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Yap - Voice Dictation

Free, offline voice dictation for macOS, Windows & Linux — hold a key, speak, and your words appear at the cursor. Local Whisper, learns your vocabulary, no subscription. A Wispr Flow alternative.

Cost / License

  • Free
  • Open Source (MIT)

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  • Mac
  • Windows
  • Linux
  • Python
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  1.  Privacy focused
  2.  Local-First
  3.  AI-Powered

Features

  1.  No Tracking
  2.  No registration required
  3.  Works Offline
  4.  Ad-free
  5.  Local AI
  6.  Speech Recognition
  7.  Speech to text
  8.  Push to talk
  9.  Python-based
  10.  Voice dictation

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What is Yap - Voice Dictation?

Hold a key, talk, and what you said lands at the cursor: your editor, browser, a chat box, the terminal, wherever you're typing. It's a free, open-source alternative to Wispr Flow and SuperWhisper, and it runs offline by default.

What you get:

  • It stays private. Transcription runs locally with Whisper, so there's no account, no cloud, no telemetry, and nothing screenshots your screen. Audio only leaves your machine if you deliberately switch to a cloud engine.
  • No word caps, no subscription. Wispr's free tier stops at 2,000 words a week and then runs $12–15/mo. yap is MIT-licensed, with no meter and nothing to upsell.
  • Same on every OS. macOS, Windows and Linux share one config file.
  • Quick. Faster than real time on CPU with the base model, near-instant with a GPU or a cloud key.
  • Your keys, your endpoints. Point it at OpenAI, Groq, or a Whisper server you host yourself. There's an optional LLM cleanup pass too, against any OpenAI-compatible API.