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OpenWhispr turns your voice into text, notes, and actions. It runs on your desktop with local or cloud speech recognition, an AI agent you can talk to, live meeting transcription, and a full notes system with semantic search.

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What you can do

Dictation

Press a hotkey, speak, and your words appear at your cursor. Works in any app.

AI agent

Talk to your AI assistant using OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, or local models.

Meeting transcription

Auto-detect Zoom, Teams, and FaceTime calls. Transcribe with speaker labels.

Notes

Create, organize, and search notes with folders, cloud sync, and AI actions.

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Processing options

Choose how your audio is processed:
  • OpenWhispr Cloud — sign in and transcribe instantly, no API keys needed
  • Bring your own key — use your own OpenAI, Groq, or AssemblyAI API keys
  • Local processing — download Whisper or NVIDIA Parakeet models for completely private transcription

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Platforms

OpenWhispr runs on macOS 12+, Windows 10+, and Linux. Download from the releases page or build from source.

macOS

Apple Silicon and Intel

Windows

x64 with push-to-talk

Linux

AppImage, deb, rpm, Flatpak

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For developers

OpenWhispr has a public REST API and an MCP server for AI assistant integration.

API reference

Manage notes, folders, transcriptions, and usage programmatically.

MCP server

Connect Claude, Cursor, or VS Code to your OpenWhispr data.