Ghost Pepper
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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.
Features
Properties
- Privacy focused
- Local-First
- Customizable
Features
- No Tracking
- Ad-free
- Works Offline
- No registration required
- Global hotkey
- Local AI
- Apple Silicon support
- Support for Hotkeys
- Speech to text
- Sits in the MenuBar
- AI-Powered
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Recent activities
- POX added Audio Transcription as a feature to Ghost Pepper
POX added Ghost Pepper as alternative to Vibe Transcribe, OpenWhispr, Voxtral and FUTO Voice Input- POX added Ghost Pepper
Ghost Pepper information
Developed by
Matt Hartman Licensing
Open Source and Free product.Written in
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- English
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- 123 Forks
- 29 Open Issues
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What is Ghost Pepper?
100% local hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOS. Hold Control to record, release to transcribe and paste. No cloud APIs, no data leaves your machine.
Features:
- Hold Control to talk — release to transcribe and paste into any text field
- Runs entirely on your Mac — models run locally via Apple Silicon, nothing is sent anywhere
- Smart cleanup — local LLM removes filler words and handles self-corrections
- Menu bar app — lives in your menu bar, no dock icon, launches at login
- Customizable — edit the cleanup prompt, pick your mic, toggle features on/off
Ghost Pepper uses open-source models that run entirely on your Mac. Models download automatically and are cached locally.