OpenASR docs

OpenASR is a local-first speech-to-text project — a native macOS desktop app and a Rust CLI / local HTTP API, both built on the same public Apache-2.0 open core at github.com/QuintinShaw/openasr.

Use the desktop app Zero-setup, everything in the UI.

Use the CLI Same engine, scriptable.

The product posture is deliberately conservative:

native is the default executable backend. It runs local ggml-backed .oasr packs and is fail-closed by stage rather than fabricating output. A separate mock backend exists only as a hidden, opt-in stub for CI and plumbing tests — it isn’t part of the public CLI surface.
Normal CLI and API flows do not auto-download runtime binaries or model artifacts without a visible consent prompt.
Public model downloads are explicit through openasr pull and generated from the signed model-registry/catalog.json.
OpenASR does not phone home. There is no telemetry.

More docs

CLI reference for the full command surface and examples.
Server API for the local OpenAI-compatible transcription subset.
Models for the current model catalog.
Project status for what’s shipped and what’s separate.