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There is no shortage of dictation apps.

I wanted a dictation app that didn't stop at transcription. So I built one that can also see my screen and answer questions about whatever I'm working on.

SpeakoFlow still does normal dictation. Hold a hotkey, speak, and the text goes wherever your cursor is.

It can also understand what's on my screen. If I'm reading an email, I can ask it to write a reply. If I'm looking at a terminal error, I can ask what went wrong. If I'm reading a document, I can ask for a summary.

I don't need to take a screenshot, upload it somewhere, and explain the context. I just ask.

There is also a floating voice assistant that stays over whatever I am working on, so I can continue the conversation without switching apps.

Speech-to-text always runs locally. The assistant can also run locally or connect to the AI provider of your choice.

It is free, open source, and available for Windows, macOS, and Linux. No account required.

I use it every day and I am actively improving it. Recent releases have focused on stability and fixes reported by users.

Github : https://github.com/AbhishekBarali/SpeakoFlow

Website : https://www.speakoflow.com/

I built SpeakoFlow because I was done with Win+H dropping mid-sentence and needing internet to work. And I wasn't paying $144/year for Wispr Flow just to talk into a text box.

So I built a replacement. It started as just dictation but kind of spiraled.

The core: Press a hotkey, talk, text appears wherever your cursor is. VS Code, Discord, Word, browser, whatever. Runs locally using Whisper on your GPU or CPU. Nothing leaves your machine.

But it also does:

• A voice AI assistant with a floating panel. Ask by voice, get answers out loud.
• Screen vision. It sees what's on your screen and answers with that context.
• "Hey Flow" mode. Say the trigger phrase and instead of raw dictation, it writes a polished reply or email for you.
• Web search, personal memory, multiple voice profiles, translation, AI grammar cleanup.

I know that sounds like a lot. But day to day it's just: press hotkey, talk, done. Everything else is there when you want it.

The offline thing is real. Built-in assistant runs a local model on your hardware. No API key, no account, no internet. If you want something stronger, bring your own key or point it at Ollama. Your choice.

Free, MIT open source, no telemetry

Website: https://speakoflow.com

Source: https://github.com/AbhishekBarali/SpeakoFlow

If something sucks or crashes, Please tell me. Actively working on it.

This started during exam season. I was studying alone, the topic was mind-numbing, and I was sick of flipping through a dozen tabs just to understand one thing. So I made a little assistant I could trigger with a hotkey, and it would look at whatever was on my screen and just explain it to me. Way less painful than reading through everything myself.

Then I kept adding to it. I use dictation a lot (Wispr Flow and the like), so I added talk-to-type into any app. Then a chat panel. Then it started reading answers back out loud. At some point it stopped being a study hack and quietly became the thing I use all day.

The whole thing runs on my own machine. Local speech models, an optional local LLM, nothing leaves the computer unless I turn on an online option. Free, and it works on Windows, Mac, and Linux.

I finally cleaned it up and open-sourced it. If it sounds useful, give it a try, and a star would honestly make my day. Would love to hear what you'd add to it.

repo: https://github.com/AbhishekBarali/SpeakoFlow

I liked using kiro-cli quite a bit but now it's useless. It's soo fucking annoying a empty cmd window pops out while I am using the kiro cli and the agent is doing something . It's fricking out right now when I am making this post. First I thought it was my pc fault and then I saw other people complaining similar issue and then I tested it in my laptop. Same issue after the new version update. Common guys if this is a common issue fix it . It makes your product boderline uselss. I am typing some other things and bamm a fricking empty cmd pops out and it stops everything. While I am at guys don't remove the /tools trust-all . It is a gotated features I don't seem to find it in v3 . the manual Auto Approve and those weird experimental features is hella unstable doens't work alll the time . When I have a lot of cli window my whole system is unsuable soo guys fixxxxx this isssueee ASAP

Nothing groundbreaking here, just sharing something that made my own setup easier.

I started doing game dev with AI agents like everyone's been doing lately, and the thing that got annoying fast was the skills. there's a ton of them, scattered all over, and i was downloading and managing a bunch separately and trying to remember which one to use for what. kind of a pain.

So I had the AI go research a bunch of them and build one combined pack from the official docs, and i added a little router that picks the right skill for whatever you're doing. so i'm not sitting there going "use the movement one, now the save one" . It just figures it out from your project.

I didn't reinvent anything. basically i combined a bunch of stuff into one place and made the picking automatic. covers the main engines plus the smaller things that actually helped me - game feel, saving, that kind of stuff. open source, works with whatever agent you use (claude code, cursor, kiro,codex, etc).

helped me a fair bit, might help you if you're doing game dev too. that's really about it.

[https://github.com/gamedev-skills/awesome-gamedev-agent-skills\](https://github.com/gamedev-skills/awesome-gamedev-agent-skills)

Guys my pocket 4 fell down on the carpet and now its like this. What should I do I tried to push it slightly but it didn't go inside. Everything works fine . Should I leave it as it is ?