Hey ProductHunt! 👋
I'm CJ, an independent developer who loves open source and making things.
I built Handy when I broke my finger and needed an open-source speech-to-text app that I could modify and customize.
At its core, Handy lets you speak directly into any text field on your computer when you're coding, writing emails, filling out forms, or doing anything else.
How it works: Press a shortcut, speak, press again. Your words appear wherever you're typing. Runs completely offline with Whisper, works cross-platform, no subscriptions or cloud processing.
My approach: This isn't trying to be feature-complete—it's designed to be easily modifiable. I needed something I could customize to experiment with new ways of using my voice with the computer. The codebase is intentionally simple so others can build on it, fork it, and adapt it for their specific needs.
Current status: This is beta software with known issues. I'm actively looking for:
- Users to try it and report bugs they encounter
- Rust contributors to help fix those bugs and improve the architecture
- Anyone who wants a speech-to-text foundation they can actually modify
Whether you need accessibility tools you can customize, want to experiment with voice computing, or just think speech-to-text should be simple and offline—this is a starting point to build from.
The goal is making this genuinely useful through real feedback and collaborative improvement. What problems do you run into? What would you want to modify?
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@cj_pais really cool mate !!! Its in the Voiceaispace.com, I'll share in the newsletter if ok for you. Happy to have a chat when Launch is finished :)
Congrats on the launch! I really love the story of this product, especially its initial focus on flexibility and simplicity. That philosophy of keeping things lean and straightforward is just fantastic.
I'm also very curious about what languages it currently supports? And, as an offline tool, what's its accuracy like? Please let me know!
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Nice. I used a few such tools before and without them , its honestly difficult to type and talk to an LLM properly. Going to give this one a try. Does this run offline?
This is truely awesome! The offline, open-source aspect is killer – so many speech-to-text tools are cloud-dependent, right? Being able to customize it myself is a huge plus. How customizable is it for different voice profiles, though?
No way, this is genius! I’m always fumbling between dictation apps and text fields—being able to just speak anywhere would save me so much hassle. Does it work across all browsers?
Handy
@cj_pais really cool mate !!! Its in the Voiceaispace.com, I'll share in the newsletter if ok for you. Happy to have a chat when Launch is finished :)
Happycapy
Congrats on the launch! I really love the story of this product, especially its initial focus on flexibility and simplicity. That philosophy of keeping things lean and straightforward is just fantastic.
I'm also very curious about what languages it currently supports? And, as an offline tool, what's its accuracy like? Please let me know!
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It looks really simple. Does it recognise only English language or also other languages?
Handy
@busmark_w_nika It's multilingual and can translate into English as well!
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@cj_pais Thank you for clarifying :)
GPT-4o
This is truely awesome! The offline, open-source aspect is killer – so many speech-to-text tools are cloud-dependent, right? Being able to customize it myself is a huge plus. How customizable is it for different voice profiles, though?
AltPage.ai
No way, this is genius! I’m always fumbling between dictation apps and text fields—being able to just speak anywhere would save me so much hassle. Does it work across all browsers?
Handy
@joey_zhu_seopage_ai It should work everywhere there is a text field! It's a desktop application
ZapDigits
I do like this! That's also a pretty cool logo.