https://notes.alelec.net/tags/voice/ Recent content in Voice on alelec blog Hugo en-us Sun, 05 Apr 2026 08:30:00 +1000 https://notes.alelec.net/posts/qwen3-asr-in-handy/ Sun, 05 Apr 2026 08:30:00 +1000 https://notes.alelec.net/posts/qwen3-asr-in-handy/ <p><img alt="A man sits on a park bench with a laptop on his lap, dictating quietly, a jogger passing in the background" loading="lazy" src="https://notes.alelec.net/assets/qwen3-handy-hero.jpeg"></p> <p>Handy is a local voice-to-text desktop app by @cjpais that I&rsquo;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 <a href="https://github.com/cjpais/transcribe-rs">transcribe-rs</a>, a Rust crate that wraps a handful of ASR engines (whisper, Parakeet, SenseVoice, Canary, openai) behind a unified interface.</p>