Getting Qwen3-ASR into Handy, 114 experiments deep
Handy is a local voice-to-text desktop app by @cjpais that I’ve been contributing to for a few months. Push a key, speak, release, and whatever you said appears at the cursor. No cloud, no API key, no latency across the wire. The transcription is done by transcribe-rs, a Rust crate that wraps a handful of ASR engines (whisper, Parakeet, SenseVoice, Canary, openai) behind a unified interface. ...