MiniWhisper

Open-source macOS menu bar app for voice-to-text dictation. Private, offline, multilingual speech recognition powered by Parakeet/whisper.cpp — auto-pastes transcriptions into the active app.

Speech Recognition
Mobile & Desktop Apps
Local LLMs

apple-silicon
dictation
macos
menu-bar
on-device
parakeet-mlx
speech-to-text
stt
swift
transcription
voice-to-text
whisper
homebrew
multilingual
offline

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Stars: 34
Forks: 7
+ today: +1
Created: 7mo

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Overview

Open-source macOS menu bar app for voice-to-text dictation. Private, offline, multilingual speech recognition powered by Parakeet/whisper.cpp — auto-pastes transcriptions into the active app. It ranks #1406 on GitTiger, gaining +1 star on October 7, 2026 (UTC).

The project is written in Swift and has 7 forks. It was created 7mo ago.

Installation

git clone https://github.com/andyhtran/MiniWhisper.git
cd MiniWhisper
# see README for setup