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Murmurly 0.1.0

The first public release.

Murmurly is a dictation and meeting recorder for your Mac. Speech is recognized
on your Mac: Murmurly never uploads your recordings or text to be transcribed.

What it does

  • Dictation into other apps. Press ⌥Space, speak, press ⌥Space again: the
    text is pasted where your cursor is. You can change the shortcut or use a
    double press of ⌘ or ⌥ instead.
  • Meeting recording. Recording starts on its own when another app starts
    using the microphone, or when you press ⌥⇧R. Your microphone and the call
    audio are saved as two separate tracks.
  • Transcripts. After a meeting, Murmurly writes a transcript with
    timestamps, with your microphone and the call audio labeled separately.
  • Files. Transcribe audio and video files: mp3, m4a, wav, mp4, mov.
  • History. Every recognized dictation is kept in a searchable history.
  • Two speech engines. Parakeet (about 0.5 GB, 25 European languages) or
    Whisper (about 1.6 GB, about 100 languages). Models download from Hugging
    Face only when you ask.
  • Interface in 12 languages. All translations except English and Russian
    were made by machine; corrections are welcome.
  • Automatic updates. Murmurly checks GitHub for a new version once a day;
    you can turn this off in Settings → Permissions. An update you choose while a
    meeting is being recorded or transcribed, a file is being transcribed, or
    during a dictation, is installed when you quit instead of restarting the app.

Requirements

  • A Mac with Apple silicon.
  • macOS 15 Sequoia or later.

Before you start

  • Automatic meeting recording is on by default. In many countries,
    recording a conversation requires the consent of everyone in it, and Murmurly
    does not notify other participants. You can turn automatic recording off on
    the first screen or in Settings → Meetings.
  • If macOS won't open the app, this release is not signed with a Developer
    ID. Try to open it once, then open System Settings → Privacy & Security and
    click Open Anyway. With such a release you may need to grant the
    permissions again after each update.

Known limitations

  • The other participants' voices are not told apart: everyone on the other side
    is "Others".
  • Dictation and meeting recording never run at the same time. One dictation
    lasts at most 5 minutes; an automatic meeting recording at most 4 hours.
  • A meeting transcription does not resume after quitting. Choosing Quit during
    a transcription, or while its transcript is copied to your transcript folder,
    warns first; logging out, restarting or shutting down the Mac interrupts it
    without a warning. Use Transcribe Meeting… to transcribe it
    later.
  • Removing duplicated speech from the transcript does not work for languages
    written without spaces, such as Chinese and Japanese.
  • ⌥Space is also the default shortcut of ChatGPT for Mac. If you use both,
    change one of them.

The full list is in the
README.

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