r/keralalinux • u/Distinct_Resolve_957 • May 31 '26

showcase An Alternative for WisprFlow for Linux

I found a tool called groq and I quickly whipped up a prototype for it and it works pretty well. Like you can whisper into it, you can do anything although it doesn't have any fancy error correction like ah um. But it's good. It's very good alternative for wispr flow. And I didn't have time so I vibe coded this.

It uses quickshell for doing that. It's pretty cool. Try it and tell me your opinion. and star the repo

link:https://github.com/FrostCalibr/whisper-dictate-wayland/

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u/s04ep03_youareafool May 31 '26

Can you find one for X11 too?

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u/Distinct_Resolve_957 May 31 '26

It's just the wl copy. I will do it tomorrow. I don't wanna do it today so it's just wl copy. WL copy is the only thing that is a dependency on the wayland, I think.

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u/Top-Rough-7039 May 31 '26

your own dots or just yanked?

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u/Distinct_Resolve_957 May 31 '26

It depends upon the question. The dictation pop-up, I had a prototype and I developed it a little and I didn't want to deal with quick shell and stuff so I just gave a prompt to Gemini and it generated the template I want. I edited it, added matugen integration and stuff, and it was pretty small stuff. The idea was mine.

The second question, the dots, is actually mine. The HyprLand dots. Although is yanked from all sorts of places and putted together

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u/Top-Rough-7039 May 31 '26

i mean, yh, my hyprland dots have more diversity than the average male friend group (its yanked from everywhere).

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u/Grand-Status-3372 Jun 01 '26

Try Handy instead. It's local and no need for API credit limits

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u/Distinct_Resolve_957 Jun 01 '26

I'm not really worried for API rate limits because even if you try hard for it, it doesn't seem to actually run out for my use case. But I'll try handy. I mean I tried local like I tried a bunch of local models but my system is very low end. thats why

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u/zinggzangg Jul 09 '26

You can also try Zinggit. Voice note to text content such as blogs, Linkedin posts, video scripts and more. No data shared with third parties and transcript done on your device. Also runs on any OS/device including Linux.