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21.8k starsMIT
View guide โA macOS menu-bar dictation app powered by local WhisperKit.
pindrop is an open-source audio project by watzon (watzon/pindrop on GitHub). It has 628 GitHub stars and 52 forks, is released under the MIT license, and was last updated on GitHub on 5 September 2026.
Download it for your Apple Silicon Mac.
It sits quietly until you call on it.
Speak and watch text land in the active app.
WhisperKit processes everything locally.
Lightweight and always a click away.
On-device transcription via Apple's optimized stack.
Built for the performance of M-series chips.
Audio stays on your Mac โ no cloud involved.
Feels like a real Mac app, not a port.
Free for personal and commercial use.
Download the source and move into the project folder.
git clone https://github.com/watzon/pindrop.git
cd pindropEvery project documents its own setup; start with install requirements.
cat README.md | head -60Follow the project's launch command โ Docker, pip, npm, or a binary release.
# see README for the exact launch commandIt is an open-source project at watzon/pindrop with 52 forks. Check the repo's contributors and recent commits to see how active maintenance is.
MIT licensed โ commercial use allowed with attribution.
It targets Apple Silicon with WhisperKit โ check the README for Intel status.
Nowhere โ transcription is local, so audio stays on your Mac.
From the menu bar app; check the docs for hotkey options.
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
Free, open source, 100% offline AI dictation for Windows & macOS.
Free offline Whisper dictation for Windows, macOS, and Linux.
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 โ grab the source, star the repo, and start creating.