LocalWisp is an offline voice dictation utility for Windows. It allows you to dictate text directly into any active application by holding a shortcut, with all audio processing occurring entirely on your local CPU.
- Privacy First: 100% offline; no audio or text data is ever transmitted over the internet.
- CPU Inference: Optimized for multi-core processors using
faster-whisperandint8quantization. - High Accuracy: Powered by the
large-v3-turbomodel andsilero-vadfor robust speech detection. - Minimalist HUD: A semi-transparent overlay provides real-time status feedback (Recording/Processing).
- Direct Injection: Automatically pastes the transcribed text at your current cursor position.
The utility is currently tuned for a specific performance profile based on the developer's hardware:
- Reference CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5700G (8 Cores / 16 Threads).
- Thread Management: Hardcoded to 8 CPU threads to ensure fast processing without system lag.
- Memory: 32 GB RAM recommended for the
large-v3-turbomodel footprint.
LocalWisp is an open project. While built for a specific setup, future iterations aim to:
- Implement automatic hardware detection to dynamically set thread counts.
- Improve flexibility for different model sizes based on available system resources.
- We welcome collaborative efforts to improve hardware abstraction and performance.
- Install dependencies:
pip install -r requirements.txt. - Setup models:
python setup_models.py. - Run: Use
Launch_LocalWisp.batto start the tool in the background. - Operation: Hold
Win + Ctrlto record. Release the keys to transcribe and paste.
Copyright (c) 2026 ATTrindade and LocalWisp Contributors. Distributed under the MIT License.