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peteonrails/voxtype

Voice-to-text with push-to-talk for Wayland compositors

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# Voxtype

[![Voxtype - Voice to Text for Linux](website/images/og-preview.png)](https://voxtype.io)

**[voxtype.io](https://voxtype.io)**

Voice-to-text for Linux. 9-11× realtime on your CPU. Local by default.

Hold a hotkey (default: ScrollLock) while speaking, release to transcribe and output the text at your cursor position. Voxtype runs Cohere Transcribe (#1 on the Open ASR Leaderboard) faster than realtime on a plain Zen 4 CPU. Parakeet, Whisper, and five more engines if you want them. No cloud, no subscription, no telemetry.

## Features

### Speed and engines

- **Cohere Transcribe at 9-11× realtime — on your CPU.** Quantized to 1.5 GB (q4f16). Punctuation, capitalization, and inverse text normalization out of the box. Sits at #1 on the Open ASR Leaderboard. *(New in 0.7.0)*
- **Parakeet on AMD and NVIDIA GPUs.** MIGraphX 7.2 for Radeon, separate CUDA 12 and CUDA 13 binaries for every NVIDIA driver generation, Vulkan for Whisper across vendors. *(MIGraphX new in 0.7.0)*
- **Text processing built in.** Spoken punctuation (`"comma"` → `,`), per-user replacement tables for common mistranscriptions, and an optional post-processing pipe through any LLM or shell script. Fix domain terms, drop filler words, polish grammar — all without leaving voxtype.
- **Dynamic per-engine model loading.** Configure all 7 engines, pay memory only for the active one. Models load on first use and unload when idle.
- **Seven transcription engines.** Whisper, Parakeet, Moonshine, SenseVoice, Paraformer, Dolphin, Omnilingual. Switch with `voxtype configure` or one config line. CJK and 1600+ languages covered by the multilingual engines.
- **Meeting mode.** Continuous transcription with chunked processing, speaker attribution, and export to Markdown, JSON, SRT, or VTT.

### Native Linux integration

- **Hyprland, Niri, Sway, River, GNOME, KDE.** Compositor keybindings everywhere, evdev fallback for X11, Wayland-first typing via wtype with full CJK support. Falls back through dotool → ydotool → clipboard if any layer is unavailable.
- **Pauses your music.** Auto-pauses Spotify, Plasma media players, anything that speaks MPRIS the moment you start dictating. Resumes on release.
- **Floating waveform OSD.** Matches your swayosd band by default — same vertical position as volume and brightness — so the level meter sits where you already look for system feedback.
- **Interactive TUI configure.** `voxtype configure` (also surfaces in Walker / fuzzel / rofi) edits every option in `~/.config/voxtype/config.toml` for you — no hand-editing TOML. Auto-downloads missing models, swaps GPU binaries via pkexec, restarts the daemon when needed.
- **Push-to-talk or toggle.** Hold to record, or press once to start/stop. Optional audio cues when recording starts/stops.

### Trust

- **Local by default. No cloud. No subscription. No telemetry.** Optional remote Whisper servers when you want them. Your audio stays on your machine until you choose otherwise.
- **MIT licensed.** AUR (`voxtype`, `voxtype-bin`, plus `voxtype-bin-rc` for testers who want pre-release builds — see [docs/INSTALL.md](docs/INSTALL.md#arch-linux)), `.deb`, `.rpm`, Homebrew on macOS. Signed release binaries from a reproducible Docker pipeline.

## Quick Start

Most users should install a [pre-built package](docs/INSTALL.md). The steps below are for building from source.

```bash
# 1. Install build dependencies
# Fedora:
sudo dnf install rust cargo alsa-lib-devel clang-devel cmake pkgconf
# Arch:
sudo pacman -S rustup alsa-lib clang cmake pkgconf
# Debian/Ubuntu:
sudo apt install cargo libasound2-dev libclang-dev cmake pkg-config

# 2. Build
cargo build --release

# 3. Install typing backend (Wayland)
# Fedora:
sudo dnf install wtype
# Arch:
sudo pacman -S wtype
# Ubuntu:
sudo apt install wtype

# 4. Download whisper model
./target/release/voxtype setup --download

# 5. Add keybinding to your compositor
# See "Compositor Keybindings" section below

# 6. Run
./target/release/voxtype
```

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