB: 44.47%
Qwen3-ASR by Alibaba Cloud (Qwen team)
Apple SpeechAnalyzer by Apple
WhisperKit by Argmax

Word error rates from our own tests on public recordings: English in a quiet room and with background talk. Lower is better.

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Local Whisper: custom vocabulary2026-101 1 = yes, 0 = no
Local Whisper: AI grammar cleanup2026-101 1 = yes, 0 = no
Local Whisper: audio on servers2026-100 1 = yes, 0 = no
Local Whisper: text to third-party AI2026-100 1 = yes, 0 = no
Local Whisper: speech on device2026-101 1 = yes, 0 = no
Local Whisper: types into apps2026-101 1 = yes, 0 = no

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