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OpenWhispr listens when you press a key, transcribes what you say, and types it wherever your cursor is. It works in any app — email, chat, a code editor, a document. Nothing to copy, no window to switch to.

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How it works

  1. Press your hotkey. On macOS that’s the Globe (Fn) key by default; on Windows Ctrl+Win, on Linux Ctrl+Super.
  2. Speak. The panel shows it’s recording.
  3. Press it again to stop — or hold the key throughout and release, if you’ve set it to hold.
  4. The text is transcribed, tidied, and pasted at your cursor.
Step 4 does two things worth knowing about separately: transcription turns audio into words, and cleanup tidies those words before they land. Cleanup is on by default, which is why dictation reads like writing.

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Set it up the way you want

Your hotkeys

Five separate shortcuts, what each starts, and how to change or unbind them.

Hold or tap

Press to start and stop, or hold while you speak.

Choosing a shortcut

The rules, the reserved combinations, and what to use instead.

Where your text goes

Automatic pasting, permissions, and keeping a clipboard copy.

Dictation cleanup

What gets tidied before pasting, and how to switch it off.

Other languages

Set the language you speak, or let it detect one.

Translation

Dictate in one language, paste in another.

Better accuracy

Four things that measurably improve results.

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It isn’t only dictation

The same voice, on a different shortcut, can carry out an instruction rather than be typed out. If you’re getting answers instead of your words, that’s the voice agent — the four things your voice can start tells them apart.

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When something goes wrong