Whispy — Free Local Audio Transcription.

What it does

Every transcription tool I could find uploads your audio to a cloud server. For journalists, lawyers, researchers, or anyone with sensitive recordings: that's a real problem. Whispy is different because everything runs locally in your browser. The AI model downloads once and runs entirely on your device. Your audio never touches a server, not even for a millisecond. No account. No upload. No subscription. Free forever.

Whispy is a free browser-based audio transcription tool that runs entirely on your device. Drop any audio file and get a clean transcript in seconds. Your audio never leaves your device — no upload, no account, no cloud processing required. Works with MP3, WAV, M4A, FLAC and MP4 files. Powered by OpenAI's Whisper model running locally via WebAssembly. Works offline after the first model download. Perfect for journalists protecting sources, lawyers handling privileged conversations, researchers transcribing interviews, doctors taking notes, podcasters, therapists,and students transcribingfrom usewhispy.com

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