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, in the language you are dictating: yellow while the microphone opens, green once your voice is actually coming through; the bar goes back to the icon the moment the text is pasted. Pick the look in Settings: bars, wave, pulse or dots.
Never miss the first words: Settings → Advanced → "Keep the microphone open" keeps the stream running between recordings, so a recording starts instantly and even includes the half second before the key press. (Not for a Bluetooth headset: it would stay in headset mode all the time.)
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 and delete, searchable, in the bar popup; kept for a month by default (Settings).
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 (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

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).

If Omarchy's dictation engine (voxtype) is not installed yet, the popup says so and offers an Install button, which runs omarchy-voxtype-install in a floating terminal (about 150 MB, asks for your password). Everything else the plugin needs is part of a stock Omarchy: PipeWire, wl-clipboard, curl, Python 3; wtype comes with voxtype.

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).

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

~/.config/omarchy/plugins/alanfortlink.speech-to-text/install.sh --uninstall
omarchy plugin remove alanfortlink.speech-to-text