Knuckles92 / OpenWhisper
Local dictation and meeting notes with Whisper or the OpenAI API. Custom Whisper models, MCP history access, and shared engines over LAN/Tailscale. Optional Parakeet/Nemotron (Windows x64, Linux x86_64), Qwen3-ASR/Moonshine (Windows x64), and Parakeet CPU/experimental MLX (Apple Silicon).
Why this job: says: dictation; topics: whisper, speech-to-text, transcription, dictation
What it does
- Dictation. Record from any app with a global hotkey, see a live preview on supported engines, and paste the result into the active window.
- Walkthroughs. Talk through a task while keeping screenshots, then get a PDF, Word and Markdown document with each screenshot after the words that describe it, ready to paste into a coding agent. Review and correct saved walkthroughs, or hav
- Audio files. Transcribe one file or a queue, keep results separate or combine them, and copy the output when ready.
- Meetings. Capture microphone and system audio, follow a live dashboard, review searchable transcripts and AI insights, play recordings, and export. Available on Windows and macOS 13+; Linux system audio is a preview.
- AI cleanup. Choose Light, Medium, or High cleanup, which handles spoken corrections and lists, then apply spelling and style rules or reusable cleanup profiles, with separate text-model choices for dictation and meetings.
Get started
No single install command. Read the steps in the README (opens in new tab)
- Maintenance
- Active
- Last commit today
- Stars
- 253
- +18 this week
- Licence
- MIT
- Allows business use
- Downloads for
- 3 systems
- Mac, Windows, Linux
- Latest version
- v2.8.7
- Released today
- Built with
- Python
- 93% of the code
Is it looked after?
- Contributors
- 2
- Last 90 days
- Issues
- 100% closed
- 0 still open
- Pull requests
- 63 merged
- 0 waiting
- Releases
- 52
- 30+ in the last year
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More: download files, languages, topics and project record
Download files, v2.8.7
- Mac1 file, 1 downloads
- Windows2 files, 6 downloads
- Linux2 files, 2 downloads
Languages
- Python 93%
- TypeScript 4%
- JavaScript 1%
- CSS 1%
Topics
- desktop-app
- dictation
- linux
- local-first
- macos
- mcp
- meeting-notes
- open-source
- parakeet
- privacy
- speech-to-text
- transcription
Project record
- JobSpeech and audio
- StatusListed
- Commits1,448
- Forks41
- Watching2
- Stars in 28 days+47
- CreatedNov 25, 2024
- First seen by usNov 7, 2026
- CheckedNov 9, 2026