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WhisperBud
On-device dictation for Mac that formats as you speak
WhisperBud is a native macOS dictation app. Hold fn key and talk anywhere on your Mac, and rambling speech becomes clear, formatted text in a blink, processed entirely on your device. Your audio never leaves your machine. It works in every app, email, cursor, claude code, Slack, notes, and pastes right at your cursor. Not a raw transcript: fillers are removed, punctuation added, and it learns the names and terms you use.
Hey everyone 👋 I'm the maker of WhisperBud.
There are some great dictation tools out there now, and most of them format your speech well. But nearly all of them run in the cloud: your audio, and everything you dictate, gets sent to server. That's fine for a grocery list, but not for client work, passwords, medical notes, code, or anything you'd rather not hand to a third party.
WhisperBud takes the opposite approach. Everything runs on your Mac. Transcription happens locally with Whisper, and a local AI does the cleanup and formatting before pasting at your cursor. No audio leaves your machine.
It's live today for Mac (Apple Silicon) and free to start. If you've avoided dictation tools because you didn't want your voice going to the cloud, this is for you. I'd love your feedback, I'll be here all day. 🙏
Best,
Amit
how does it actually learn the names and terms over time? like is it actively training on my speech or just storing some kind of custom vocabulary list locally
About WhisperBud on Product Hunt
“On-device dictation for Mac that formats as you speak”
WhisperBud was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 4 upvotes and 2 comments, placing #160 on the daily leaderboard. WhisperBud is a native macOS dictation app. Hold fn key and talk anywhere on your Mac, and rambling speech becomes clear, formatted text in a blink, processed entirely on your device. Your audio never leaves your machine. It works in every app, email, cursor, claude code, Slack, notes, and pastes right at your cursor. Not a raw transcript: fillers are removed, punctuation added, and it learns the names and terms you use.
WhisperBud was featured in Productivity (655.7k followers), Developer Tools (515.4k followers) and Audio (2.1k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 223.4k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted WhisperBud?
WhisperBud was hunted by Amit Kumar. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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