Microphone to Text App is a simple desktop application built with Python and Tkinter that records audio from your microphone, transcribes it into text using OpenAI Whisper, and provides convenient options to save and copy the transcription.
The app is ideal for quick note-taking, meeting transcription, or speech-to-text workflows — all from your local machine.
- 🎤 Live Microphone Recording – Capture audio directly from your system microphone.
- 📝 Accurate Transcription – Uses the Whisper large model for high-accuracy speech-to-text.
- 💾 Automatic Saving – Transcriptions are saved as timestamped
.txtfiles in atextwhisperfolder. - 📋 Clipboard Copy – Instantly copy transcribed text to your clipboard.
- 🖥 Simple GUI – User-friendly interface powered by Tkinter.
You will need:
- Python 3.9+
- OpenAI Whisper
- sounddevice
- numpy
- pyperclip
- Tkinter (included in most Python installations)
- Clone this repository:
git clone https://github.com/yourusername/microphone-to-text-app.git cd microphone-to-text-app