Whisper Freely
Whisper Freely is a macOS menu-bar dictation app that transcribes speech locally and pastes the result into the active text field. It uses Whisper large-v3-turbo with Apple MLX and Metal, requires no account, and makes no network calls while dictating.
Overview
10 featuresWhisper Freely sits in PulseGate's Speech to text category. It focuses on dictating text privately and quickly into any Mac application without sending audio to the cloud. It is built as a consumer product for mac users who want offline, privacy-focused voice dictation. Whisper Freely costs nothing to use. It ships for the command line and macOS.
Among its 10 catalogued features are offline dictation, menu-bar app, and system-wide input.
Summary written by a language model from the project’s public pages.
- Offline dictation
- Menu-bar app
- System-wide input
- Double-tap activation
- Automatic punctuation
- Local transcription
- Clipboard insertion
- 99 languages
- Apple Silicon support
- No account required
Built with & integrations
Trust & compliance
Indexing history
1What PulseGate has recorded for this listing
- Indexed28 Aug · 16:03 UTCWhispr for Free: How SaaS Is Dead in One Prompt verified against its public sourceSource: PulseGate · Open
Frequently asked questions about Whisper Freely
- What does Whisper Freely do?
- Whisper Freely focuses on dictating text privately and quickly into any Mac application without sending audio to the cloud. It is catalogued under Speech to text on PulseGate.
- Who should use Whisper Freely?
- Whisper Freely is a consumer product built for mac users who want offline, privacy-focused voice dictation.
- Is Whisper Freely free?
- Yes — Whisper Freely is free to use.
- What platforms does Whisper Freely run on?
- Whisper Freely runs on the command line and macOS.
- Is Whisper Freely still active?
- Unverified. Whisper Freely has not been re-checked since it entered the index, so there is no finding either way — and only a positive finding would say otherwise.
- What are alternatives to Whisper Freely?
- Similar projects tracked by PulseGate include whisper-local, Whisperly, and StageWhisper Lite.whisper-localWhisperlyStageWhisper Lite
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