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Whispering by Epicenter recently launched!
Founded by Braden Wong
Hey everyone! 👋 Meet Braden, he's excited to introduce Whispering—a fully open-source, local-first speech-to-text app, and the first app in the Epicenter ecosystem. You can give it a star, install it here, and start using it today.
Braden uses Whispering multiple hours daily for voice coding, writing, and thinking out loud. He churned from Wispr Flow and Superwhisper after he built it.
The Whisper founder thinks the ergonomics are quite delightful, and hopes you will too!
You use a transcription app, but you have no idea what happens to your data.
They’re not open-source. They might call themselves “local” or say “inference stays on device”—but you still can’t see the code. It’s a black box, and for all you know, you’re the product.
Your voice recordings might be sitting on their servers and sold to other providers. You're locked into their ecosystem. When they pivot, get acquired, or shut down, your workflow will break.
Many “AI transcription” startups are just API or local inference wrappers with subscription pricing. You speak into their app, they send your audio to a transcription API like Whisper, then charge you monthly for what you could run yourself. Some run locally, but none Braden found were open-source with the UX he needed.
Truly free and open-source transcription software that matches (or surpasses) the ergonomics of paid, closed-software alternatives. The founder thinks Whispering is now at that stage.
There are many other applications in the transcription landscape. Whispering offers some notable features:
Fundamental tools shouldn’t require trusting a black box. And they shouldn’t charge you rent for something you could run yourself.
At Whispering, they believe productivity apps should be open-source and transparent with your data, and they want to destroy business models with open-source alternatives.
These alternatives will need to match Whispering feature-by-feature, have a great UX, and eventually, be built on top of their shared memory layer.
Whispering is the first app in the Epicenter ecosystem: local-first, open-source tools built on top of a shared memory of plain text and SQLite. They hope to replace siloed, data-driven tools with local-first alternatives that share a single, user-owned memory layer.
They also hope to support many more offline models over time, giving you maximum flexibility in how and where your data is processed.
They’re not stopping at transcription. While most transcription apps tinker with static dictionaries or custom word lists, the eventual goal with Epicenter is to leverage that shared memory. They could connect transcription to everything you think, write, and build, all within a trustworthy, local-first environment.
Whispering would pick up your common phrases, technical terms, and more. Over time, you create custom transformation pipelines that adapt to your writing style, your voice, and your world.
Try it, and let the Epicenter team know what’s up. They hope Whispering becomes a part of your workflow!
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