OpenAI's Whisper, running locally on your Mac.
Whisper Talk brings OpenAI's state-of-the-art Whisper speech recognition to your Mac as a native app. Hold a hotkey, speak, and get accurate text transcription — completely offline. No API keys, no cloud services, no monthly fees.
Get Whisper Talk$19Uses OpenAI's Whisper model via optimized Rust bindings (whisper.cpp). Near-human accuracy for English speech.
Built as a proper Mac app with menu bar integration, global hotkeys, and system notifications. Not a web wrapper.
All speech processing happens on your device. No audio uploaded, no API calls, no telemetry. Your voice is yours.
Choose Tiny (75MB) for speed or Medium (1.5GB) for best accuracy. Pick the right balance for your hardware.
Transcribed text automatically appears in your active application. Works in email, Slack, code editors, documents.
Optional grammar, punctuation, and spelling correction via local LLM. Your raw speech becomes polished writing.
The base model handles everyday English excellently. The medium model (1.5GB) approaches human-level accuracy. With AI correction enabled, the output is clean, punctuated text.
Yes, 100%. After the one-time model download, no internet is ever needed. All processing happens on your Mac's CPU/GPU.
Whisper Talk currently supports English dictation. The underlying Whisper models support 50+ languages, and multilingual support may come in a future update.
Typically 3-8 seconds from releasing the hotkey to text appearing in your app. Smaller models are faster; larger models are more accurate.
$19 one-time · Powered by Whisper · 30-day money-back guarantee
Buy Whisper Talk for $19