# goodroot/hyprwhspr

Native speech-to-text for Linux - Fast, accurate, private, and hackable system-wide dictation

Repository: https://github.com/goodroot/hyprwhspr
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/hyprwhspr
Homepage: https://hyprwhspr.com
Language: Python
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: archlinux, dictation, hyprland, omarchy, speech-to-text, waybar, wayland, whisper, parakeet, ai, cachyos, debian, fedora, opensuse, ubuntu, elevenlabs, translation, cohere-ai, noctalia, x11
Last push: 2026-08-31T16:48:01+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 85/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 100, release rhythm 100, longevity 26
- inputs: {"age_days": 371, "days_push": 2, "days_rel": 2, "gap_med": 3, "n_releases_24m": 56}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1182, forks 94 (observed 2026-09-01T02:14:01.868448+00:00)

## What it is
hyprwhspr is a native Linux system-wide speech-to-text dictation application supporting local models (Whisper, Parakeet, Cohere) with optional cloud APIs. It runs on Wayland and X11, auto-pasting transcribed text into any active window with hotkey-driven recording modes.

## Use cases
- dictate text system-wide on linux
- convert speech to text offline privately
- voice type into any application on wayland
- transcribe voice notes with whisper locally
- translate spoken foreign language to english text
- push-to-talk dictation while coding
- run speech recognition on cpu without gpu

## When to choose
- you want private, offline dictation on Linux with local models
- you use Hyprland, Sway, KDE, or GNOME on Wayland or X11
- you want hotkey-driven paste-anywhere dictation with visual feedback
- you have an NVIDIA GPU for fast local inference or need efficient CPU fallback

## When to avoid
- you need speech-to-text on macOS or Windows
- you want a GUI transcription tool for audio files rather than live dictation
- you need a library or API to embed speech recognition in your own software

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: speech-recognition, nlp, llm-inference, gui
- domain: speech-processing, developer-tools, artificial-intelligence
- platform: cli
- tags: dictation, whisper, wayland, hyprland, voice-to-text, system-wide-dictation, onnx-asr, parakeet, audio-ducking, waybar, linux, desktop

## Member repositories
- goodroot/hyprwhspr (main) score 85

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-09-01T02:14:01.868448+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T06:27:05.457239+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/goodroot/hyprwhspr (fetched 2026-09-01T02:14:01.868448+00:00, sha c9ff697469d8)
  - homepage: https://hyprwhspr.com (fetched 2026-08-29T12:33:28.508335+00:00, sha c6f4ff695e67)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.