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Get OpenASR for your Mac.

A native macOS app for local speech-to-text — signed, notarized, and updated automatically. Your audio never leaves the machine by default.

macOS

OpenASR Desktop

Transcribe files, dictate into any app, and run live captions — all locally.

Download for macOS
Apple Silicon · signed & notarized · auto-updates
Windows

Coming soon

A native Windows build is in the works. No date yet — we ship it when it's genuinely ready.

Coming soon
Linux

Coming soon

A native Linux build is planned. In the meantime the open-source CLI already runs on Linux.

Coming soon
Next

Installed. Now what?

01

Open the app

Launch OpenASR Desktop and follow the short onboarding — it downloads a model and checks your mic.

02

Transcribe

Drop in an audio file for a subtitle-grade transcript, or dictate straight into any app.

03

Go live

Turn on live captions to see speech transcribed in real time, entirely on-device.

Read the docs → Browse models

Prebuilt binary

fastest

Download a tar.gz from GitHub Releases (macOS arm64 and Linux x86_64 today), verify against the release's SHA256SUMS, extract, and put openasr on your PATH.

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

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
Read the CLI quickstart →