BetterWispr is a free, open-source dictation app for macOS that transcribes locally with no account and no cloud fallback. Hold Option and Space in any app, speak, and cleaned text lands where your cursor was. Nine built-in speech models cover Apple speech, Parakeet and Whisper across English, Japanese and 25 European languages, and a notetaker mode uses Apple Intelligence or Ollama on your Mac to write meeting summaries, decisions and action items. Apache 2.0 licensed.
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Speak into any app with a hold-to-talk shortcut and get clean text pasted back
Transcribe your mic and other apps, then summarise decisions and actions locally
Say comma, question mark or scratch that to edit as you speak
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