Whisper

There is no working voice dictation tool for Linux. The only one I could find was soupawhisper, and it didn't work on Void Linux. So I built my own.

This is a fork of soupawhisper, rewritten to support Void Linux, Runit, and PulseAudio/PipeWire. The original used push-to-talk; I rewrote the interaction to toggle recording instead, which feels much more natural for longer dictation. Press a hotkey to start recording, press again to stop — it transcribes your speech and types it directly into the active window.

Uses faster-whisper for high-performance local inference — no cloud API, no latency, no privacy concerns. Transcribed text is copied to clipboard and auto-typed via xdotool. Desktop notifications keep you informed of recording status.
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