Speech to Text: Omarchy bar plugin for dictation

A bar widget plus a stdlib-only Python daemon. Press a language's key to
record, press it again to stop: the text is pasted at the cursor (or handed
to the default coding agent with a second key). While recording the bar
shows a waveform (yellow while the microphone opens, green while listening)
and the words as they are recognised; the recording is transcribed at every
pause, so stopping only transcribes the last phrase. Every recording and its
text are kept in a searchable history with playback, copy, paste and delete.

Uses Omarchy's own dictation engine (voxtype, local Whisper) by default and
downloads any model a language needs by itself; whisper.cpp or a custom
command can be picked instead. Key bindings are applied at runtime through
Hyprland's Lua API and never touch a key something else already uses.

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+# Speech to Text
+
+Dictation for Omarchy: press a key, talk, press it again, and the words are pasted where your cursor is. A live waveform and the words as they are recognised show in the bar while you talk; every recording is kept with its text so you can play it back, copy or paste it again.
+
+> Tested only on **Omarchy 4** (Arch Linux, Hyprland, omarchy-shell).
+
+## What you get
+
+- **One key per language** (default: `SUPER ALT D` for English; set your own in Settings). Press to start, press again to stop and paste. Esc discards.
+- **+ Return** per language: also press Return after pasting (for chat boxes and prompts).
+- **Ask your agent**: a second key per language hands the text to Omarchy's default coding agent (`omarchy default agent`) instead of pasting it.
+- **Live waveform and live text** in the bar: yellow while the microphone connects, green while it listens; the bar goes back to the icon the moment the text is pasted.
+- **Stop is instant**: the recording is transcribed at every pause while you talk, so only the last phrase is left when you stop.
+- **History** of every recording (text + audio) with play, copy, paste, paste-and-send and delete, searchable, in the bar popup.
+- **Languages** picked from Whisper's list; the model a language needs is downloaded by itself the first time (about 150 MB for the default model; the bar shows the progress). English-only models are swapped for the multilingual one.
+- **Engine**: Omarchy's own dictation engine, [voxtype](https://github.com/peteonrails/voxtype) (local Whisper), by default, so there is nothing new to install. whisper.cpp (`whisper-cli`) and any custom command are also supported (Settings → Advanced).
+- **Safe key bindings**: a key that anything else already uses is refused, never taken over.
+- Local only. Nothing leaves your machine.
+
+## Install
+
+```bash
+omarchy plugin add https://github.com/alanfortlink/speech-to-text.git --enable
+```
+
+That is all: the microphone icon appears in the bar, the daemon starts with the shell and applies the key bindings itself (nothing in `~/.config/hypr` is touched).
+
+Optional: `~/.config/omarchy/plugins/alanfortlink.speech-to-text/install.sh` puts the `stt` command on your PATH. From a checkout anywhere else, `./install.sh` also links the checkout into the plugins directory (handy for development).
+
+Requires `voxtype` (Omarchy ships it: `omarchy-voxtype-install`), `pipewire`, `wtype`, `wl-clipboard`, `curl`. All present on a stock Omarchy.
+
+## Use
+
+- Press the language's key, talk, press it again. `Esc` discards while recording. The first press for a new language downloads its model; the bar shows "Getting ready…" until it is there.
+- Click the microphone icon for History and Settings. Right-click it to start recording; while recording, click the waveform to stop, right-click to discard.
+- Settings: one row per language: the Dictate key (click it, press the key; Backspace clears), the + Return switch, and the Ask-agent key. The first row is the default language; use the arrows to reorder. Add languages from the picker.
+- `stt` from a terminal: `stt toggle --lang en [--enter]`, `stt status --follow`, `stt history`, `stt paste ID`, `stt set liveText false`.
+
+## Files
+
+| What | Where |
+|---|---|
+| Config | `~/.config/speech-to-text/config.json` |
+| History database and audio | `~/.local/share/speech-to-text/` |
+| Models | `~/.local/share/voxtype/models/` (shared with voxtype) |
+| Daemon socket and log | `$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/speech-to-text/` |
+
+## Uninstall
+
+```bash
+~/.config/omarchy/plugins/alanfortlink.speech-to-text/install.sh --uninstall
+omarchy plugin remove alanfortlink.speech-to-text
+```