Alternatives to Whis

OpenTypeless is free, open-source desktop voice typing that turns speech into polished text in any app using your own AI provider keys.

Free, open-source macOS dictation that transcribes your voice 100% on-device with whisper.cpp and Metal.

hns is a speech-to-text CLI that transcribes your microphone locally with Whisper and copies the text straight to your clipboard.

NexTalk is an open-source, fully offline voice dictation capsule for Linux, wired into Fcitx5 via a Unix domain socket.

Open-source, MIT-licensed voice dictation that runs Whisper locally or on your own cloud API keys.

Open-source AI voice dictation for Windows and macOS that works in any text input field and lets you pick your own STT and LLM models.

Privacy-first, open-source voice dictation for macOS with on-device Whisper and NVIDIA Parakeet models and one-click meeting transcription.

Wispr Flow turns spoken rambling into polished text in any app, with AI voice dictation on Mac, Windows, iOS, and Android.

Whisper Memos is an Apple-only AI voice recorder that emails you formatted transcripts and routes memos to your tools by spoken agent name.

MacWhisper transcribes audio to text offline on your Mac with Whisper, Parakeet and Qwen models — no audio leaves your machine.

OmniVoice Studio is an open-source desktop studio for local voice cloning, voice design, dubbing, dictation and audiobook production.

Superwhisper is voice-to-text software that dictates clean, formatted text into any app on macOS, Windows, iOS, and Android.

BiBi Keyboard is an Android voice-input keyboard with 10+ cloud and offline ASR engines plus LLM text cleanup.

Voicebox is an open-source desktop AI voice studio for local voice cloning, dictation, and agent speech — no account required, MIT licensed.

Free, open-source speech-to-text that runs entirely on your own machine, with diarization, summaries, and a calendar-based audio notebook.

Harker is a free macOS voice-to-text app that transcribes speech on-device and pastes it into whatever app you're already typing in.

ChordVox is local-first desktop voice input that pastes AI-polished text at your cursor on macOS, Windows, and Linux.

Blurt adds offline speech-to-text dictation to any GNOME window using whisper.cpp, powered by local recognition.

Najva is a free macOS menubar app that does offline Whisper speech-to-text, then optionally hands your transcript to Claude, GPT, or Gemini using your own API

AI voice keyboard for iOS that cleans up your speech into formatted text as you talk, about 4x faster than typing

System-wide macOS and Windows voice tool that turns rambling speech into structured prompts and clean dictation in any text field.

Monologue is Apple-only voice dictation that writes what you meant in any app, then turns notes into context your AI agents can use.

Willow is AI voice dictation for Mac, Windows, and iPhone that turns natural speech into clean, formatted text in any app.

Free AGPL-3.0 Linux voice dictation: hold Right Alt and local whisper.cpp transcribes into any focused app

TalkNotes is a voice-to-text note app that records up to 2 hours per note and reshapes your speech into 100+ structured output styles.

Whisperstream is private, offline Windows dictation: push-to-talk transcription on your own PC for $29 once.

Voice-first AI keyboard for iPhone that turns speech into polished, send-ready text.

Open-source AI dictation that formats your speech for any app — Gmail, Slack, your editor — free with local models.

Free Chrome extension that adds speech-to-text input and spoken text-to-speech output to the ChatGPT web interface.

Open-source AI dictation that types up to 220 wpm system-wide on macOS, Windows, and Linux.