I really like https://handy.computer for this.
I'm looking for something to transcribe .m4a recordings that I make for my genealogy efforts. Do you know of anything that can take a file as input?
Whisper.cpp will do it, and you can also use Parakeet v2, though I haven't tried running that one specifically.
If you're familiar with CLI you could use ffmpeg to extract audio then pipe the audio into whatever transcriber
I use ffmpeg a lot, but I'm curious if anyone can recommend a transcribe tool.
Another vote for handy. I am using with Parakeet and its pretty good.
Now its mostly about models getting better.
Thanks for the Handy info. (New to me)
Haven’t used Parakeet, but noting it too.
Commenting here so I come back to it.
MacWhisper has been around for a while and it says no data leaves your machine.
Requiring microphone access is a dealbreaker. I transcribe audio files I’ve recorded on other equipment. You don’t need my mic for that.
I clicked hoping it would leverage whisper’s translation capabilities as well, since MacWhisper does not do that (it leverages Apple’s subpar built in translation). It doesn’t do that either.
(Maybe you’re using this for dictation? That’s a very specific subset of transcription. I’d suggest using a name that leans into that.)
I thought i had tried this but no it’s a massively crowded app name. I’ll check this out soon, but honestly this one has been great.
https://github.com/Starmel/OpenSuperWhisper
Though it seems like the dev stopped work on it
That's a very similar name as https://github.com/OpenWhispr/openwhispr
Which is a voice to text app as well.
Pretty nice to have menu bar integration. For macOS 26+, why not use the already-installed on-device speech transcription models?
I didn’t realize this was a thing: will try it out :)
how does it compare to wispr flow?
which beats the pants off android or iphone transcription...
the video on github is not working