Handy: privacy-preserving open-source speech-to-text
(2026-03-03)I’ve recently discovered Handy, a small speech-to-text (dictation) application, that is open source and can use only local AI models on Linux, preserving the privacy of what I’m saying out loud by not sending it to some cloud servers. I found it handy (lol), so I figured that I could share some hardships that I’ve run into while setting it up on ArchLinux.