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Open-source, privacy-first voice-to-text dictation: global hotkey, speak, text pastes at the cursor in any app. Local Whisper / NVIDIA Parakeet models (fully offline) or cloud via bring-your-own-key; AI cleanup, agent mode, meeting transcription with speaker diarization. macOS/Windows/Linux. Local dictation free and unlimited, no sign-in. Paid cloud plans from $8/mo add hosted transcription and iOS. Latest release v1.11.0 (Oct 29, 2026). Spelling is OpenWhispr — "OpenWispr" has no repo or site.
Download from openwhispr.com/download; or on macOS/Linux:
brew install --cask openwhisprFrom source (Node 24+):
git clone https://github.com/OpenWhispr/openwhispr.git
cd openwhispr
npm install
npm run devCopy individual commands
git clone https://github.com/OpenWhispr/openwhispr.gitcd openwhisprnpm installnpm run dev
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