WhisperBud is a native macOS dictation app. Hold fn key and talk anywhere on your Mac, and rambling speech becomes clear, formatted text in a blink, processed entirely on your device. Your audio never leaves your machine. It works in every app, email, cursor, claude code, Slack, notes, and pastes right at your cursor. Not a raw transcript: fillers are removed, punctuation added, and it learns the names and terms you use.
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Hey everyone 👋 I'm the maker of WhisperBud.
There are some great dictation tools out there now, and most of them format your speech well. But nearly all of them run in the cloud: your audio, and everything you dictate, gets sent to server. That's fine for a grocery list, but not for client work, passwords, medical notes, code, or anything you'd rather not hand to a third party.
WhisperBud takes the opposite approach. Everything runs on your Mac. Transcription happens locally with Whisper, and a local AI does the cleanup and formatting before pasting at your cursor. No audio leaves your machine.
It's live today for Mac (Apple Silicon) and free to start. If you've avoided dictation tools because you didn't want your voice going to the cloud, this is for you. I'd love your feedback, I'll be here all day. 🙏
Best,
Amit
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how does it actually learn the names and terms over time? like is it actively training on my speech or just storing some kind of custom vocabulary list locally
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@kemalcakandg84 So whenever you correct something, it will store that in its dictionary. And next time, it will produce the correct output.
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The on-device processing and fn key hold is such a clean choice, makes it feel built for power users who care about privacy without any extra friction.
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@grselmutiomwui Thanks Gursel. Please try out this software and let us know the feedback.
This is just amazing. The fact that the voice does not leave the machine gives me so much confidence to use it beyond formal apps and in my daily IMs and personal emails. Really amazing work team. Can't wait to get it for iPhone as well.
how does it actually learn the names and terms over time? like is it actively training on my speech or just storing some kind of custom vocabulary list locally
@kemalcakandg84 So whenever you correct something, it will store that in its dictionary. And next time, it will produce the correct output.
The on-device processing and fn key hold is such a clean choice, makes it feel built for power users who care about privacy without any extra friction.
@grselmutiomwui Thanks Gursel. Please try out this software and let us know the feedback.
Mira
This is just amazing. The fact that the voice does not leave the machine gives me so much confidence to use it beyond formal apps and in my daily IMs and personal emails.
Really amazing work team. Can't wait to get it for iPhone as well.