Apps similar to Kaldi include Vibe Transcribe, which is free and open source. Other options are FUTO Voice Input, Whisper, MacWhisper and EnviousWispr. You're spoiled for choice with Audio Transcription Tools like Kaldi: we list more than 25 alternatives for Mac, Windows, Linux, iPhone and iPad.
Kekoso is a menu bar app for macOS that turns speech into text without sending audio anywhere. Press a hotkey, talk, release, and the text is pasted into whatever field you were typing in.
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NotchLive is a macOS menu bar app that displays real-time AI-powered captions and translations directly in your MacBook's notch. It uses on-device Whisper AI (via CoreML) for speech recognition and Apple Translation for real-time translation — nothing ever leaves your Mac.
SaidVault is a privacy-first macOS transcription app that runs locally on Apple Silicon. It transcribes audio and video files, records voice notes, captures system audio for meetings or video playback, supports Whisper and Parakeet models, and exports to PDF, TXT, Markdown, SRT, and VTT.
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