Hey ProductHunt! 👋
I'm CJ, an independent developer who loves open source and making things.
I built Handy when I broke my finger and needed an open-source speech-to-text app that I could modify and customize.
At its core, Handy lets you speak directly into any text field on your computer when you're coding, writing emails, filling out forms, or doing anything else.
How it works: Press a shortcut, speak, press again. Your words appear wherever you're typing. Runs completely offline with Whisper, works cross-platform, no subscriptions or cloud processing.
My approach: This isn't trying to be feature-complete—it's designed to be easily modifiable. I needed something I could customize to experiment with new ways of using my voice with the computer. The codebase is intentionally simple so others can build on it, fork it, and adapt it for their specific needs.
Current status: This is beta software with known issues. I'm actively looking for:
- Users to try it and report bugs they encounter
- Rust contributors to help fix those bugs and improve the architecture
- Anyone who wants a speech-to-text foundation they can actually modify
Whether you need accessibility tools you can customize, want to experiment with voice computing, or just think speech-to-text should be simple and offline—this is a starting point to build from.
The goal is making this genuinely useful through real feedback and collaborative improvement. What problems do you run into? What would you want to modify?
About Handy on Product Hunt
“Speak directly into any text field”
Handy launched on Product Hunt on August 6th, 2025 and earned 101 upvotes and 13 comments, placing #20 on the daily leaderboard. Handy is a cross platform, open-source, speech-to-text application for your computer.
On the analytics side, Handy competes within Productivity, Open Source, GitHub and Audio — topics that collectively have 761.8k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Handy performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Handy?
Handy was hunted by CJ Pais. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
CJ Pais