hyprwhspr is a native speech-to-text designed for Arch / Omarchy. It aims to provide fast, accurate and easy system-wide dictation.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Optimized for Arch Linux / Omarchy – Seamless integration with Omarchy / Hyprland & Waybar.
- Whisper-powered – State-of-the-art speech recognition via OpenAI’s Whisper.
- Cross-platform GPU support – Automatic detection and acceleration for NVIDIA (CUDA) / AMD (ROCm).
- Hot model loading – pywhispercpp backend keeps models in memory for fast transcription.
- Word overrides – Customize transcriptions, prompt and corrections.
- Run as user – Runs in user space, just sudo once for the installer.
Website: github.com/goodroot/hyprwhspr
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Developer: goodroot
License: MIT License
hyprwhspr is written in Python. Learn Python with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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