Show HN: I built a local STT tool to brain-dump into Claude Code

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a year ago

Claude Code is great with detailed context, but I got tired of typing long prompts in the terminal all the time. I wanted local speech-to-text (STT) tool that actually worked in the terminal, so I built `hns`. It pipes your speech directly to your clipboard as text and uses faster-whisper for transcription.

```

$ hns # start recording

<talk>

<Enter> # clipboard now holds the text

```

Now I can ramble for 2 minutes about a refactor and paste the whole brain-dump into Claude Code.

Also handy for emails, Slack messages, or feeding messy thoughts to any LLM. Nothing leaves your machine, works offline after first model download, MIT licensed.

Install: `uv tool install hns` or `pipx install hns`

Repo + demo: https://github.com/primaprashant/hns