Mimir

Offline voice-to-text for macOS.
Speak, friend, and enter.

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✨ Features

• 🔒 100% Offline — Your audio never leaves your machine. No cloud, no tracking, no analytics.
• 🎯 Two ASR Engines — NVIDIA Parakeet (state-of-the-art, 25 languages) and OpenAI Whisper. Both run locally.
• ⌨️ Global Hotkey — Press your shortcut in any app, speak, and text appears at your cursor.
• 🎙️ Wake Word — Say "Mimir, start recording" — hands-free dictation.
• 📁 File Transcription — Drop audio/video files (WAV, MP3, FLAC, OGG, MP4) and get text in seconds.
• 🤖 MCP Server — Connect Mimir to Claude Desktop, Cursor, or any MCP-compatible AI agent.
• ⚡ Built with Rust — Fast, lightweight, optimized for Apple Silicon.

📦 Download

Windows & Linux — coming soon.

🏗️ Architecture

┌─────────────────┐     ┌──────────────┐     ┌─────────────────┐
│                 │     │              │     │                 │
│  Global Hotkey  ├────►│              │     │  Parakeet ASR   │
│                 │     │              ├────►│  (ONNX Runtime) │
│  Wake Word      ├────►│    Mimir     │     │                 │
│                 │     │   (Rust)     │     ├─────────────────┤
│  File Drop      ├────►│              │     │                 │
│                 │     │              ├────►│  Whisper        │
│  MCP Server     ├────►│              │     │  (Local)        │
│                 │     │              │     │                 │
└─────────────────┘     └──────────────┘     └─────────────────┘
     Input               Tauri + CLI            ASR Engines

🤖 MCP Integration

Mimir provides a built-in MCP server for AI tool integration:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mimir": {
      "command": "mimir",
      "args": ["mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Connect it to Claude Desktop, Cursor, or any MCP-compatible client. Transcribe audio right from your AI conversations.

🗺️ Roadmap

Mimir is currently in early access. We're actively fixing bugs and polishing the experience.

• macOS (Apple Silicon)
• Parakeet & Whisper engines
• Global hotkey & wake word
• MCP server
• Auto-updater
• Windows support
• Linux support
• Open source release 🎉

Open source is coming. We're stabilizing the codebase and squashing bugs first. Once the core is solid, we'll open everything up. Stay tuned — star the repo to get notified!

🌐 Website

Visit stensmir.github.io/mimir for more info, screenshots, and download links.

📬 Feedback

Found a bug? Have a feature request? Leave feedback — help us make Mimir better.

Star History

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