# watzon/sayso

> A cross-platform dictation app for macOS, Windows and Linux that runs speech-to-text locally: press a hotkey, speak, and the text is pasted into the focused application.

- Magnitude: 1.1 out of 10 — Quiet
- Stars: 19 total · +1 star measured 2026-10-13, 20:02–22:33 UTC
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Apps · Language: Rust · License: GPL-3.0 · Created: 2026-10-02 · Last push: 2026-10-11
- GitHub: https://github.com/watzon/sayso · Homepage: https://justsayso.app · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/watzon/sayso

## Useful for

- Dictate text into any app via a push-to-talk hotkey without switching windows
- Pick and download a local speech model (Whisper, Parakeet and others) per platform
- Apply an AI style to clean up or rewrite transcripts before they are pasted

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-13 (UTC), 20:02–22:33: 18 → 19 stars (+1). This is the change over that interval.
- The repository is 11 days old and already has 19 stars. With less than two weeks of history, there's no usual pace to compare the spike against yet.
- Hacker News: “Show HN: Sayso, free open source dictation for Mac, Windows, and Linux” — 10 points, 6 h ago.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 1
- Issues and pull requests: 13
- Watchers: 0
- Average over the last week: 1 per day
- Usual pace: too little history (under two weeks)
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 0
- Latest release: v0.7.1 (2026-10-11)

## Stars per day, last 12 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-10-02 … 2026-10-13: 1, 1, 4, 4, 3, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1

## Hacker News

- Show HN: Sayso, free open source dictation for Mac, Windows, and Linux — 10 points, 6 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50073755

## Spotted in now

- Spotted on Hacker News

## Similar by description

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   Cross-platform desktop app for offline speech-to-text: press a hotkey, speak, and the transcription is pasted into the active text field. Runs locally with Whisper or Parakeet, no cloud.
   Full card: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/cjpais/Handy.md
2. **opennookorg/betterwispr** — 4.7 · Early signal · Apps · Swift · +23 stars measured 2026-10-13, 00:01–22:24 UTC
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   Full card: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/opennookorg/betterwispr.md

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-10-13 22:36 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.