Holdkey Gives the Keyboard a Push-to-Talk Button

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Holdkey uses a push-to-talk workflow: place the cursor in a text field, hold Right Ctrl, speak, and release to insert the transcription. The page describes local recognition, cleanup, and vocabulary handling, with a tray interface for history and settings. Its example metrics include 106 milliseconds from key-up to text, 95% of text kept without edits, and under 100 MB of idle memory; the download is labeled an unsigned Windows alpha.