TypeWhisper
TypeWhisper is a macOS speech-to-text app for dictation, transcription, and text workflows with local processing and optional cloud add-ons.
What is TypeWhisper?
TypeWhisper is a speech-to-text app for macOS that helps you dictate text, transcribe files, and automate text-processing workflows across your everyday apps. It is designed for people who want fast voice input with a choice between on-device engines and optional cloud-based integrations. Common uses include writing messages and documents by voice, transcribing audio or video files, improving dictated text with prompts, and applying app-specific formatting rules. The app also includes transcription history, snippets, a personal dictionary, and automation options through local APIs and extensions. TypeWhisper supports multiple speech engines, including local options such as WhisperKit, Parakeet, and Apple Speech, so users can balance setup, language coverage, speed, and privacy for different tasks. Published by Marco Hillger, it is available for macOS as part of a broader TypeWhisper product family.
Key features
- Dictate text into other apps with a global push-to-talk workflow
- Transcribe audio and video files for notes, captions, or written records
- Choose between multiple speech engines for local or cloud-based transcription
- Apply workflows to polish, format, translate, or post-process transcribed text
- Use app-specific profiles to tailor insertion and formatting behavior
- Search transcription history and reuse saved snippets or dictionary entries
- Connect automations through local APIs and supported extensions
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Safety overview
Status: Mostly safe
TypeWhisper is a legitimate dictation app, and microphone and Accessibility access are normal for its main job of recording speech and inserting text into other apps. Because it can listen to audio you speak and place text where your cursor is active, use it thoughtfully in sensitive apps and review any optional cloud features or third-party add-ons before enabling them. If you prefer to keep voice data on your Mac, choose the local speech engines and limit cloud integrations to services you trust.
Recommendation: Keep TypeWhisper if you use voice dictation, transcription, or text workflows on your Mac. If you no longer use it, you can remove it like other apps, but expect dictation shortcuts, saved history, dictionaries, snippets, and related workflow features to stop working.
Common paths
/Applications/TypeWhisper.app
Support paths
~/Library/Application Support/TypeWhisper
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