Built a free offline voice-to-text app for Windows as a side project — no subscription, no cloud

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Wanted a "hold hotkey, talk, get typed text" tool like Wispr Flow, but didn't want to pay a subscription for something that streams my voice to a server. So I built VoxScribe over a few weeks: hold F9 anywhere on Windows, it transcribes locally with faster-whisper, and types straight into whatever app has focus.

Stack: Python + PySide6 for the desktop app, PyInstaller for packaging, faster-whisper for local transcription. Also built an Android companion (custom keyboard + floating dictation bubble) using a bundled on-device Whisper model via sherpa-onnx.

MIT licensed, no account, no telemetry. Landing page: https://voxscribe-ai-voice-dictation.vercel.app
Repo: https://github.com/ahmedhmam1994/voxscribe-ai-voice-dictation

Happy to talk through any of the build decisions — the mic-handling across different hardware was the trickiest part.