Hey Product Hunt 👋 We built Local Whisper because we were tired of a quiet trade-off nobody seemed to question: to turn your voice into text, you had to send it to someone else's server. Every dictation tool we tried worked the same way, hold a key, talk, and your audio gets uploaded to the cloud to be transcribed. It's convenient until you think about what you're actually dictating: client details, half-finished ideas, code, things you'd never paste into a random web form. And it simply stops working the moment your Wi-Fi does. So we set out to build the opposite. Local Whisper runs its speech engine entirely on your Windows PC. You hold a hotkey, speak into any app, email, Word, Slack, your editor, a ChatGPT or Claude prompt, and clean, punctuated text lands right where your cursor is. Nothing is uploaded. There's no account. It works on a plane, behind a firewall, in airplane mode. Your voice never leaves your machine, because architecturally it can't. The part we're most proud of: it's a one-time purchase, not a subscription. You buy it once and own it. No monthly fee for something running on your own computer. There's a 14-day free trial with no card and no sign-up, the best way to feel it is to install it, turn off your Wi-Fi, and watch it keep working. We'd genuinely love your feedback, and we'll be here all day answering questions. What would make this a daily tool for you? 🙏

Local Whisper

Private dictation that never leaves your PC

Private dictation that never leaves your PC