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Local Whisper
Private dictation that never leaves your PC
Local Whisper is offline voice-to-text for Windows. Hold a hotkey, speak into any app — email, docs, Slack, code, or an AI prompt — and clean, punctuated text lands right where your cursor is. The speech engine runs entirely on your PC, so nothing is uploaded and no account is needed. It works with no internet, even in airplane mode. Your voice never leaves your machine. And it's a one-time purchase — no subscription, ever.
Hey Product Hunt 👋
We built Local Whisper because we were tired of a quiet trade-off nobody seemed to question: to turn your voice into text, you had to send it to someone else's server.
Every dictation tool we tried worked the same way, hold a key, talk, and your audio gets uploaded to the cloud to be transcribed. It's convenient until you think about what you're actually dictating: client details, half-finished ideas, code, things you'd never paste into a random web form. And it simply stops working the moment your Wi-Fi does.
So we set out to build the opposite. Local Whisper runs its speech engine entirely on your Windows PC. You hold a hotkey, speak into any app, email, Word, Slack, your editor, a ChatGPT or Claude prompt, and clean, punctuated text lands right where your cursor is. Nothing is uploaded. There's no account. It works on a plane, behind a firewall, in airplane mode. Your voice never leaves your machine, because architecturally it can't.
The part we're most proud of: it's a one-time purchase, not a subscription. You buy it once and own it. No monthly fee for something running on your own computer.
There's a 14-day free trial with no card and no sign-up, the best way to feel it is to install it, turn off your Wi-Fi, and watch it keep working.
We'd genuinely love your feedback, and we'll be here all day answering questions. What would make this a daily tool for you? 🙏
About Local Whisper on Product Hunt
“Private dictation that never leaves your PC”
Local Whisper was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 2 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #149 on the daily leaderboard. Local Whisper is offline voice-to-text for Windows. Hold a hotkey, speak into any app — email, docs, Slack, code, or an AI prompt — and clean, punctuated text lands right where your cursor is. The speech engine runs entirely on your PC, so nothing is uploaded and no account is needed. It works with no internet, even in airplane mode. Your voice never leaves your machine. And it's a one-time purchase — no subscription, ever.
On the analytics side, Local Whisper competes within Productivity, User Experience and Tech — topics that collectively have 1.7M followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Local Whisper performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Local Whisper?
Local Whisper was hunted by Sami Khan. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of Local Whisper including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
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