shout

Simple speech-to-text for Wayland/Hyprland. Press a key to record, press again to transcribe and press Enter.

Works great with AI coding agents like Claude Code - they're forgiving of typos and excellent at semantic reasoning, so transcription doesn't need to be perfect.

demo.mp4

Installation (Arch Linux / AUR)

yay -S shout

Uses the tiny whisper model (75 MB) - fastest transcription, good enough for AI agents.

Setup

Add this keybind to ~/.config/hypr/hyprland.conf:

bindd = SUPER, R, shout, exec, shout

Then reload: hyprctl reload

Usage

1. Press Super+R to start recording
2. Speak
3. Press Super+R again to stop, transcribe, and type the text

License

MIT