Transcribe Your Voice in Terminal Locally
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:…
Transcribe Your Voice in Terminal Locally launched on November 21, 2025 with 6 votes, #2,995 of 9,796 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.
What it does
hns is a local speech-to-text CLI for voice typing. Record and transcribe speech to clipboard using offline speech recognition. Integrate with Claude Code, Ollama, and more.
hns is 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. Runs on consumer-grade hardware. No need to send your data to cloud and pay recurring fee for something you can run on your own device. CLI tool built for developers. Follows the unix philosophy of doing one thing well. Suitable for integrating with your other favorite CLI tools and workflows. Your data stays locally on your machine. Your sensitive information and private thoughts are not being harvested for model training or advertisement and not being shared with third parties. Provide detailed,…from hns-cli.dev
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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…
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