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Toice – Local voice typing for Linux using Whisper

by zherotz·Feb 17, 2026·2 points·0 comments

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The Take

The repo solves a real Wayland pain with a clever two-part design: a lightweight out-of-sandbox trigger script wakes a sandboxed app via DBus so you can have a global hotkey without breaking security. It runs whisper.cpp locally and shows an overlay to paste transcripts system-wide — very useful for offline, privacy-first typing — but the Flatpak/runtime, AVX2 needs, and English-only support limit its reach.

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Target Audience

Linux desktop users (GNOME/KDE/Wayland), privacy-conscious users and accessibility seekers who want local/offline speech-to-text

Post Description

I built this because existing voice typing solutions either don't work well on Linux or send your audio to the cloud.

Toice is simple: press a hotkey, speak, and paste the transcribed text anywhere. It uses Whisper models locally (you choose the size during setup).

Works system-wide across all applications. English only for now.

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