hns

Use hns, a speech-to-text CLI tool to transcribe your voice from your microphone directly to clipboard. Integrate hns with Claude Code, Ollama, LLM, and more CLI tools for powerful workflows. hns transcribes your voice 100% locally using faster-whisper. The whisper model is downloaded automatically on first run and after that, hns can be used completely offline. After transcription, the text is displayed in the terminal (written to stdout) as well as automatically copied to your clipboard, ready to be pasted anywhere with Ctrl+V or Cmd+V. GitHub: https://github.com/primaprashant/hns/

built something similar for terminal lovers. It's a CLI tool built in Python called hns [1] and uses faster-whisper for completely local speech-to-text. It automatically copies the transcription to the clipboard as well as writes to stdout so you seamlessly paste the transcription in any other application or pipe/redirect it to other programs/files. [1]: https://github.com/primaprashant/hns

btw, if you want local dictation, speak and get a transcript, not transcribe files, I built a Python tool called hns [1]. It's open source, uses faster-whisper, and you can run it with `uvx hns` or just `hns` after `uv tool install hns`. [1]: https://github.com/primaprashant/hns

This one is a whisper-based Python package https://github.com/primaprashant/hns

Building a local CLI tool, hns [1], for speech-to-text in terminal in 5 keystrokes. It records my voice, transcribes it locally using faster-whisper, and copies the transcription to my clipboard. Check the demo linked in the GitHub repo to see how it works. I use it especially with Claude Code to provide detailed context for the outcome I want to achieve. I ramble for 5 minutes, and then paste the transcription to Claude Code, instead of having to type all my thoughts all the time. The workflow is like this: $ hns # start recording <talk> <Enter> # clipboard now holds the text [1] https://github.com/primaprashant/hns

I've been pretty happy with the python package hns for this [1]. You can run it from the terminal with uvx hns and it will listen until you press enter and then copy the transcription to the clipboard. It's a simple tool that does one thing well and integrates smoothly with a CLI-based workflow. [1] - https://github.com/primaprashant/hns

hns: CLI tool that records your voice, transcribes it locally using faster-whisper, and copies the transcription to your clipboard Install: `uv tool install hns` or `pipx install hns` Run `hns`, ramble for 5 minutes, and then paste to Claude Code, Notes, Slack, etc.

Claude Code is great with detailed context, but I got tired of typing long prompts in the terminal all the time. I wanted local speech-to-text (STT) tool that actually worked in the terminal, so I built `hns`. It pipes your speech directly to your clipboard as text and uses faster-whisper for transcription. ``` $ hns # start recording <talk> <Enter> # clipboard now holds the text ``` Now I can ramble for 2 minutes about a refactor and paste the whole brain-dump into Claude Code. Also handy for emails, Slack messages, or feeding messy thoughts to any LLM. Nothing leaves your machine, works offline after first model download, MIT licensed. Install: `uv tool install hns` or `pipx install hns` Repo + demo: https://github.com/primaprashant/hns