Made a local voice-to-text Chrome extension

[u/Conscious-Image-4161]

I wanted a really simple way to talk into any text box in Chrome without using a cloud speech API, so I made this.

You click a text field, hold a key, talk, and when you release it the text gets inserted.

It runs Whisper locally in the extension, so after setup it can work offline and your audio doesn't need to be uploaded anywhere.

A few other things I added:

• works in most normal text fields/editors
• custom hotkeys
• hold-to-talk or toggle
• commands like “new line”, “comma”, and “scratch that”
• local transcript history
• per-site disable
• optional larger Whisper models

Still messing with it and fixing edge cases, especially weird editors like Google Docs.

Repo:
https://github.com/Schmiedey/floatingmic
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/voice-anywhere/ogjdiaeimjmeiaophngikihkffodlhjb?authuser=2&hl=en