# OpenWhispr/openwhispr

> Cross-platform desktop voice-to-text dictation app that transcribes speech locally (Whisper, NVIDIA Parakeet) or in the cloud and pastes text into any app. It also transcribes meetings, manages notes, and connects to AI assistants.

- Magnitude: 3.2 out of 10 — Steady
- Stars: 8,820 total · +24 stars today, ≈ 48 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Productivity & self-hosted · Language: JavaScript · License: MIT · Created: 2025-06-19 · Last push: 2026-09-29
- GitHub: https://github.com/OpenWhispr/openwhispr · Homepage: https://openwhispr.com · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/OpenWhispr/openwhispr

## Useful for

- Dictate text into any app via a global hotkey instead of typing
- Transcribe a Zoom or Teams meeting recording with speaker diarization
- Connect an AI assistant via MCP to manage notes and transcriptions

## Why it’s here

- 24 stars so far today, about 48 expected by the end of the day.
- Over the last two days the pace is 1.6× that of the previous week and a half.
- GitHub Trending JavaScript today: #10, +73 stars.
- About 14 forks a day — people are taking the code.
- Recent forks include notable developers: @slamj1 (490 followers).

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 1,087
- Issues and pull requests: 2,354
- Watchers: 19
- Average over the last week: 54 per day
- Usual pace: 70 per day
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 4
- Latest release: v1.10.2 (2026-09-15)

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-08-31 … 2026-09-29: 42, 49, 275, 275, 307, 156, 595, 211, 82, 73, 73, 59, 27, 54, 53, 48, 49, 26, 30, 32, 32, 38, 28, 42, 40, 23, 83, 71, 72, 24

## Spotted in now

- GitHub Trending JavaScript today: #10, +73 stars

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-09-29 13:28 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.