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buzz
Buzz transcribes and translates audio offline on your personal computer. Powered by OpenAI's Whisper.
★ 21.8k starsMIT
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amical is an open-source audio project by amicalhq (amicalhq/amical on GitHub). It has 1,544 GitHub stars and 140 forks, is released under the MIT license, and was last updated on GitHub on 25 September 2026.
Download the desktop build for your operating system.
Speech recognition runs on-device using open models.
Dictate anywhere and watch words appear in real time.
No internet needed — privacy comes standard.
Open-source models run on your device, not in the cloud.
Dictate on planes, in dead zones, or behind firewalls.
Claims to let you write far faster than a keyboard.
Speaks into any app: editors, browsers, messengers.
Designed for voice-first writing and note capture.
Free for personal and commercial use with attribution.
Download the source and move into the project folder.
git clone https://github.com/amicalhq/amical.git
cd amicalEvery project documents its own setup; start with install requirements.
cat README.md | head -60Follow the project's launch command — Docker, pip, npm, or a binary release.
# see README for the exact launch commandIt is an open-source project at amicalhq/amical with 140 forks. Check the repo's contributors and recent commits to see how active maintenance is.
MIT licensed — commercial use allowed with attribution.
No — it is designed to work offline with models running locally.
It aims for fast, accurate results with open models; try the demo to judge for your accent.
It is an Electron app targeting the major desktop operating systems.
Buzz transcribes and translates audio offline on your personal computer. Powered by OpenAI's Whisper.
A robust, efficient, low-latency speech-to-text library with advanced voice activity detection, wake word activation and instant transcription.
Converts text to speech in realtime
Open-source dictation with offline recognition, everywhere.
Free, open source, 100% offline AI dictation for Windows & macOS.
Free and open source offline voice dictation for Windows, Linux, and macOS.
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Robust Speech Recognition via Large-Scale Weak Supervision
1 min voice data can also be used to train a good TTS model! (few shot voice cloning)
Clone a voice from 5 seconds of audio and generate arbitrary speech in real time
Port of OpenAI's Whisper model in C/C++
Free and open — grab the source, star the repo, and start creating.