Whisper-quality transcription that never leaves your Mac. Dictate into any app, drop audio or video files, identify speakers, and refine with AI — privately, on-device.
MurmurAI is a privacy-first speech to text app for Mac. It runs Whisper, Parakeet, and Apple Speech locally so your audio never leaves the machine. Use it to transcribe meetings and files, or as a system-wide dictation app that types into Slack, Mail, and anything else with a text field.
Identify speakers, export SRT subtitles, refine wording with custom prompts, and chat with saved transcripts. Start free, or buy Pro once. Read more about on-device transcription.
Powerful features designed for professionals, creators, and anyone who needs accurate transcription.
Choose from WhisperKit, Parakeet, or Apple Speech. Each optimized for different use cases.
Automatically identify who's speaking in multi-person recordings. Perfect for meetings and interviews.
Fine-tune speaker segments, merge or split sections, and assign names for perfect speaker attribution.
Ask questions and get insights from your transcripts using AI. Supports Ollama and OpenAI.
Clean up transcripts with AI. Fix grammar, formatting, and use custom prompts for your workflow.
Press a hotkey anywhere, speak, and insert transcribed text into any app. Optional hold to talk — hold to listen, release to stop.
Drop audio or video files to transcribe. Supports MP3, WAV, M4A, MP4, MOV and more.
Export as SRT subtitles, VTT captions, or plain text. Ready for video editing or sharing.
Create unlimited custom prompts for AI refinement, assign them to specific apps, and keep one as the Default.
Different engines for different needs. All running 100% locally on your Mac.
OpenAI's Whisper optimized for Apple Silicon. Includes Large V3 Turbo v2 and compressed variants for the best speed-accuracy balance.
NVIDIA's state-of-the-art ASR with automatic punctuation and capitalization. Choose the multilingual 0.6B model or the compact 110M for fast English transcription.
Native macOS recognition. No downloads needed, works instantly.
Start free, upgrade when you need more power.
Download MurmurAI today and experience the power of on-device transcription. Start for free.