ShellVoice Gives the Mac a Voice

Field notes

The workflow centers on a menu-bar utility that captures speech with a global ⌥ Space shortcut and inserts the transcript at the current cursor; failed insertion leaves the text on the clipboard. The page attributes local transcription to whisper.cpp with Metal acceleration and describes a technical vocabulary layer that turns “use query” into “useQuery.” Its speech output can use Piper or existing macOS voices, while the CLI example lets a build announce “Build finished.”