Looks interesting. Why does it need a GUI at all?
Because local AI models run well on a GPU, better than on a CPU
Handy – Free open source speech-to-text app
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#12Use it daily. Looks and works great.
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#13There's a slightly awkward naming overlap with an existing product.
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#14Looks interesting. Why does it need a GUI at all?
Ah, that was a typo: you meant "GPU" (Graphics Processing Unit, not "GUI" which of course is Graphical User Interface) since that is listed in the system requirements. Explained implicitly by an existing comment, thanks!
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#15There's a slightly awkward naming overlap with an existing product.
Which one? I did a quick search but that didn't turn up anything so perhaps it's a partial word overlap or something.
I did find the projects "user-facing" home page [1] which was nice. I found it rather hard to find a link from that to the code on GitHub, which was surprising.
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#16There's a slightly awkward naming overlap with an existing product.
This is a slightly German-centric comment.
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#17Has anyone compared this with https://github.com/HeroTools/open-whispr already? From the description they seem very similar.
Handy first release was June 2025, OpenWhispr a month later. Handy has ~11k GitHub stars, OpenWhispr has ~730.
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#18I just set this up today. I had Whispering app set up on my Windows computer, but it really wasn't working well on my Ubuntu computer that I just set up. I found Handy randomly. It was the last app I needed to go Linux full-time. Thank you!
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#19There's a slightly awkward naming overlap with an existing product.
Which one? I did a quick search but that didn't turn up anything so perhaps it's a partial word overlap or something. I did find the projects "user-facing" home page [1] which was nice. I found it rather hard to find a link from that to the code on GitHub, which was surprising. [1]: https://handy.computer/
It's the German word for smart phone / mobile phone
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#20A question because I'm not using speech-to-text, but find it intriguing (especially since it's now possible to do locally and for free).
How have your computing habits changed as a result of having this? When do you typically use this instead of typing on the keyboard?