Free, open-source audio & video transcription. Local. Private. Beautiful.
Download · Features · SpeakDock (Pro Tool) · YouTube
- Local & Private — 100% offline transcription, no cloud, no API keys, no telemetry
- Word-Level Timestamps — Click any word to jump to that point in the audio
- Interactive Transcript — Real-time word highlighting during playback
- Multiple Export Formats — SRT, VTT, TXT, JSON, Markdown
- Model Manager — Download Whisper models (tiny → large-v3) with progress bars
- Transcription History — SQLite-backed history with search and stats
- Beautiful UI — Dark/light mode, glassmorphism, smooth animations
- 99 Languages — Full Whisper language support
- Built-in Audio Player — Play, pause, seek, speed control (0.5x–2x)
Audio: MP3, WAV, M4A, OGG, FLAC, WMA, AAC
- Tauri v2 — Lightweight desktop framework (Rust + Web)
- React 19 + TypeScript — Frontend
- Tailwind CSS v4 — Styling
- whisper-rs — OpenAI Whisper.cpp speech recognition
- Symphonia — Pure Rust audio decoding
- SQLite — Transcription history
- Framer Motion — Animations
- Lucide React — Icons
- Node.js 18+
- Rust 1.70+
- Tauri v2 prerequisites
# Install dependencies
npm install
# Run in development mode
npm run tauri dev
# Build for production
npm run tauri build- Go to Settings → Models and download a Whisper model (start with "base" for good quality/speed balance)
- Go to Transcribe and drop an audio file
- Click Start Transcription
- View, edit, search, and export your transcript
| Model | Size | Speed | Quality |
|---|---|---|---|
| tiny | 75 MB | Fastest | Basic |
| base | 142 MB | Fast | Good |
| small | 466 MB | Medium | Better |
| medium | 1.5 GB | Slow | Great |
| large-v3 | 3.1 GB | Slowest | Best |
| large-v3-turbo | 1.6 GB | Fast | Great |
WhisperDesk is the free, open-source companion to SpeakDock — our commercial real-time dictation and voice command tool.
WhisperDesk = File transcription (open source, free) SpeakDock = Real-time dictation, AI polish, meeting recording, voice commands (commercial)
Liaqat Eagle
MIT — free for personal and commercial use. See LICENSE.
Contributions welcome! See CONTRIBUTING.md for details.