good fit for people who want speech tools without handing recordings to a cloud service. the tradeoff is obvious too: local models mean chunky downloads and a more involved setup than the average menu bar app.

Ghost Pepper
100% private on-device voice models for speech-to-text and meeting transcription on macOS
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Ghost Pepper is a macOS app offering private, on-device voice models for speech-to-text transcription and meeting transcription without sending data to the cloud. It features local AI models for transcription, text cleanup, meeting notes with AI-generated summaries, and stores all data locally. It supports multiple languages and runs on Apple Silicon Macs.
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