whisper

Local, on-device voice-to-text for macOS. Press a hotkey, speak, get text pasted into any app.

Uses whisper.cpp for fully local speech-to-text — no network requests, no cloud APIs.

Install

curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/btn0s/whisper/main/install.sh | bash

This downloads the app to /Applications, and fetches the Whisper model (~142MB) to ~/.whisper/.

On first launch, grant microphone and accessibility permissions when prompted.

Usage

• Option+Space — Toggle recording (press to start, press again to stop and paste)
• Escape — Cancel recording (only captured while recording)
• Lives in the menubar tray

Dev

Prerequisites

• Rust / Cargo
• CMake (for whisper.cpp compilation)

Run

cargo tauri dev

Build

CMAKE_OSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.15 cargo tauri build

Config

• WHISPER_MODEL — Path to Whisper .bin model (default: ~/.whisper/ggml-base.en.bin)