Murmure is a privacy-first, open-source speech-to-text application designed for fully local and private voice transcription. It leverages NVIDIA’s Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3 model to enable fast, on-device processing without requiring an internet connection or data collection.
Key Features:
Privacy-Focused: All processing occurs locally, ensuring no data leaves your device.
Multilingual Support: Offers transcription in 25 European languages, including English, French, German, Spanish, and more.
On-Device AI: Utilizes NVIDIA’s Parakeet model for efficient and low-latency speech recognition.
Local LLM Post-Processing: Enhances transcriptions through grammar correction and translation using local language models.
Cross-Platform Availability: Runs seamlessly on Windows, Linux, and macOS, ensuring broad accessibility.
Open Source: Built with transparency and customization in mind under the AGPL-3.0 license.
Audience & Benefit:
Ideal for writers, content creators, educators, developers integrating speech features into projects, and anyone prioritizing data privacy. Murmure enables hands-free note-taking, creative dictation, and seamless integration of speech-to-text functionality without compromising on privacy or performance.
Installation is straightforward via winget, making it accessible to a wide range of users across supported platforms.
README
Murmure
A privacy-first, open-source speech-to-text application that runs entirely on your machine, powered by a neural network via NVIDIA’s Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3 model for fast, local transcription. Murmure turns your voice into text with no internet connection and zero data collection, and supports 25 European languages.
List of supported languages
Bulgarian (bg), Croatian (hr), Czech (cs), Danish (da), Dutch (nl), English (en), Estonian (et), Finnish (fi), French (fr), German (de), Greek (el), Hungarian (hu), Italian (it), Latvian (lv), Lithuanian (lt), Maltese (mt), Polish (pl), Portuguese (pt), Romanian (ro), Slovak (sk), Slovenian (sl), Spanish (es), Swedish (sv), Russian (ru), Ukrainian (uk)
Usage
Murmure provides a clean and focused speech-to-text experience.
Once launched, simply start recording your voice. The text appears instantly, processed directly on your computer.
Typical use cases include:
Dictating to any AI prompt (Cursor, ChatGPT, Mistral, Claude code, etc.)
Writing notes hands-free
Capturing creative ideas or dictation
Post processing with a local LLM to translate, fix grammar, etc.
Because all computation is local, no network connection is required.
Installation
Windows (Official)
Multiple installation methods are available:
Using a .msi or setup.exe file:
Go to the release page and download the latest Murmure_x64.msi (or Murmure_x64-setup.exe).
Run the installer and follow the setup wizard.
Via WinGet:
Open the Console app via the Windows start menu.
Inside the console, paste winget install Kieirra.Murmure and follow the instructions. (--scope user will be available in the future)
> [!IMPORTANT]
> Murmure requires the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable to work on Windows. This package is present on most computers, but if you encounter the error message The code execution cannot proceed because MSVCP140.dll was not found. Reinstalling the program may fix this problem., download and install the package from the official page or use this direct download link: https://aka.ms/vc14/vc_redist.x64.exe
> ⚠️ Antivirus Notice : Some users reported that Kaspersky may block Murmure. If needed, please add Murmure as an exclusion in your antivirus settings.
Make it executable: chmod +x Murmure_amd64.AppImage
Run the AppImage.
> [!IMPORTANT]
> Murmure currently has limited support on Wayland-based distributions (except Fedora, which can fall back to X11 for some apps).
This appears to be related to Wayland’s sandbox restrictions for AppImages, the global shortcut to start recording will not work in this environment.
No workaround is available yet. See #28
MacOS (Official)
Download Murmure_aarch64_darwin.dmg from the release page
Drag Murmure to the Applications folder, then open it from there.
Murmure should ask for permissions to access your microphone and accessibility.
Restart Murmure for the permissions to take effect.
> [!IMPORTANT]
> Updating Murmure on macOS from 1.6.0: If you experience issues with Murmure and the shortcuts are not working, please do this exactly in this order, (and "Remove" means not only un-toggling but really removing completely Murmure from the list) :
Remove Murmure from System Settings → Privacy & Security → Accessibility.
Remove Murmure from System Settings → Privacy & Security → Input monitoring.
Install the last version
Launch Murmure.
Re-grant the Accessibility
Re-grant the Input monitoring permission
Restart Murmure.
it should work. It's a bit painful but you will not do it again with the next version, it's because 1.6.0 have the same name but is not detected as the same application... so macos is lost.
MacOS - Intel (Official)
Download Murmure_x86_64_darwin.dmg from the release page
Drag Murmure to the Applications folder, then open it from there.
Murmure should ask for permissions to access your microphone and accessibility.
Restart Murmure for the permissions to take effect.
> [!IMPORTANT]
> Updating Murmure on macOS from 1.6.0: If you experience issues with Murmure and the shortcuts are not working, please do this exactly in this order, (and "Remove" means not only un-toggling but really removing completely Murmure from the list) :
Remove Murmure from System Settings → Privacy & Security → Accessibility.
Remove Murmure from System Settings → Privacy & Security → Input monitoring.
Install the last version
Launch Murmure.
Re-grant the Accessibility
Re-grant the Input monitoring permission
Restart Murmure.
it should work. It's a bit painful but you will not do it again with the next version, it's because 1.6.0 have the same name but is not detected as the same application... so macos is lost.
(1.8.0) feat(rules): Add a “?” helper in the “Replacement text” field (explain natural language input and real line breaks instead of \n) https://github.com/Kieirra/murmure/pull/163
(1.8.0) feat(rules): Short text correction — auto-lowercase and remove trailing punctuation for short transcriptions (1-2 words)
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Support Development
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License
Murmure is free and open source, released under the GNU AGPL v3 License.
You can inspect, modify, and redistribute it freely as long as derivative works remain open source.
