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Show HN: Wayland Speech-to-Text Tool

by artur_roszczyk on 6/27/25, 12:00 PM with 2 comments

I vibe-coded a speech-to-text tool for Wayland that works for me. You trigger it with a keybind, speak into your mic, and it transcribes using OpenAI Whisper or Google STT (local is coming), then either types it directly into your active text field or saves it to the clipboard.

It uses PipeWire for audio capture and works signal-driven, so there's no background process running. Just on-demand transcription when you need it. I've tested it on Niri and it should work on Hyprland, though I haven't tested GNOME or KDE yet.

This was a one day Rust project and probably has some bugs since I just implemented it. It's definitely rough around the edges, but it serves its purpose for quick dictation. I'm open to feedback and input from anyone who tries it out.

  • by KetoManx64 on 6/28/25, 4:11 AM

    What makes it only compatible with Wayland and not work with x11 and it's successor XLibre? Very cool tool though, I was just thinking about something similar to this the other week after seeing a post about Apple Mac implementation of this very functionality.