Not sure how it works in other OS's but in Omarchy [1] you hold down `Super + Ctrl + X` to start recording and release it to stop, while it's recording you'll see a red voice recording icon in the top bar so it's clear when its recording.

Although as llms-py is a local web App I had to build my own visual indicator [2] which also displays a red microphone next to the prompt when it's recording. It also supports both Tap On/Off and hold down for recording modes. When using voxtype I'm just using the tool for transcription (i.e. not Omarchy OS-wide dictation feature) like:

$ voxtype transcribe /path/to/audio.wav

If you're interested the Python source code to support multiple voice transcription backends is at: [3]

[1] https://learn.omacom.io/2/the-omarchy-manual/107/ai

[2] https://llmspy.org/docs/features/voice-input

[3] https://github.com/ServiceStack/llms/blob/main/llms/extensio...

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mijoharas 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Ah, the thing I really want is to see the words that I'm speaking being transcribed (i.e. realtime) For some reason I rarely see that feature.

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bmn__ 4 hours ago | parent [-]

The more things change…

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21711755

	▲	mijoharas 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		hahaha! plus ca change indeed. (I keep coming back to this one so I've got half a dozen messages on HN asking for the exact same thing!). It's a shame, whisper is so prevalent, but not great at actual streaming, but everyone uses it. I'm hoping one of these might become a realtime de facto standard so we can actually get our realtime streaming api (and yep, I'd be perfectly happy with something just writing to stdout. But all the tools always end up just batching it because it's simpler!)