Observed arrival · 2026-09-28
vinoWhisper: Linux captions on an Intel NPU
A Linux tool for live captions and voice typing, running whisper-small.en locally on an Intel NPU.
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- For
- Linux laptop users with Intel NPUs who want local live captions or push-to-talk voice typing
- Worth noticing
- The page reports 0.70 seconds per 12-second window on one Wildcat Lake laptop, with roughly 1.5 seconds of audio lag.
Field notes
The transcript uses LocalAgreement-2: a word appears only after two overlapping windows agree, then remains fixed; tentative words sit on a separate “hearing…” line. Terminal output stays in scrollback and supports plain-text or JSON piping. The GUI can float over fullscreen video; holding Meta+H captures speech and types into the focused window, with clipboard fallback if typing fails. Setup lists Python 3.11–3.13, PipeWire or PulseAudio, and systemd.
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