Murmur is a privacy-focused, local-first dictation tool for clinicians and healthcare leaders who need speed without sending their voice to the cloud. Hold one hotkey, speak naturally, and place clean text wherever your cursor is. No account. No hospital IT workaround required.
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Physician burnout dropped from 51.9% to 38.8% in just a single month of using ambient AI dictation tools.
See the Research DataTurn repetitive typing into a fast voice workflow you can use in your own notes, browser, email, documents, and practice software.
Typing forces you to edit yourself down. Speaking lets you capture the context, corrections, and nuance that usually disappear before your fingers catch up.
Every keystroke interrupts your thought. By the time you finish typing, the note is shorter, flatter, and missing the details you had in your head.
You can speak naturally, self-correct mid-sentence, and preserve the useful context that makes the final text more complete and more like you.
Works wherever you can type
Murmur removes the friction between what you are thinking and the text field in front of you.
Hold Right Option, speak, and release. Your text appears where your cursor already is.
Use hotkey templates for the recurring formats you write all the time: notes, letters, summaries, handoffs, and custom prompts.
Map spoken phrases to the exact text you want: addresses, signatures, names, medication spellings, or any phrase you repeat often.
Use Murmur in any text field you control. It is built for your own machine, not locked-down hospital desktops that block third-party apps.
Define your own formatting instructions for the kind of writing you do. Keep it plain text, clinical, personal, or highly structured.
Built with Rust and Tauri for a fast desktop workflow. Core dictation stays local so your voice is not sent to a cloud transcription service.
From speaking to usable text without breaking your flow.
Click into your notes, email, browser, document, or practice software. No switching to Murmur.
Press and hold Right Option. A discreet floating Pill indicator appears. Start speaking naturally.
Release the key. Murmur transcribes locally and injects the result directly where your cursor is.
Keep moving through your work instead of stopping to clean up every sentence by hand.
Murmur is designed for privacy-focused clinical work on computers you are allowed to manage, not as a bypass for locked-down hospital systems.
Local AI means the speech model runs on your Mac or PC instead of sending recordings to a cloud transcription service. That matters for clinicians because voice notes can include sensitive patient context, private practice details, and half-formed thoughts that should stay under your control.
Use Murmur where you are allowed to install desktop software and manage the data you type or dictate. It is not meant to bypass hospital IT controls.
Professionals replacing repetitive typing with a faster voice workflow.
I finish my notes before I even leave the exam room. That has never happened in 14 years of practice. The Smart Templates for SOAP notes alone are worth it.
I wanted something private that felt invisible. The hotkey workflow is the difference. I speak, release, and keep going.
I set up my clinic address, my sign-off, and my three most common diagnoses in vocabulary. I dictate probably 60% less actual text now. Borderline unbelievable.
Start with the trial, then choose the license that fits how often you use Murmur.
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Own your Murmur v2 license outright. Simple, predictable, and built for daily use.
Give Me Back My Evenings (Lifetime)Murmur's core dictation path processes microphone audio on-device, and your voice does not go to the cloud. Optional AI formatting can be kept local with Ollama, or connected to an external provider only when your workflow allows transcript text to leave your computer.
No. We detest medical software subscriptions. You pay once for a lifetime license, and the software is yours to keep, including all future v2.x updates.
Murmur works in normal text fields where your computer allows keyboard input and accessibility-based text injection. It is a good fit for personal machines, home-office setups, and private-practice computers you control.
Probably not. Murmur is built for privacy-focused clinicians and healthcare leaders using hardware they are allowed to manage, like a computer in a home office or private clinic. It requires installation and permissions, so it will not work on locked-down hospital carts or shared machines where IT blocks third-party apps.
Dragon Medical is built around enterprise licensing and heavier setup. Murmur runs its core Whisper dictation locally and keeps the workflow simple: hold a hotkey, speak, release, and keep moving.
Yes for core dictation. Whisper transcription, Smart Templates, and Personal Vocabulary run locally. Optional external cloud formatting requires internet; local Ollama formatting stays on your Mac if you have a local model installed.
Murmur is optimized for Apple Silicon (M1, M2, M3, M4 chips). It runs on macOS 10.15 Catalina and later. Intel Macs are supported but may experience slower transcription.
On an M-series Mac, most short-to-medium dictations (under 60 seconds) complete and paste in under 1.5 seconds from when you release the hotkey. The Pill UI indicator lets you know Murmur is processing.
Download Murmur for your own Mac or PC, then turn repetitive typing into a private voice workflow.
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