🎙️ WhisperSpoon: STT Shortcut for macOS

📸 Screenshot

✨ Features

• 🗣 Voice Typing: Speech to text anywhere on macOS.
• 💻 Shortcut: ⌥ + Space to start and finish.
• 🎤 Mic Selector: Submenu for convenient microphone selection.
• 🤖 API Providers: Supports multiple API providers.
• 💰 Free: Completely when paired with Elevenlabs Scribe.
• 💕 Open Source: MIT Licensed

📥 Installation

1. Install https://brew.sh
2. $ brew install sox switchaudio-osx
3. Install https://www.hammerspoon.org ($ brew install --cask hammerspoon)
4. Start Hammerspoon and grant it accessibility access in settings
5. Copy whisper-spoon.lua contents into your ~/.hammerspoon/init.lua
6. Reload Hammerspoon Config

🔌 API Provider Setup

These API providers are currently supported:

1. https://elevenlabs.io (free for low volumes)
2. https://console.groq.com
3. https://platform.openai.com

Get an API key and paste it in to get going.

💸 Paid Alternatives

Whisper Spoon aims to be a completely free, lightweight, and open source alternative to paid solutions like:

• https://superwhisper.com
• https://goodsnooze.gumroad.com/l/macwhisper

💕 Contribute

Merge requests are welcome!