Transcribe Your Voice in Terminal Locally
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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/
HN · launched Nov 21, 2025 · 6 upvotes (top 73%) · 0 views
Niche: voice dictation software · 224 launches, 16 in the last 7 days ▼ -30% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- AI-native
- Hobby / open-source project
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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
Other products that read as similar to this one : 830 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #794 of 831 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 14 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Voxprint · ph · 2026-09-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- SpeechFast · ph · 2026-10-18 · 78 upvotes · similarity 0.53
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