Ghost Pepper: Hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOS. Local, powered by WhisperKit and local LLM cleanup.
- Ghost Pepper is an open-source macOS utility that transcribes speech by holding the Control key, then pastes the cleaned-up text wherever your cursor sits, no cloud involved.
- It uses WhisperKit for transcription and a local LLM to fix up punctuation and phrasing, meaning your audio never leaves the machine.
- The project is early-stage and self-described as rough, but for journalists who dictate notes or quotes, a fully local hold-to-talk tool with no subscription or data exposure is a genuinely useful category.
