Yapper
Free, open-source alternative to Superwhisper for macOS
What it does
Dictation app for macOS. Press a hotkey, talk, text appears at your cursor. Whisper runs locally on your Mac, so your audio never leaves your machine. If you want the output cleaned up, send it through OpenAI, Anthropic, or a local Ollama model. Seven built-in modes (plain transcription, email, message, notes, meeting, smart) or make your own. The AI modes read your clipboard, selected text, and what app you're in to format the output accordingly. Free. Open source. MIT license.
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- SAsuperwhisper – AI powered offline voice to text for macOS2023 · superwhisper.com · ▲43
Hey HN, I built superwhisper out of frustration with the native dictation capabilities of macOS. Inaccurate, required manual punctuation, didnt activate in some contexts or would have audio capture issues. I wanted a replacement that worked offline, had cross language support, was configurable and worked in any application. Under the hood the app is using whisper.cpp, which runs really well on the Apple Silicon chips. You can use the base and standard size models for free, larger models sizes and languages other than english are paid. Let me know what you think! For context, I launched this…
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