Open Source TypeScript Speech to Text Software

Handy is a free, open-source, offline speech-to-text application built for privacy, accessibility, and extensibility. Developed using Tauri (Rust + React/TypeScript), it runs natively across Windows, macOS, and Linux while performing local speech recognition without sending any audio to cloud servers. Handy allows users to start transcription instantly using a configurable keyboard shortcut—press to record, release to transcribe—and automatically pastes the resulting text into any active text field. Its backend leverages OpenAI’s Whisper models for GPU-accelerated speech recognition and Parakeet V3 for efficient CPU-only transcription with automatic language detection. To further refine accuracy and responsiveness, Handy integrates Silero’s Voice Activity Detection (VAD) for silence filtering, ensuring only speech segments are processed.

ito is an open‑source JavaScript library for serverless, browser‑to‑browser communication designed for use on devices with or without user input interfaces, such as IoT devices, mobile devices, tablets, and desktops, enabling peer messaging and data sharing via short passcodes and cloud‑backed pairing without an application server.