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Your voice. Your words. Your computer.

Turn recordings and live speech into text with a desktop app designed to feel effortless. Your audio stays on your device by default.

Apple Silicon · signed & notarized · auto-updates Windows 10+ · 64-bit x64 · signed · auto-updates
OpenASR Desktop showing the completed local transcription
Availability

Built for the desktop

The macOS and Windows apps are available now. A Linux desktop app is in development — the CLI and server already run on Linux.

macOSAvailable now · Apple Silicon
WindowsAvailable now · x64
LinuxA native Linux desktop app is planned. Meanwhile run the open-source CLI on Linux, or pull the Docker image for a local server.

OpenASR Desktop for Windows

Transcribe files, dictate into any app, and run live captions — the same features, now on Windows. Requires a 64-bit x64 machine running Windows 10 or later. The installer is signed by Caelum Inc. via Azure Trusted Signing; if SmartScreen shows an "unrecognized app" prompt on first run, click "More info → Run anyway" — this is normal for a newly signed identity and resolves as reputation builds. See Troubleshooting for details.

OpenASR for developersCLI binaries, source builds, and automation tools

Prebuilt binary

fastest

Download a tar.gz from GitHub Releasesfor macOS, Linux, and Windows (plus CUDA/ROCm/Vulkan/musl variants where published), verify against the release's SHA256SUMS, extract, and put openasr on your PATH.

tar -xzf openasr-*-aarch64-apple-darwin.tar.gz
./openasr --help

Docker

servers

Published CPU (amd64 + arm64) and CUDA images track each core release on Docker Hub. Model packs install into a /data volume; the server never auto-pulls.

docker pull quintinshaw/openasr:latest
docker run --rm -p 8080:8080 -v openasr-data:/data quintinshaw/openasr:latest

Build from source

Needs cmake, a C/C++ toolchain, Rust 1.95.0 (pinned by rust-toolchain.toml), and on Linux libasound2-dev — the ggml backend is a git submodule compiled from source.

git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/QuintinShaw/openasr.git
cd openasr && cargo build --release -p openasr-cli