Ghost Pepper is described as 'Hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOS. 100% local, powered by WhisperKit and local LLM cleanup. Hold Control to record, release to transcribe and paste' and is a audio transcription tool in the audio & music category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Ghost Pepper for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Web-based, Windows, Linux and iPhone apps. The best Ghost Pepper alternative is Handy STT, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Ghost Pepper are Vibe Transcribe, Voxtral, FUTO Voice Input and OpenWhispr.