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Delightful Dictation
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Happy Friday! I’ve been big into dictation for a long time. It is great for getting your thoughts out of your head while avoiding the self-editing that often comes when writing. I use it for brainstorming, journaling, drafting, and now for instructing AI agents. However, most tools were built for Mac/iOS so it has been a struggle on Linux. I found the quite aptly named Handy (https://handy.computer) and have been using it for a while now and highly recommend it. It works beautifully on Linux, but it is also available on Mac and Windows if you are so inclined. I’ve got a global hotkey setup (I chose Ctrl+PgDn on my wonky keyboard) and wherever I can type text, I can hit the hotkey and then just dictate and it’ll do the transcription locally on my device using any of a selection of open models. Currently I have it using One of the really cool things is that you can set up post-processing so that it can automatically clean up your transcript before pasting it. You can send it through a remote LLM provider, but I’m using local Ollama with gemma4 and it runs pretty fast and returns an excellently cleaned up version of my dictation. It is pretty sweet to be able to run this dictation stack fully on device. While I’m not dictating state secrets, it is nice to know that there is no snooping on what I’m saying. I’ll probably create a video on Handy in the near future as it is very useful. But in any case, if you’re at all into dictation I’d highly recommend it. -- Logan / Terminal Velocity |
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