Yapyap – a simple and fast dictation for Linux using whisper.cpp
I was looking for a push-to-talk tool that allows me to just paste my speech transcription automatically into whatever application I'm using. I wasn't able to find anything simple enough that works, so I built my own. For now, it's just a basic CLI that works on Linux only using whisper.cpp. It is incredibly simple. You hold down the buttons, say stuff, release and then it will pipe the transcription lines to stdout. I'm using it to write this comment :)
Yapyap – a simple and fast dictation for Linux using whisper.cpp launched on September 9, 2025 with 7 votes, #2,024 of 8,160 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.
What it does
fast and simple push to talk dictation. Contribute to lxe/yapyap development by creating an account on GitHub.
When you press and hold a specific key combination ( left ctrl + alt by default), it records audio and automatically transcribes it to text using whisper.cpp , then flushes the transcription to stdout, so you can do whatever with it, like: yapyap | while read l ; do wl-copy -- $l && hyprctl dispatch sendshortcut ' CTRL+SHIFT,V, ' ; done For now, it only works on Linux due to evdev requirement. sudo usermod -a -G input $USER Log out and log back in for the group change to take effect. curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh If you have an NVIDIA card and cuda toolkit installed: uv tool install --reinstall -Caccel=cuda -Crepair=false git+https://github.com/lxe/yapyap For CPU only (not…from github.com
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