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OpenWhispr gives you several ways to process speech and AI text. Pick the combination that fits your workflow.

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OpenWhispr Cloud

Sign in with Google, Apple (macOS), Microsoft, or email — no API keys needed.
  • Free plan — free forever, 2,000 words per rolling 7 days
  • Pro plan — unlimited transcriptions
  • Fastest option, no model downloads
  • Audio is processed on OpenWhispr’s servers

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Bring your own key (BYOK)

Use your own API keys from third-party providers: Enter your API keys in Settings under each provider section.

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Enterprise

Point OpenWhispr at your organization’s cloud LLM account — no model proxy and, with managed access, no personal API keys or CLI setup.
  • Amazon Bedrock — centrally managed OIDC federation or the existing AWS profile/key flow
  • Azure OpenAI — centrally managed Microsoft Entra federation or the existing API-key flow
  • GCP Vertex AI — planned
With managed access, IT assigns the employee through SCIM and chooses the models. The employee signs in with company SSO and can use the configured features immediately. Short-lived credentials remain in the desktop app’s main process, while AI text prompts and responses travel directly between the device and the organization’s cloud account. Transcription audio continues to follow the speech-to-text setting for that activity. See enterprise providers for setup.

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Local processing

Download a model and process everything on your device. Audio never leaves your machine.
  • Whisper — multiple model sizes from 75 MB to 3 GB
  • NVIDIA Parakeet & Nemotron — fast offline and streaming models, English and multilingual (~630–680 MB)
  • Works offline after initial model download
  • See local models for setup

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