Transcribe Your Voice in Terminal Locally
Details
- External ID
- 46006305
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Transcribe Your Voice in Terminal Locally
- Website domain
- hns-cli.dev
- Launched
- Nov. 21, 2025
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 6
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.27074235807860264
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
Use hns, a speech-to-text CLI tool to transcribe your voice from your microphone directly to clipboard. Integrate hns with Claude Code, Ollama, LLM, and more CLI tools for powerful workflows.hns transcribes your voice 100% locally using faster-whisper. The whisper model is downloaded automatically on first run and after that, hns can be used completely offline. After transcription, the text is displayed in the terminal (written to stdout) as well as automatically copied to your clipboard, ready to be pasted anywhere with Ctrl+V or Cmd+V.GitHub: https://github.com/primaprashant/hns/
Enrichment
- Theme
- voice dictation and control tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- local speech-to-text for terminal
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a Python CLI wrapper around the open-source faster-whisper package and system microphone/clipboard APIs.
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Competitors
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Launched 14 days after the earliest competitor.
- PrivateTranscribe · ph · 2026-09-15 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.65
- Local Whisper · ph · 2026-09-17 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- LocalScribe. Transcribe locally on Mac. · ph · 2026-09-08 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Voxprint · ph · 2026-09-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- LittleASR · ph · 2026-09-24 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- VoxScribe · ph · 2026-09-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Whisper Dictate · ph · 2026-09-21 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- FnScribe · hn · 2026-08-28 · 36 upvotes · similarity 0.50
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