hns
Speak, and the text lands on your clipboard ready to paste.
// WHAT IT'S FOR
hns runs in the terminal and turns your voice into text on your own computer, with no audio sent to the cloud and no subscription. You type hns, speak, press Enter, and the text shows up on screen and lands on your clipboard, ready to paste anywhere. Use it to dictate a long prompt, an email or your notes without typing. The first run downloads the speech model; after that it works offline.
// FROM THEIR SITE
hns - Speech-to-Text CLI
“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.”
ON GITHUB
- Stars
- ★ 120
- Last change
- Sep 26, 2026
- License
- MIT
- Language
- Python
Data as of Oct 9, 2026
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