Dabeer
A native macOS app for private work with speech: audio and video transcription, meeting recording and system-wide dictation. Everything runs locally — once a model is downloaded it works offline, and recordings and text never leave the device.
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Dabeer Basic — free
Speech recognition
Transcription of any audio/video macOS understands (mp3, wav, m4a, mp4, mov…), file by file
Whisper models from tiny to large-v3-turbo, a built-in download manager with resume and parallel streams, ~99 languages with auto-detection
The whisper.cpp engine with GPU (Metal) acceleration, lives in the menu bar
Per-segment timecodes
Dictation into any app
Global shortcut — double-tap the right ⌘ (or ⌥), text is inserted into the active field
Three modes: “Correct”, “Email”, “Prompt”; Escape cancels at any stage
Text and meetings
Punctuation and grammar correction by a local model (Qwen 2.5 / Gemma 2 / Llama 3.2, or the built-in Apple model)
“Ask the model about the text” — a question over the transcript
Meeting recording from the microphone and full transcription
History with search, export to .txt / .srt / .md, RU/EN interface, update checker — all offline
Dabeer Pro (in development)
Coming soon. Includes everything in Basic, plus:
Meetings: system audio capture (the other side of a call) mixed with the microphone, a player that jumps to a timecode
AI chat over documents — a multi-turn chat over attached documents and transcripts, semantic search
Output templates: business email, key points, minutes, ticket; EN/RU translation; personal-data (PII) masking
Batch processing of an entire folder and a Text → SRT subtitle generator
Flexible dictation: custom shortcuts with prompts; a “Prompts” tab to edit every system prompt; manual transcript editing
Auto minutes: decisions, tasks with owners, a follow-up email
Will be activated with a license key; like Basic — fully local, no cloud
Requires macOS 13+ (Apple Silicon). The apps are signed and notarized by Apple; updates are checked and downloaded right inside the app.