The listener reads /dev/input and reacts the instant a key goes down. The
KDE shortcut answers the same press by launching a whole Python process,
which then talks over IPC, so its toggle lands a few hundred milliseconds
later. The 400 ms guard caught that echo only when the machine happened to
be quick, and otherwise the recording was started and stopped by one press:
"No speech detected".
Route the two apart. A toggle arriving from outside the process right
behind a listener trigger is that echo, and its lateness also proves the
KDE shortcut is live, which leaves the listener with nothing to do but
double every press. So retire it, remember that in the config, and say so
in the tray rather than changing behaviour silently.
The screenshots were downscaled to 430 px wide, which made the UI text
blurry. Restore them at native 1292 px as lossless WebP, which is also
half the size of the original PNGs (72 KB against 155 KB for the largest).
Rewrite every em dash in prose, comments, docstrings and interface strings
as ordinary punctuation.
Ctrl+Space starts and stops a recording. The audio goes to OpenAI for
transcription, a model on OpenRouter strips the fillers and restores
punctuation, and the result is copied and pasted into the focused window.
Only the Python standard library and PyQt6 — HTTP, multipart uploads and
WAV writing are all hand-rolled.
- pw-record captures raw 16 kHz mono PCM with a live level meter
- the corner indicator is drawn through XWayland, since a Wayland client
cannot position its own window
- silence is caught before it costs an API call, relative to each
recording's own noise floor, plus a filter for the stock phrases models
invent when handed silence
- audio and video files can be transcribed too, optionally with [mm:ss]
timestamps, chunked through ffmpeg for long inputs
- global shortcut installs as a KDE custom shortcut, with an evdev
listener as a fallback until the session is restarted
- Turkish and English interface, following the system locale by default
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