Free & open source speech-to-text
Press a shortcut. Speak naturally. Text appears where your cursor is — transcribed by on‑device AI that never phones home.
Echo works system-wide. Trigger it from any app, and your words appear right where your cursor is.
Q4 Planning Session
Maya Chen, Josh Rivera, Li Wei Zhang
The backend migration finished ahead of schedule.
Design team flagged two accessibility issues in the nav.
Zero bytes sent to any server. Zero accounts required. Zero telemetry. Everything happens on your hardware, in your RAM, under your control.
Configure shortcuts, pick your model, and review every transcription. Built with Rust and Tauri for a fast, minimal footprint.
We agreed to push the launch to March fifteenth to give the design team two extra weeks for the accessibility audit.
The backend migration finished ahead of schedule. We can start QA testing by Thursday.
Check if the user's session has been revoked in Redis before allowing the request through.
Hi Sarah, yes we're on track. The frontend should be done by Thursday.
From lightning-fast CPU models to high-accuracy GPU options. All run 100% locally — pick one and forget about it.
Fast, accurate, auto-detects language
All models are downloaded once and run entirely on your device.
Every feature works offline, out of the box. No accounts, no cloud, no compromises.
All processing happens on your device. No audio or text ever leaves your machine.
Configure hotkeys and push-to-talk to trigger transcription from any app.
Silero-based VAD filters silence, so you only transcribe speech.
Drag & drop audio or video files for batch transcription with progress tracking.
interview.mp3
24.3 MB
meeting.wav
156.7 MB
Whisper supports 100+ languages. Parakeet auto-detects for you.
Clean up transcriptions with LLM-powered refinement. Fix grammar and filler words.
Raw input
so basically the the team needs to uh finalize the the designs by friday
LLM post-processed
The team needs to finalize the designs by Friday.
Speak natural commands and Echo routes them to tools via LLM function calling.
Speak a command, Echo calls the tool
Native apps for macOS, Windows, and Linux. Built with Rust and Tauri.
No account. No tracking. No cloud. Free forever under the MIT license.
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