Your voice stays yours.
hyprwhspr is built on a simple premise: a tool that listens to you should never report back about you.
Read the code.
hyprwhspr is fully open source under the MIT license. Every line that touches your microphone, processes your audio, and injects text into your applications is public and auditable. There are no compiled blobs, no obfuscated routines, no black boxes.
If you want to verify exactly what happens to your audio — from the moment you press the hotkey to the moment text appears — you can. That's not a promise. It's a property of the code.
Browse the source on GitHub ↗No company. No incentives.
hyprwhspr is built and maintained by a single developer. There is no company behind it. No investors. No growth targets. No business model that depends on your data.
The tool exists because it's useful and because building it was interesting. That's the whole story. There is no roadmap item that reads "monetise user data" because there is no one to write that roadmap and nothing to gain from it.
Local means local.
When you use a local backend — Parakeet, Whisper, onnx-asr, Cohere Transcribe — your audio is processed entirely on your own hardware. It is never sent to a server. It is never stored. It does not leave your machine.
hyprwhspr has no telemetry, no analytics, no crash reporting, and no network calls of any kind during normal operation. The service runs as a local systemd process. It has no reason to phone home and no place to phone home to.
A note on cloud backends
hyprwhspr optionally supports cloud transcription APIs — OpenAI, Groq, Cohere, ElevenLabs, and any OpenAI-compatible endpoint. When you use a cloud backend, your audio is sent to that provider's servers and subject to their privacy policies.
Cloud backends are strictly opt-in. They require you to manually configure an API key. The default installation uses local models only. If you choose to use a cloud backend, you are making a deliberate choice with full knowledge of what that means — not being silently enrolled in anything.
That's it. No legalese, because there's nothing to obscure. No disclaimers, because there's no liability to limit. Just a tool that works, respects your privacy by design, and lets you verify every word of that claim.