whisper-writer

Why we included this project

WhisperWriter is a small dictation app that turns a single hotkey into a full speech-to-text pipeline. By default, pressing ctrl+shift+space starts recording from your microphone, and the transcribed text lands directly in the active window, so it works with any app you're typing into. Four recording modes let you choose between continuous listening, stopping after a pause, toggling with the hotkey, or holding the key to record, which covers most hands-free workflows. Transcription can run entirely offline through faster-whisper or hit the OpenAI API when you'd rather offload the compute. A small status window shows the current stage, and all settings live in a GUI rather than a config file. For developers, the codebase is also a straightforward example of wiring Whisper into a PyQt5 desktop application.