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Chirp
Private speech-to-text for Mac & Windows — free, on-device, no subscription.
- v1.1.0live on macOS 14+ and Windows 11
- 8.84 MBmacOS app — 88.6 MB on Windows
- ~74 MBsmallest speech model
- On-deviceby default — no account, no telemetry
How it works
Hold a key, speak, and Chirp types into the app you're already using. Whisper and Parakeet models run entirely on your own machine — through Core ML on macOS and natively on Windows — so no transcript leaves the device unless a cloud provider is explicitly connected. No account, no telemetry, no always-on cloud.
Native, not a wrapper
It's a native SwiftUI app on macOS and a native WinUI 3 app on Windows — not a web wrapper on either. Dictionary rules, text snippets and cleanup modes shape the words it returns; history and optional API keys stay in the macOS Keychain or Windows Credential Manager.
Beyond live dictation: import audio, search local history, replay saved recordings, and export plain text.
- Status
- v1.1.0 — released
- Platforms
- macOS 14+ · Windows 11
- Price
- Free — no subscription
- Stack
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- SwiftUI
- WinUI 3
- Whisper
- Parakeet
- Core ML
- On-device ML