A free, secure, and easy automatic transcription service, that delivers astounding transcriptions in minutes. Made in Denmark for journalists and anyone else.
Murmure Alternatives
Murmure is described as 'A privacy-first, open-source speech-to-text application that runs entirely on your machine, powered by a neural network via NVIDIA’s Parakeet model for fast, local transcription. Murmure turns your voice into text with no internet connection and zero data collection, and' and is a audio transcription tool in the audio & music category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Murmure for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Web-based, Windows, iPhone and Linux apps. The best Murmure alternative is Handy STT, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Murmure are Vibe Transcribe, Voxtral, FUTO Voice Input and OpenWhispr.
Alternatives list
Txtplay.ai delivers AI-powered real-time captioning, transcription, and translation for TV and online streaming. It integrates with encoders like PixelPower and Evertz, plus OVPs such as Kaltura and Brightcove. Cloud, hybrid, or on-prem — accessible and multilingual.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Online
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
A straightforward macOS application that allows the user to use different Whisper services (OpenAI API, Runpod Faster Whisper) from your macOS desktop. You have the flexibility to use your own API key, ensuring that you only incur charges for the services you actively use.
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Jotr is a free Mac transcription app for audio and video files. It helps Mac users turn recordings into local transcripts, timestamped review sessions, notes, highlights, summaries, captions, and clean exports.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
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Speech to Note is a cutting-edge AI-driven tool that seamlessly converts your spoken words into a concise and informative summary.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Online
Private, on-device audio transcription for macOS. Your audio never leaves your Mac — no cloud uploads, no subscriptions, no data collection. Real-time ASR with Qwen3-ASR, MLX Whisper & Whisper, plus system-wide dictation, all 100% local.
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VoxTap is 100% offline voice-to-text for macOS that types at your cursor in any app: Terminal, VS Code, Slack, everywhere.
On-device AI. No cloud, no subscription, no signup. Just press a hotkey and talk.
$29 one-time. 45-minute free trial.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
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Batch transcribe audio files or movie files into text with OpenAI's Whisper AI Model. With an embed subtitles editor to preview the transcription result segment by segment. All transcribe operation is processing in local machine. Keep your privacy safe.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
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Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Platforms
- Linux
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