Hey ProductHunt! 👋
I'm CJ, an independent developer who loves open source and making things.
I built Handy when I broke my finger and needed an open-source speech-to-text app that I could modify and customize.
At its core, Handy lets you speak directly into any text field on your computer when you're coding, writing emails, filling out forms, or doing anything else.
How it works: Press a shortcut, speak, press again. Your words appear wherever you're typing. Runs completely offline with Whisper, works cross-platform, no subscriptions or cloud processing.
My approach: This isn't trying to be feature-complete—it's designed to be easily modifiable. I needed something I could customize to experiment with new ways of using my voice with the computer. The codebase is intentionally simple so others can build on it, fork it, and adapt it for their specific needs.
Current status: This is beta software with known issues. I'm actively looking for:
- Users to try it and report bugs they encounter
- Rust contributors to help fix those bugs and improve the architecture
- Anyone who wants a speech-to-text foundation they can actually modify
Whether you need accessibility tools you can customize, want to experiment with voice computing, or just think speech-to-text should be simple and offline—this is a starting point to build from.
The goal is making this genuinely useful through real feedback and collaborative improvement. What problems do you run into? What would you want to modify?
No way, this is genius! I’m always fumbling between dictation apps and text fields—being able to just speak anywhere would save me so much hassle. Does it work across all browsers?
I've been using it for a few weeks. It's just simple enough to do everything I need and not cluttered with complicated things that I don't care about. Big thanks to CJ for pulling this together. I was using SuperWhisper before this and was put off by the inability to add a feature that I cared about and subscription-gating simple things like re-running a transcription. This review dictated with Handy.
Handy
It looks really simple. Does it recognise only English language or also other languages?
Handy
@busmark_w_nika It's multilingual and can translate into English as well!
@cj_pais Thank you for clarifying :)
AltPage.ai
No way, this is genius! I’m always fumbling between dictation apps and text fields—being able to just speak anywhere would save me so much hassle. Does it work across all browsers?
Handy
@joey_zhu_seopage_ai It should work everywhere there is a text field! It's a desktop application