Whisperstream
Local AI dictation for Windows. $29 once. No subscription.
Whisperstream is a local AI dictation app for Windows. Pay once, voice stays on your machine. Press a push-to-talk hotkey, speak, and your transcribed words paste into whatever window has focus.
Transcription runs on your CPU via NVIDIA Parakeet TDT v3 (ONNX Runtime). No cloud upload, no third-party API, no model trained on your voice. There's nothing to send because there's nowhere to send it.
$29 one-time, lifetime updates. No subscription, no per-minute fees, no usage caps. Subscription cloud dictation services charge $100-150 per year and process your speech on their servers; Whisperstream charges $29 forever and processes it on yours.
Key features:
- 100% local, on-CPU transcription. No network calls during dictation.
- $29 one-time purchase. Lifetime updates. 30-day money-back guarantee.
- Free trial on first install, no account required.
- Push-to-talk hotkey or toggle mode. Bind to any key.
- Custom word replacements for jargon, names, code, acronyms.
- Auto-lowers other audio while you dictate.
Built for Windows builders dictating into Cursor, Claude Code, VS Code, and JetBrains IDEs, privacy-critical professionals (legal, healthcare, defense, NDA-bound engineering), accessibility and RSI users, writers, and academics.
Transcription runs on your CPU via NVIDIA Parakeet TDT v3 (ONNX Runtime). No cloud upload, no third-party API, no model trained on your voice. There's nothing to send because there's nowhere to send it.
$29 one-time, lifetime updates. No subscription, no per-minute fees, no usage caps. Subscription cloud dictation services charge $100-150 per year and process your speech on their servers; Whisperstream charges $29 forever and processes it on yours.
Key features:
- 100% local, on-CPU transcription. No network calls during dictation.
- $29 one-time purchase. Lifetime updates. 30-day money-back guarantee.
- Free trial on first install, no account required.
- Push-to-talk hotkey or toggle mode. Bind to any key.
- Custom word replacements for jargon, names, code, acronyms.
- Auto-lowers other audio while you dictate.
Built for Windows builders dictating into Cursor, Claude Code, VS Code, and JetBrains IDEs, privacy-critical professionals (legal, healthcare, defense, NDA-bound engineering), accessibility and RSI users, writers, and academics.