Show HN: Hyprvoice – Voice-Powered Typing for Wayland/Hyprland (No X11 Hacks)

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6 points by trapani a day ago

I built Hyprvoice, a small tool that lets you type with your voice on Wayland — no X11, no kludgy bridges. Press a key, talk, and your words appear wherever your cursor is.

It’s written in Go, uses PipeWire for audio, and talks directly to the compositor. The workflow is simple:

press key → start recording

press again → stop and inject text

Notifications show recording/transcribing states, and it works with multiple backends — currently OpenAI Whisper, with whisper.cpp (local/offline) in progress.

Everything runs through a lightweight daemon with IPC over a unix socket. Text injection uses wl-clipboard + wtype with clipboard restore fallback.

Install (Arch/AUR):

yay -S hyprvoice-bin systemctl --user enable --now hyprvoice.service

Then add something like this to Hyprland:

bind = SUPER, R, exec, hyprvoice toggle

Repo: https://github.com/leonardotrapani/hyprvoice

It’s beta but fully usable. I’d love feedback, especially from people running Wayland full-time or maintaining compositors.

mic-kul a day ago

Great idea, I would love something like hyprvoice but with local model and using ydotool instead of clipboard. I will definitely test it with Omarchy