Hold a key, speak. Words land at the cursor.
Free, open-source voice transcription for macOS. Whisper models run on your Mac, so nothing leaves the machine. It lives in the menu bar, listens while you hold a hotkey, and pastes the text wherever you're typing.
MIT licensed · Apple Silicon · macOS 14+
Draft the Friday invoice run for Project A, group the hours by task, and send it to me for review before it goes out
REWRITE MY SELECTION
Select text. Say what you want. It's done.
Highlight anything, anywhere, hold a hotkey, and say how to change it — make it shorter, fix the typos, turn it into an email. The rewrite is pasted in place, in your own writing style.
- Works in any app that has a text field
- One AI setting: Anthropic, any OpenAI-compatible endpoint, or Apple’s on-device model
- Learns how you write from your dictation and edits, and stays local
$ brew install --cask loopedautomation/tap/looped-whisper
Everything a dictation app should do. Nothing it shouldn't.
Local transcription
Whisper models run on-device via WhisperKit. Works offline once the model is downloaded.
Bring your own model
Pick anything from tiny to large-v3. Downloaded once, cached, swapped from the menu bar.
Global hotkeys
Push-to-talk while held, or toggle to start and stop. The fn / Globe key works too.
Realtime mode
Live captions as you speak, for when you want to watch the words arrive.
Vocabulary
Bias recognition toward your names, jargon, and identifiers so they come out spelled right.
Style templates
Separate voices for email, Slack, and docs. Pick one by saying "rewrite it as an email".