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MetaWhisp listens for the language as well as the words. Dictate a note in Spanish, answer a colleague in German, write to family in Russian: each dictation is recognised in the language you actually spoke, with nothing to switch in between. On the Free plan it all happens on your Mac.
Detection is on for new installs. Pin a language only if you want to.
Detected: Ukrainian
Whisper works out the language from what you say, so going from English to French is simply your next dictation.
Always dictate in one language? Pin it under Language in Settings: English, Russian, Spanish, French, German, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Italian or Ukrainian. Every other language is recognised through detection.
On the Free plan one Whisper large-v3 model on your Mac covers all of them, offline once it is downloaded. With Pro, the cloud model detects the language as well.
For multilingual speech to text on a Mac, MetaWhisp uses OpenAI’s Whisper, a single speech model trained on many languages at once. On new installs the language is detected automatically each time you dictate: MetaWhisp passes no language to the model, and Whisper identifies it from the audio, then writes the text in that language and script. That makes switching free: one dictation can be English and the next Japanese, and each lands in the app you are using. If you only ever speak one language, you can pin it under Language in Settings, which offers eleven choices. On the Free plan the model runs on your Mac, so every language works offline once the model is downloaded; Pro’s cloud transcription detects the language too. Accuracy differs from language to language, and OpenAI publishes the figures for each one.
Whisper’s list, in the order OpenAI keeps it.
English, Chinese, German, Spanish, Russian, Korean, French, Japanese, Portuguese, Turkish, Polish, Catalan, Dutch, Arabic, Swedish, Italian, Indonesian, Hindi, Finnish, Vietnamese, Hebrew, Ukrainian, Greek, Malay, Czech, Romanian, Danish, Hungarian, Tamil, Norwegian, Thai, Urdu, Croatian, Bulgarian, Lithuanian, Latin, Maori, Malayalam, Welsh, Slovak, Telugu, Persian, Latvian, Bengali, Serbian, Azerbaijani, Slovenian, Kannada, Estonian, Macedonian, Breton, Basque, Icelandic, Armenian, Nepali, Mongolian, Bosnian, Kazakh, Albanian, Swahili, Galician, Marathi, Punjabi, Sinhala, Khmer, Shona, Yoruba, Somali, Afrikaans, Occitan, Georgian, Belarusian, Tajik, Sindhi, Gujarati, Amharic, Yiddish, Lao, Uzbek, Faroese, Haitian Creole, Pashto, Turkmen, Nynorsk, Maltese, Sanskrit, Luxembourgish, Myanmar, Tibetan, Tagalog, Malagasy, Assamese, Tatar, Hawaiian, Lingala, Hausa, Bashkir, Javanese, Sundanese, and Cantonese, which Whisper large-v3 added.
Source: whisper/tokenizer.py. To have your words come out in another language, see voice translation.
The 99 languages of OpenAI’s Whisper, from English, Spanish and Chinese to Welsh, Swahili and Tagalog, and Cantonese, which Whisper large-v3 added. The full list is on this page.
No. New installs detect the language every time you dictate, so you can write an email in English and the next message in Spanish. If you always speak one language, you can pin it under Language in Settings.
Eleven: English, Russian, Spanish, French, German, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Italian and Ukrainian. Every other language works through detection.
It depends on the language: Whisper is strongest where it had the most training audio, and OpenAI publishes its error rate for each language in the Whisper repository. The quickest test is your own voice: dictate a paragraph and read what comes back.
Yes. On the Free plan one Whisper model on your Mac handles all of them, with no internet once it is downloaded. With Pro, the cloud model detects the language too.
Yes, with a separate key: tap Right ⌥ instead of Right ⌘ and your words are pasted in the language you chose, one of 11. Translating takes an AI model, which can be a free local one.
Free for Mac. One model, every language, on your Mac.
Download MetaWhispMetaWhisp is a free, open-source voice-to-text app for macOS that also takes meeting notes without a bot, remembers what you said and turns it into tasks. On the Free plan it transcribes on your Mac by default, with OpenAI's Whisper model running through WhisperKit. Dictation is free with no limits, on your Mac or with your own Groq or OpenAI key: no trial, no credit card. Optional Pro ($7.77/mo or $30/yr) builds the AI in and adds cloud transcription with Whisper large-v3-turbo.
Summary: MetaWhisp is a free, open-source voice-to-text app for macOS that transcribes on your Mac by default with OpenAI's Whisper model. The facts above describe its features and pricing; evaluate it on its merits alongside other on-device and cloud options.