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install.sh has been the only half of its job that was written down. Removing Dikte meant remembering a symlink, three desktop files, an autostart entry and a handful of kglobalshortcutsrc keys, and updating meant a pull followed by guessing which of those the new version had moved. Both are now scripts, because both are lists somebody would otherwise keep in their head. uninstall.sh removes what install.sh put down and stops there. What you have written is yours: the settings and the dictations, the meetings and the recordings survive a plain run, and --purge is the word that deletes them. It prints what that would cost first, how many dictations, how many meetings, how much audio, since a count is the thing that makes the sentence real, and without a terminal to ask it refuses rather than assuming --yes. Only our own symlink goes; a file of that name somebody else put there is left alone. The shortcuts are handed back to `dikte shortcut remove` rather than unpicked from KDE's file here, because that is the half that knows whether they went into kglobalshortcutsrc or into GNOME's gsettings. update.sh asks whether anything is waiting before it complains about anything else, because an unfinished afternoon in the working tree is nobody's problem on a day when nothing has been published. If something is waiting and you do have edits of your own, it stops and says so rather than choosing for you. The merge is --ff-only: an update is somebody else's commits arriving, never a merge a script decided to make on your behalf. Then install.sh runs again, since an update can add a dependency or move a file, and it is told which keys you chose so that it puts those back instead of its own defaults. They are read from the settings rather than from the desktop's file, that being the one place they mean the same thing on KDE and on GNOME, and a key you had turned off is passed back as the empty string rather than quietly becoming the default again. Finally the running instance is restarted, because it is still holding the code from before the pull.
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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 "Meta+Space" "Meta+Shift+Space"
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dikte # the settings window opens on first run
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```
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On Ubuntu/GNOME X11, recording uses PulseAudio and clipboard/paste use the X11
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tools instead:
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```sh
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sudo apt install pulseaudio-utils xclip xdotool ffmpeg
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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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two global shortcuts, whose keys are its two arguments. `./update.sh` pulls and
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puts all of that back, keeping the keys you chose; `./uninstall.sh` takes it away
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again and leaves your settings and dictations alone unless you pass `--purge`.
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Three keys go in the settings window: **OpenAI**, **Groq** and **OpenRouter**.
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Speech to text runs on any of them (`gpt-4o-transcribe` by default), cleanup
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always on OpenRouter (`google/gemini-3.5-flash-lite`), so a single OpenRouter key
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can cover both. They fall back to `OPENAI_API_KEY`, `GROQ_API_KEY` and
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`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, and a thinking model's effort can be
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set next to it.
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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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| Discard the recording | `Ctrl+Alt+Space`, tray menu, or `dikte cancel` |
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| Speak a command to an agent | Tray menu → *Ask Claude*, or `dikte ask` |
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| Start / end a meeting | Tray menu → *Record a meeting*, or `dikte meeting` |
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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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A dictation and a command to the agent do wait on each other for the microphone,
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which is one device, but for nothing else: each has its own indicator, and the
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second one stacks above the first while both are up.
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Everything the settings window holds has a verb of its own too, so a script or
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an agent can work the whole thing: `dikte record --seconds 8` says back what was
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said, `dikte transcribe talk.mp4 --srt` writes subtitles, and the settings, the
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history and the meetings are there beside them. `dikte --help` lists them, they
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all take `--json`, and only the ones needing the microphone need the application
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running.
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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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- **A dictation can be a command instead.** Its own shortcut sends the
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transcript to Claude Code (`claude -p`) rather than pasting it, and pastes back
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what comes of it: the answer, or a sentence saying what was done. It is the
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session you would have opened yourself, so your skills and connected services
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are there, which is what makes "put that in my calendar on Thursday at three"
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a thing you can say to a window that is not Claude. Codex (`codex exec`) runs
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the same way, and OpenRouter is there as a plain question-and-answer fallback
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for a machine with neither CLI on it. Provider, model, permissions and working
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directory are under Settings → Agent, and commands close together stay in one
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conversation.
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- **Meetings** are recorded from the microphone and the speaker output at the
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same time, which settles who said what by the channel a voice arrived on
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instead of guessing at it. The two sides are transcribed separately and
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interleaved into one timestamped transcript, and a second model, configured
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under Settings → Meeting along with its own instruction, turns that into
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minutes: decisions, action items, open questions. They land in
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`~/.local/share/dikte/meetings` and in Settings → Minutes. A run that fails
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keeps its recording, and a retry resumes from the transcript it already paid
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for.
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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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and saved as `.txt` or as `.srt` subtitles; their cleanup follows its own rules,
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written for subtitles, so the lines keep their place and nothing is shortened.
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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 shortcuts need one logout
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KWin only reads `kglobalshortcutsrc` at startup, so the shortcuts `install.sh`
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writes will not fire until you log out and back in. Until then, Settings →
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Shortcuts → **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
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cli.py the command line: every verb, and what it answers with
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ipc.py one request and one reply over the local socket
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audio.py PCM capture: pw-record for dictation, ffmpeg for a meeting
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meeting.py channel split, speaker labelling, cleanup, minutes
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assistant.py running a dictation through Claude Code, Codex or OpenRouter
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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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