Ghost Pepper – 100% local hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOS

Ghost Pepper is a free macOS app that provides private speech-to-text functionality by running entirely on local Apple Silicon processors without sending data to external servers. Users hold the Control key to record speech and release it to automatically transcribe and paste text into any application, with built-in AI cleanup that removes filler words and handles corrections. The app offers multiple speech recognition models including Whisper variants and supports over 25 languages as a privacy-focused alternative to cloud-based transcription services.