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OpenRouter mirrors OpenAI's /audio/transcriptions field for field, so one multipart request serves both providers and only the key, the base URL and the model id change. That puts a dozen speech models behind the key that was already there for the cleanup, and makes a single OpenRouter key enough for the whole chain. Its transcription endpoint takes no hint field, so the words from Cleanup rules are not sent there; they still reach the cleanup model as a glossary. Timestamps switch to openai/whisper-1, the namespaced id of the only model that returns segment times. The API tab is now grouped by role rather than by service, because a key no longer belongs to a single job: both keys sit at the top, the two jobs below. Each provider keeps its own model, so switching back and forth does not overwrite the other one's.
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# Dikte
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Press `Ctrl+Space`, talk, press again. The recording goes to OpenAI or OpenRouter
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for transcription, a model on OpenRouter cleans it up (dropping the *uh*s, the
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restarts, the missing punctuation), and the result lands in your clipboard and
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is pasted into whatever window you were typing in.
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Built for KDE Plasma 6 on Wayland. No dependencies beyond system packages:
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just the Python standard library and PyQt6.
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*[Türkçe README](README.tr.md)*
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<p align="center">
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<img src="docs/settings-general.webp" width="820" alt="Dikte settings, General tab">
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</p>
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| <img src="docs/settings-api.webp" width="410" alt="API and models"> | <img src="docs/settings-cleanup.webp" width="410" alt="Cleanup rules"> |
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| <img src="docs/settings-audio-file.webp" width="410" alt="Audio file"> | <img src="docs/settings-history.webp" width="410" alt="History"> |
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## Install
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```sh
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sudo pacman -S --needed pipewire-audio wl-clipboard ydotool ffmpeg python-pyqt6
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systemctl --user enable --now ydotool # needed for auto-paste
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./install.sh # or: ./install.sh "Ctrl+Alt+Space"
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dikte # the settings window opens on first run
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```
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`install.sh` adds the `dikte` command, a menu entry, an autostart entry and the
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KDE shortcut.
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Two keys go in the settings window: **OpenAI** and **OpenRouter**. Speech to text
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runs on either one (`gpt-4o-transcribe` by default), cleanup always on
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OpenRouter (`google/gemini-3.5-flash-lite`), so a single OpenRouter key can
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cover both. They fall back to `OPENAI_API_KEY` and `OPENROUTER_API_KEY`, and are
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stored in `~/.config/dikte/config.json`, mode 600. Cleanup can be switched off,
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in which case the raw transcript is pasted.
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## Using it
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| What | How |
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| --- | --- |
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| Start / stop recording | `Ctrl+Space`, or click the tray icon |
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| Cancel a recording | Tray menu → *Cancel recording*, or `dikte cancel` |
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| Settings | Tray menu → *Settings*, or `dikte settings` |
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| Reload after an update | Tray menu → *Restart*, or `dikte restart` |
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| Quit | Tray menu → *Quit*, or `dikte quit` |
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An indicator in the screen corner shows a red dot, a live waveform and the
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elapsed time, then the stage it is on. It never takes focus. Pressing
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`Ctrl+Space` again while Dikte is still working does nothing; nothing queues up.
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## What it does
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- **Silence never reaches the API.** Handed near-silence, a transcription model
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invents a sentence instead of returning nothing ("Thanks for watching", or in
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Turkish "Altyazı M.K."). A recording is dropped when nothing rose 10 dB above
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*that recording's own* noise floor for at least 0.3 s, which is also what
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removes steady fan noise however loud, or when its loud end sits below
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-55 dBFS. The indicator reports the level it measured, which is what you
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calibrate the threshold against.
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- **Misheard words are repaired.** Speech models fail phonetically on proper
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nouns, so the cleanup model is asked to fix those from context, and to leave
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the word alone when the context does not make the intended one clear. The names
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you list under Cleanup rules go to the transcription model as a hint and to the
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cleanup model as a glossary, which is what lets it recognise "kuber netis":
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```
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raw ıı bugün şey kuber netis üzerinde çalışan servisleri güncelledim
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yani sonra grafanada bir panel açtım hani ve pay kut ile arayüzü
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şey bitirdim işte
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result Bugün Kubernetes üzerinde çalışan servisleri güncelledim. Sonra
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Grafana'da bir panel açtım ve PyQt ile arayüzü bitirdim.
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```
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- **A failed cleanup is never silent.** The raw transcript is still pasted so the
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dictation is not lost, but the indicator turns amber with the reason instead of
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looking like a normal run.
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- **Audio and video files** run through the same models under Settings → Audio
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file, optionally with `[mm:ss]` timestamps, chunked through ffmpeg when long.
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- **History** of every dictation under Settings → History, with a size limit and
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right-click to delete.
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- **Turkish and English interface**, following the system locale by default.
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## The global shortcut needs one logout
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KWin only reads `kglobalshortcutsrc` at startup, so the shortcut `install.sh`
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writes will not fire until you log out and back in. Until then, Settings →
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Shortcut → **built-in listener** reads `/dev/input` and catches the combination
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itself. The difference: it does not swallow the key, so `Ctrl+Space` also reaches
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the focused application (some editors will pop up autocomplete). The listener
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needs your user in the `input` group: `sudo usermod -aG input $USER`.
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## Layout
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```
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dikte.py entry point, tray icon, state machine, IPC
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audio.py raw PCM capture through pw-record plus the level meter
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api.py transcription on either provider, OpenRouter cleanup (stdlib only)
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worker.py transcribe → clean up → clipboard → paste
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vad.py deciding whether a recording holds speech at all
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filetranscribe.py file transcription: ffmpeg, chunking, timestamps
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overlay.py the corner indicator
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settings_ui.py settings window
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hotkey.py KDE shortcut installation and the evdev listener
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paste.py wl-clipboard and ydotool wrappers
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i18n.py the string table
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```
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The indicator is drawn through XWayland, because a Wayland client cannot place a
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window in a screen corner; `dikte.py` sets `QT_QPA_PLATFORM=xcb` for that.
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## License
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GPL-3.0, see [LICENSE](LICENSE).
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