Show HN: Open-source customizable AI voice dictation built on Pipecat

Post by kstonekuan » Mon, Dec 15, 2025, 12:14 PM UTC

bryanwhl wrote: post #10

Does this work on macos?

Post by kstonekuan » Tue, Dec 16, 2025, 3:21 PM UTC

james_marks wrote: post #12

Looks interesting! How are you feeling about Tauri as you take this to a larger audience? I’ve dabbled with it and thought it was compelling, but not supported a release.

Post by kstonekuan » Wed, Dec 17, 2025, 7:41 AM UTC

james_marks wrote: post #14

kstonekuan wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I started off trying Electron, but I am liking Tauri more. It seems Rust has better support for system-level integration, like controlling audio and keys. Are there other alternatives you are exploring?

Yeah, Tauri struck me as much more powerful and lighter than Electron. My hobby project with Tauri died when I managed to set an OS-wide shortcut, which is amazing. Except it broke many other apps, and I just never got back to it.

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Dec 23, 2025, 3:14 PM UTC

kstonekuan wrote: post #4

grayhatter wrote: post #3

I don't think I'd call anything that only works with a proprietary Internet hosted LLM (one you need an account to use) open-source. This is less voice dictation software, and much more a shim to [popular LLM provider]

Hey, sorry if the examples given were not robust, but because this is built on Pipecat, you can actually very easily swap to a local LLM if you prefer that, and the project is already set up to allow you to do that via environment variables. The integration to set up the WebRTC connection, get the voice dictation working seamlessly from anywhere, and input into any app took a long time to build out, and that's why I…