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OpenWhispr/openwhispr: README (GitHub)
GitHub (OpenWhispr repository), 2026
Read the originalRead on October 16, 2026
- What it is
- The public README of OpenWhispr, a cross-platform dictation app, on GitHub. It lists the platforms, the local and cloud speech models, and its privacy statements.
- How much weight it carries
- The project's own description of itself, read on the access date. Privacy statements are the developer's claims and have not been independently audited here.
Facts taken from this source
- OpenWhispr describes itself as a cross-platform dictation app for macOS, Windows and Linux.
“Privacy-first voice-to-text dictation with AI agents, meeting transcription, and notes. Cross-platform for macOS, Windows, and Linux.” (Introduction)
- OpenWhispr's README lists Whisper and NVIDIA Parakeet among the local speech models that run offline.
“Choose between fully private offline transcription with local speech-to-text models like Orukeet, Whisper, NVIDIA Parakeet, and Cohere Transcribe” (Introduction)
- OpenWhispr's README states that it has no data collection and no telemetry, and that it is fully open source.
“No data collection, no telemetry, fully open source.” (Introduction)