VibeWhisper – macOS voice-to-text with push-to-talk,cloud or 100% local

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Hey HN,I built VibeWhisper because I was using Claude Code all day and the bottleneck wasn't thinking — it was typing. I tried an existing voice-to-text tool, loved the workflow, then saw the price: $20/month for a thin wrapper around OpenAI Whisper where 10 minutes of API usage costs $0.06. So I built my own in a weekend.How it works: Hold a configurable global hotkey (default: Right Command), speak, release. Transcribed text appears in whatever text field has focus — VS Code, Terminal, Slack, browser, anything. No clipboard hijacking — it uses the macOS Accessibility API to inject text directly at the cursor position (same APIs screen readers use).Two transcription engines:Cloud: OpenAI Wh

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Website: vibewhisper.dev