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Kalam v2.1.0 — Real Whisper Transcription

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@harshvardhaniimi harshvardhaniimi released this 20 Feb 16:25
v2.1.0
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What's New

Kalam now uses real OpenAI Whisper models for transcription, replacing the previous Apple Speech Recognition backend. This is a major upgrade to transcription quality and language support.

Changes

  • Real Whisper models — Powered by WhisperKit running CoreML-optimized Whisper models on Apple Neural Engine
  • Working model picker — Download and switch between Tiny, Base, Small, Medium, and Large-v3 models
  • 99 language support — Full Whisper language coverage (30+ in the UI picker)
  • Auto-download — Base model (~140 MB) downloads automatically on first launch
  • Requires macOS 14.0+ (Sonoma) — needed for WhisperKit's CoreML optimizations

Install

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

Or download Kalam.zip, unzip, move to /Applications, then:

xattr -cr /Applications/Kalam.app

Right-click → Open (first time only).

Note

First launch will download the base Whisper model (~140 MB). This requires an internet connection. After that, everything runs locally.

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