Local voice-to-text for macOS built with Hammerspoon
A hotkey dictation tool for macOS that transcribes Turkish and English on the local GPU was built with Claude Code in one session in Lua, Swift, TypeScript and Python.
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This is a voice-to-text tool for macOS: press a hotkey, speak, press it again, and the text appears in the active app within about 0.3 to 1.5 seconds. It handles Turkish and English and transcribes on the Mac's own GPU with Parakeet and Whisper models, so nothing leaves the machine.
Claude Code built it in one session, covering Hammerspoon hotkeys in Lua, audio recording in Swift, TypeScript orchestration with fallback between speech models, Python model servers and an installer, and debugged across all of them.
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From a short post by the maker, so the details are as they tell them.
- Reddit: Built voice-to-text for macOS with Claude CodeReddit poster: _yemreakPosted
The maker's post on r/ClaudeCode.
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