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sharukeshalagiri / Whisperer

Self-hosted, privacy-first desktop dictation and meeting notes. Electron + FastAPI + on-device ONNX speech recognition.

Why this job: says: speech recognition, dictation; topics: whisper, speech-to-text, dictation

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The sign-in screen with a server URL field and Continue without signing in
A meeting open on its Summary tab with Resume and Ask anything
The Transforms screen with saved transform cards
The Inference step of onboarding in Local mode
Local mode: a spoken sentence is transcribed on this computer and pasted into a separate mail window, then appears in History and Insights
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What it does

  • System-wide dictation. Hold to talk or toggle hands-free. The text is inserted into the focused app, with a clipboard fallback where insertion is not available, such as Wayland. Insertion is verified end to end on Linux X11 and Windows with
  • Polish, dictionary and snippets. A personal dictionary fixes names and jargon, and snippets expand saved text. Polish, which cleans up each dictation, needs a language model you configure, such as Ollama.
  • Transforms. Apply a saved instruction to selected text in any app, then review the before and after. Transforms
  • Read-only MCP endpoint. Let an MCP client on your machine list, read and ask about your meetings, signed in through your identity provider. Connect your AI app
  • Insights. Words dictated, words per minute, streaks and a daily heat map, computed by the server from numbers only.

Get started

make setup
# install locked desktop dependencies and build the app
make desktop
# build and launch Electron
Maintenance
Active
Last commit yesterday
Stars
15
+15 this week
Licence
MIT
Allows business use
Downloads for
None listed
No release files
Latest version
1 releases
None marked latest
Built with
TypeScript
51% of the code

Is it looked after?

Contributors
2
Last 90 days
Issues
0% closed
4 still open
Pull requests
16 merged
1 waiting
Releases
1
1 in the last year

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Languages

  • TypeScript 51%
  • Python 33%
  • JavaScript 10%
  • CSS 5%

Topics

  • dictation
  • electron
  • fastapi
  • mcp
  • onnx
  • onnxruntime
  • parakeet
  • privacy
  • python
  • react
  • self-hosted
  • speech-to-text

Project record

  • JobSpeech and audio
  • StatusNew to our list
  • Commits84
  • Forks1
  • Watching0
  • CreatedNov 8, 2026
  • First seen by usNov 12, 2026
  • CheckedNov 14, 2026

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