Show HN: Sys2txt – transcribe system audio to text in the CLI with a local LLM

Category: cli-tool

Tags: audio, transcription, whisper, cli, speech-to-text

Score: 5.5/10 (Innovation: 4, Technical: 5, Documentation: 7, Utility: 6)

sys2txt is a command-line tool that records system audio via PulseAudio/PipeWire and transcribes it locally using Whisper. It supports both on-demand and live segmented transcription with multiple Whisper engines (faster-whisper, openai-whisper, whisper.cpp) and auto-selects the best available.

Target audience: backend devs, power users, researchers, accessibility advocates

Repository: https://Joe-Heffer.github.io/sys2txt/ · Python · MIT

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