I type a lot less than I used to. I hold two keys, say what I want, let go, and the text shows up wherever my cursor is. Slack, VS Code, a Gmail draft, a terminal. It works with the Wi-Fi off.

That app is Talvio . It's open source (MIT), built with Tauri 2, Rust and React, and it runs on Windows and Linux today. A macOS build is coming.

GitHub: github.com/ishangautam7/Talvio

This post is half "here's what I made" and half "here's what broke". If you build desktop apps with Tauri, the second half is probably the useful part.

Why I built it

I wanted dictation that worked in every app, not just in one website's text box. I also didn't want my voice going to a server every time I wrote a Slack message.

I found Handy by CJ Pais. It's a small, open source, offline speech-to-text app, and it did the core thing well: hold a key, talk, paste. I forked it.…