Handy – Free open-source speech-to-text app written in Rust

(handy.computer)

43 points | by Leftium 4 hours ago ago

17 comments

  • b_e_n_t_o_n 5 minutes ago

    Why does the title specify the language used when it's not even mentioned on the home page?

  • rgbrgb 12 minutes ago

    this is a great landing page. I downloaded.

    great onboarding too, using it now.

    Very handy, thanks!

  • Leftium 4 hours ago

    Read the creator's description in the original Show HN: https://hw.leftium.com/#/item/44302416

  • jonahx 40 minutes ago

    How good will this local model be compared to, say, your iphone builtin STT?

  • hu3 2 hours ago

    Very cool. Uses whiper small uder the hood.

    https://github.com/openai/whisper

    • geor9e an hour ago

      nvidia parakeet v3 was the default out of the box and it works surprisingly well

      it offers all the different sizes of openai models too

  • majorchord 2 hours ago

    TypeScript 53.9% Rust 44.9%

    FYI

    • yoavm 5 minutes ago

      The README is very clear about it:

      Frontend: React + TypeScript with Tailwind CSS for the settings UI Backend: Rust for system integration, audio processing, and ML inference

    • typpilol 2 hours ago

      Lmao. At least it's typescript and not JavaScript!

  • areeba_iqbal 2 hours ago

    That's great, nice to see more and more projects of Machine learning being written in rust

  • ranger_danger 2 hours ago

    Anyone know of the opposite? A really easy-to-use text-to-speech program that is cross-platform?

    • geor9e an hour ago

      I've tried a lot of them, and the best I found so far is Edge browsers built in microsoft (natural) voices, which I call via javascript or the browsers read aloud function.

    • jszymborski 2 hours ago

      I've used Speech Note, which works well for STT and TTS.

  • roscas 3 hours ago

    It downloads the model at first execution and also checks versions in github.

    That is ok for what is brings. Nice program. Very "handy".