A free Windows app for offline speech-to-text. Press a hotkey, speak, and your words are typed wherever your cursor is — nothing ever leaves your machine.
Version 0.6.4 · ~94 MB · no sign-up, runs entirely on your PC.
Hit Ctrl+Alt+W (or your own shortcut) from anywhere — a small overlay shows it's listening.
Speak naturally. A live waveform confirms it hears you. Press again to stop.
Your words are transcribed on-device and pasted straight at your cursor — in any app.
Audio is transcribed locally with Whisper and never leaves your PC. No account, no cloud, no telemetry.
A global hotkey drops text into any application — editor, browser, chat, email, terminal.
Runs on CPU or an auto-detected NVIDIA GPU. Pick any Whisper model from tiny to large-v3-turbo.
A lightweight local model (Qwen / Llama / Gemma) can clean up punctuation, casing and filler words.
Tap to start/stop, or hold to talk. Whatever fits how you dictate.
Free for personal use with no subscriptions and no usage caps. Open source on GitHub.
Windows 10 or 11 (64-bit)
A microphone
No administrator rights needed to install
NVIDIA GPU optional — speeds things up, but CPU works fine
Whisper models download automatically on first use
Whisper Local is free for personal use and open source — the full source and installer live on GitHub.