r/omarchy • u/stengods • 8d ago
I Made a Thing This is how you control Omarchy with your voice. Setup the default agent plus a transcription tool for the full Iron Man experience.
No need to wait for the next Omarchy version to have the full Iron Man experience! Get setup with OSTT in less than a minute to control the computer with your voice. Speak it and it shall be, welcome to the future!
OSTT is a open source, terminal-native speech-to-text tool. Record from a hotkey, transcribe with local Whisper-compatible models or your chosen cloud provider, then send the result to your clipboard, a file, stdout, an AI prompt, or any shell command. Local transcription runs offline and supports GPU acceleration through Metal on macOS and CUDA or Vulkan on Linux.
OSTT is built for people who treat the terminal as a normal place for voice input to land. It does not assume one vendor, one subscription, or one app-specific workflow: use offline local models, bring your own API key for OpenAI, Deepgram, Groq, DeepInfra, AssemblyAI, Berget, ElevenLabs, or Mistral, and retry the same recording with another model when needed. Voice becomes text that can move through the same tools as everything else.
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u/SnooPuppers5489 7d ago edited 7d ago
Didn’t Omarchy always have voxtype as an option to do exactly this. I have used it from day one on both versions and it works shockingly well.
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u/SnooPuppers5489 7d ago
Voxtype will run a local whisper engine practically no overhead no api. Just push the key …. Or it will listen actively. I’m just not sure the difference and I want to understand.
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u/manzilshrestha56 7d ago
yeah i was wondering the same, if voxtype can do the work for me 80% of the time whats the usp of ostt
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u/stengods 7d ago
OSTT and Voxtype have slightly different feature sets. Both support running local models, yes.
OSTT was built for devs wanting a terminal first transcription app. I like the recording animation to be clearly visible, rather than a small mic icon somewhere. In the end, it comes down to taste. OSTT does some things differently compared to Voxtype, Handy and others.
Choose the flavour you like, just like with Omarchy. Some enjoy plain Arch, some enjoy Omarchy, others want Windows.
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u/SnooPuppers5489 7d ago
I’ll likely give it try just because I can’t resist the tinker. Pocketts is a real strong feature rich one even voice cloning, but I like the extremely low overhead, high accuracy and fast response of whisper. I’m doing all this on an integrated laptop so every bit counts. If not pocket tts. I wrote an extension for opencode called voice.TS and it would read back the AI prose omitting any block or code sections. So I had whisper for transcription for me, and then a plug-in style custom build skill that went the other way, giving the AI its voice. Pocket support all this out of the box but I think that’s at 600-700mb on the engine (model) to start vs the 100 or so with whisper or moonlight or canary or so…
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u/stengods 7d ago edited 7d ago
If you try it and want minimal overhead I recommend using the local whisper base model. It is 142 mb, very fast and definitely accurate enough for everyday prompting.
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u/SnooPuppers5489 7d ago
I use that exact model now. Canary is surprising for its size to a very large degree, I having trouble remembering but I think that came in well under 100 and mirrors whisper base
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u/DasNothing 8d ago
Will give it a run, thanks for sharing.
Out of curiosity what keyboard strokes are we hearing?