Talk to your AI.
Hear it talk back.
Hands-free.

Yes. Open Whisperer is free and open source under the MIT license — no subscriptions, no accounts, no API keys.

No. Speech-to-text (WhisperKit) and text-to-speech (Kokoro and Supertonic-3) both run locally on your Mac. There are no cloud APIs and nothing leaves your machine.

Spoken replies work with Claude Code, Codex, Antigravity, and Pi. The Agents tab lists all four with their own Connect button, so you can connect as many as you use — Connect wires up a speak tool (a drop-in extension for Pi) so every response is read aloud. Dictation works with all your apps: your voice types into any macOS app.

An Apple Silicon Mac (M-series) running macOS. It's fully native — no Python. On first launch it downloads the on-device Whisper and Kokoro models and runs them in-process on the Apple Neural Engine.

Three ways: Press-to-Talk, Hold-to-Talk, or fully hands-free — say "initiate" to start, stay silent to submit, and say "hold on" to interrupt.

2.0.3 sets the app up for you. A four-pane sheet on first launch covers permissions, dictation, voice and connecting your coding agent, and carries model-download progress the whole way through — including the ~1.5 GB speech model, which used to download with nothing on screen explaining the wait. It's skippable at every step and reopenable any time from the menubar → Setup…, and the agent pane detects which agents you actually have and lists those first.

Personas are no longer a secret. Picking a voice has always attached a national character to every spoken reply, and nothing in the app ever said so. Now the voice picker names each language group's persona, the selected one is spelled out underneath, and Settings → Voice → Persona lets you pick a different one — it defaults to Automatic, the voice's own character, so nothing changes unless you change it. Multilingual (Supertonic) voices get no persona automatically, so this is currently the only way to give them any. Type is larger throughout the windows; the dictation overlay is deliberately untouched.

2.0.1 lets you pick how the app looks. A Themes card in Settings → General offers six palettes: Champagne (the new default — cream with champagne gold and a sky-blue tint), Cream (the original look), Light and Dark (neutral greys on white or near-black), Pastel (soft blue and rose), and Sky (soft sky blue with a champagne accent).

Your choice applies everywhere — Settings, the window chrome and the dictation overlay all follow it. The five fixed themes hold their look whatever macOS is set to; Cream is the one theme that keeps tracking your Mac's light/dark setting. The menu bar icon deliberately stays neutral and follows macOS, so it stays legible against a light or dark menu bar.

2.0.0 speaks languages Kokoro has no voice for. A second on-device engine, Supertonic-3, handles Dutch, German, Polish, Russian and Ukrainian, while Kokoro keeps its nine languages and stays the default — the app routes on the voice you pick, and your agent is nudged to write its spoken reply in that voice's language.

It also brings a real tabbed Settings window (Dictation · Voice · Agents · Advanced, plus General) and an Agents tab where all four agents connect at once. Dictation runs on WhisperKit large-v3 turbo — stronger noise robustness, ~99 languages, and clean punctuation and casing — with your custom vocabulary working at both layers, biasing the model as it listens and correcting the finished transcript. Still fully native, streaming, and 100% local.