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alan f2ed66ed17 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 (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).

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

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

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