matthartman/ghost-pepper
100% private on-device voice models for speech-to-text and meeting transcription on macOS observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
78/100
- Activity 94
- Release rhythm 95
- Longevity 11
Flags: young no_license
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 1.0
- age_days: 166
- days_rel: 37
- days_push: 37
- n_releases_24m: 21
Adoption not part of the score
3140 stars · 187 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
A free, open-source macOS menu bar app providing fully on-device speech-to-text dictation and meeting transcription using local Whisper, Parakeet, and Qwen ASR models. It includes a local LLM cleanup step that removes filler words and saves meeting transcripts and AI summaries as markdown, with no data leaving the machine.
Use cases
- transcribe voice to text locally on mac without cloud
- private meeting transcription with summaries
- hold a hotkey to dictate into any app
- offline dictation for apple silicon mac
- convert meeting recordings to markdown notes
- speech to text in 50+ languages on device
When to choose
- you need private, on-device dictation with no cloud APIs
- you want meeting transcripts and AI summaries stored locally as markdown
- you're on an Apple Silicon Mac running macOS 14+
- you want multilingual speech recognition without sending audio anywhere
When to avoid
- you need Windows or Linux support
- you're on an Intel Mac or macOS 13 or older
- you need cloud-scale batch transcription of large audio archives
- you need speaker diarization or team collaboration features
Facets
application · maturity active
speech-recognition nlp llm-inference audio-processing speech-processing privacy developer-tools apple-ecosystem dictation meeting-transcription on-device-ai whisper menu-bar-app apple-silicon local-llm macos desktop swift
1 source
- readme: https://github.com/matthartman/ghost-pepper · fetched 2026-08-28 · 53b18a85a923
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| matthartman/ghost-pepper | main | 78 |
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markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="matthartman/ghost-pepper")
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