Lispr

Hold a key, speak, and Lispr writes it anywhere

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Hold a key, speak, and Lispr writes it anywhere

4.8•4 reviews•

578 followers

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Lispr is a free voice dictation and translation app for Mac and Windows. Hold a key, speak, release. Your words land in whatever app your cursor is in. Speak in ~99 languages and switch mid-sentence. Hold your translation key as well, and the translation lands instead, in any of 32 languages. Median latency 346 ms. The mic is off until you hold the key, and we never store your audio. No account, no model download, free.

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Wispr Flow: Dictation That Works EverywhereStop typing. Start speaking. 4x faster.

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What's great

At a median latency of ~346ms, it shatters the 1-2 second "quick-sand" feel of cloud-reliant dictation tools like Wispr Flow. It achieves this by bypassing the typical "record-then-upload" cycle and using a streaming architecture that pushes directly to the edge.

The "No-Account" policy is a breath of fresh air. In an era where every utility demands your email and marketing consent, Lispr respects the developer workflow: install, run, and it just works. It doesn't attempt to "learn your voice" or "build a profile," which keeps the binary footprint tiny (~3.67MB).

By using CGEventTap and native hotkey hooking rather than trying to build a heavy overlay/dashboard, it behaves exactly like a system-level service. It injects text into any input field—whether it's VS Code, a browser, or a terminal—without needing to be the "active" application.

What needs improvement

Unlike Wispr Flow, Lispr outputs exactly what you say. It doesn't strip out "umms" or fix stuttering. Adding an optional "Prose-Mode" toggle to clean up transcripts post-dictation would be a massive productivity win without sacrificing the speed of the raw mode.

As a dev, I dictate words like "SQL," "Kubernetes," or specific function names that standard models often misinterpret. A lightweight, local-only dictionary override would make this 10x more useful for coding workflows.

While the cloud relay is fast, providing an option to run a tiny, quantized local Whisper model for "offline-only" privacy-critical moments would make this the ultimate power-user tool.

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superwhisper

Wispr Flow

I have previously evaluated Wispr Flow (the market leader for "polished" dictation) and Superwhisper (for local privacy). I also briefly looked at Apple’s native Dictation.

I chose Lispr because it eliminates the "subscription tax" and the "privacy tax." Wispr Flow is a great tool for those who want AI-driven text polishing (fixing grammar/tone), but it's a "black box" that routes audio through their cloud for processing. Lispr is a "plumbing" tool—it does one thing (dictation/translation) perfectly, with zero overhead, and stays out of my way. It’s the superior choice for developers who want a high-speed interface for pushing text into LLMs like Claude or Cursor.

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