Show HN: TuxWhisper – Offline push-to-talk dictation for Linux, works on Wayland

Category: cli-tool

Tags: dictation, speech-to-text, linux, wayland, offline, whisper

Score: 6.3/10 (Innovation: 5, Technical: 6, Documentation: 8, Utility: 6)

TuxWhisper is an offline push-to-talk dictation tool for Linux that works on both X11 and Wayland, using the open Whisper model via faster-whisper and optional local LLM cleanup through Ollama. It fills a real gap for Linux users wanting a private, free alternative to commercial dictation apps like Wispr Flow and superwhisper, with thoughtful features like custom vocabulary, replacements, and transcript correction.

Target audience: linux desktop users, developers, writers, privacy-conscious users

Repository: https://github.com/ialmajai/tuxwhisper · Python · MIT · 3 stars

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