Purr lives in your Mac's menu bar. Hold Right Option, talk, let go, and what you said is typed into whatever app you're in: Slack, Mail, Notes, a code editor, a form in your browser.
The speech recognition runs on your Mac, using NVIDIA's Parakeet for English or Whisper for about 100 languages. Your audio never leaves the machine, there's no account, and once the models have downloaded it works with Wi-Fi off.
Smart Typing puts the words into the app while you're still speaking.
Meeting notes record your mic and your Mac's audio, label who said what, and save a transcript and a summary as Markdown, in English and 27 more languages.
Voice Edit rewrites text you've selected. Hold Control-Option-E and say something like "change Friday to Thursday". Apple Intelligence or Gemma 4 does the rewrite, also on your Mac.
Purr is free and MIT-licensed. It needs an Apple silicon Mac with macOS 14 or later.
Website: https://purr.arunbrahma.com
Features
- Dictation into any app: hold Right Option, talk, let go
- Speech recognition runs on your Mac and works offline
- Smart Typing puts words in the app while you speak
- Meeting notes with speaker labels and a summary, saved as Markdown
- Voice Edit rewrites selected text when you say the change
- English plus about 100 languages with Whisper
- Custom vocabulary for names and jargon, and voice commands
- Free and MIT-licensed, with no account and no telemetry
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