Hinglish speech to text
Hinglish meetings, written down in Roman letters.
Lipik is a free Mac app that turns a Hinglish call into a transcript and a short summary. It notices Hindi by itself, keeps Hindi words and people's names, and writes them in Roman letters. It runs on your Mac and works with Wi-Fi off once its models are downloaded.
Free and open source. Meeting notes need macOS 14.2 or later. New in Lipik 0.1.9.
What you get
A transcript of the whole call, with who said what, in the Roman letters people use for Hinglish on WhatsApp. English words stay as they are.
- Said in the call
- "Priya, client ka feedback aa gaya hai, Friday tak deck update karna hai."
- In the transcript
- Priya, client ka feedback aa gaya hai, Friday tak deck update karna hai.
How it works
- Lipik records your microphone and your Mac's sound, kept apart, so the transcript shows who said what. No bot joins the call.
- When a meeting mixes Hindi and English, Lipik notices by itself. The first time, it quietly downloads its Hinglish speech model (Qwen3-ASR 1.7B, about 2 GB, from Hugging Face) and redoes that meeting.
- Hindi words and people's names are kept, instead of turning into English-sounding words.
- Lipik's built-in clean-up model writes the Hindi lines in Roman letters and makes the summary. Without it, Hindi lines stay in Devanagari.
You can set the meeting language yourself in Settings, under Meetings, but you shouldn't need to. More on recording, speakers and summaries is on the meeting notes page.
Typing in Hinglish instead
To type Hinglish into a chat or an email as you speak, use Hinglish dictation: hold fn and talk. It works differently and needs macOS 26 or later. The setup is on the Hinglish voice typing page.
Why Roman letters
Most people write Hinglish in chats and work messages in Roman letters, not Devanagari, so a transcript in Roman letters is easier to search and to paste. If you want Hindi in Devanagari, see Hindi voice typing on Mac.
How well it works
Hinglish is harder than English. A Hindi word can come out with a different spelling, or a word can be missed. For Indian-accented English, Lipik's default model got 8.5% of words wrong on 150 test clips; see the benchmark. If something comes out wrong, you can report it on GitHub.
What goes online
- one-time downloads from Hugging Face: the speech model (731 MB), the clean-up model (2.5 or 5 GB), the speaker model (33 MB) and, the first time a meeting sounds Hinglish, the Hinglish speech model (about 2 GB)
After that, Hinglish meetings work with Wi-Fi off. Your recordings and transcripts stay on your Mac. The full list is on the free dictation page.
Questions
Is there a free Hinglish speech to text app for Mac?
Yes. Lipik is free and open source under the MIT licence. It turns Hinglish meetings into transcripts in Roman letters, on your Mac.
Do I have to pick Hinglish before each meeting?
No. Lipik notices when a meeting mixes Hindi and English and switches by itself. You can set the meeting language yourself in Settings, under Meetings, but you shouldn't need to.
Are names and Hindi words kept?
Yes. Lipik's Hinglish speech model keeps Hindi words and people's names, instead of turning them into English-sounding words.
Why is the transcript in Devanagari?
The Roman letters are written by Lipik's built-in clean-up model. If it isn't downloaded yet, Hindi lines stay in Devanagari. Download it in Settings, under Meetings.
Does it work offline?
Yes, once the models are on your Mac. The Hinglish speech model is a one-time download of about 2 GB, the first time a meeting sounds Hinglish. After that, Hinglish transcripts work with Wi-Fi off.
Which macOS version do I need?
Meeting notes, Hinglish included, need macOS 14.2 or later on a Mac with Apple silicon (M1 or later).
Does a bot join my call?
No. Lipik records your microphone and your Mac's sound on your Mac. Nobody new joins the meeting, and the recordings stay on your Mac.
Get Lipik for Mac.
Free, for Macs with Apple silicon. Open the download, drag Lipik into Applications, and hold fn to start.
curl -fsSL
https://lipik.pages.dev/install.sh | sh
Pasting the line above into Terminal installs Lipik with no security warning. If you use the download instead, macOS asks you to confirm the first time: go to System Settings, then Privacy & Security, and click Open Anyway. Install help