Press a key, speak naturally, and your words appear as text — instantly, privately, right on your device.
Free to start · No account · No cloud
From thought to text in seconds — no mouse, no copy-paste.
Hit the Fn key (or your custom shortcut) from any app. A subtle indicator shows you're recording.
Just talk normally. No need to pause between words or speak in any special way.
Hit the same key again to stop recording. Chirp immediately starts processing.
Within seconds, your text appears in your active window and is copied to clipboard.
The average person speaks at 150 words per minute but types at just 40. Chirp helps you capture ideas at the speed of thought.
Every time you dictate into a cloud-based app, your raw thoughts — medical notes, business ideas, private messages, passwords spoken aloud — get sent to servers you don't control. What happens to that data?
Cloud providers get hacked. When they do, your dictated thoughts — unfiltered, unedited — could be exposed to anyone.
Many voice services quietly use your audio to improve their models. Your private dictations become someone else's training data.
Human reviewers at major tech companies have been caught listening to user recordings. Your voice, your words, reviewed by strangers.
Chirp is different. Your voice never leaves your device. No servers, no uploads, no accounts. Just you and your words, staying exactly where they belong.
A full history of everything you've spoken — searchable, exportable, and stored entirely on your machine.
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Straight answers.
Unlike Siri or Google, Chirp processes everything on your device — nothing is sent to any server. It works offline, requires no account, and auto-pastes text directly into whatever app you're using.
No. Chirp works entirely offline. Once installed, it never needs an internet connection to transcribe your speech.
Yes, 100%. Your voice data never leaves your computer. There are no servers, no cloud, no accounts — just local processing on your machine.
After transcription, Chirp automatically types the text into whatever window is active — email, Slack, a document, anywhere. It's also copied to your clipboard.
Chirp uses state-of-the-art local speech recognition models. Accuracy is comparable to cloud-based services, and it continuously improves with updates.
What to know before choosing a voice-to-text tool
From leaked chat histories to exposed credit cards to confidential emails read by AI — real incidents show why your words are safer on your own device.
5 offline speech-to-text apps compared on privacy, accuracy, and price. See where Chirp stands against SuperWhisper, Otter, Dragon, and more.
Speaking is 3x faster than typing. Writers are using voice dictation to beat writer’s block and capture ideas the moment they strike.
