voice2text

Voice-to-text for Linux via Groq's Whisper API. Records audio on demand, transcribes it, and pastes the result into the active window.

Usage

Press ALT+SPACE (bind this in your window manager) to toggle recording. Transcribed text is pasted via xdotool (Ctrl+Shift+V).

# build
gcc -O3 voice2text.c -o ~/.local/bin/voice2text -lasound -lcurl

# set API key
echo "gsk_..." > ~/.config/voice2text/groq.key

Requirements

• Linux with ALSA (libasound-dev)
• libcurl (libcurl4-openssl-dev)
• xdotool, xclip
• A Groq API key (free tier available)

Bind ALT+SPACE → voice2text in i3/sway/whatever.