Chirp
Chirp is a Windows dictation app that runs fully locally using ParakeetV3 STT and is managed end-to-end with uv . Chirp does not require the ability to run executable files (like .exe) on Windows. It was designed so that if you're allowed to run Python on your machine, you can run Chirp.
Why ParakeetV3?
ParakeetV3 has indistinguishable accuracy from Whisper-large-V3 (multilingual WER 4.91 vs 5.05) but is 17x faster and only requires a CPU while Whisper models of comparable accuracy require GPU's.
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Goals
Provide fast, reliable, local-first dictation on Windows.
GPU not needed or wanted.
Corporate environment friendly - NO NEW EXECUTABLES (.exe) REQUIRED. If you can run python you can run chirp.
Features
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