Show HN: WhisperWriter – Speech-to-text using OpenAI's Whisper, coded by ChatGPT

• whisper-writer

  2 188 6.6 Python

  💬📝 A small dictation app using OpenAI's Whisper speech recognition model.

• playlist-gpt

  2 14 5.5 Python

  🎶👩‍💻 A fun little web app that analyzes your Spotify playlists with help from OpenAI's language models.

I have a disability that makes it painful to type on a keyboard. As a software engineer, this has a considerable impact on my daily life. I've tried using the built-in Windows dictation tools, but they are very buggy and extremely frustrating to use. I was actually getting pretty close to quitting tech as a whole because of all the difficulties I would run into when trying to code. But I recently started playing around with AI coding assistants – and they've been a complete game-changer for me.

Last month, I made a small web app for fun, entirely coded by GPT (<https://github.com/savbell/playlist-gpt>). Since AI wrote most of the code, it required minimal keyboard use on my end – but I still needed to type up the prompts, which was causing me significant pain. I'd heard about OpenAI recently releasing a speech recognition model called Whisper, but nobody had written a dictation app using it yet. So I decided to continue to test out GPT's programming abilities and used it to write my own speech-to-text app that now vastly outperforms the built-in Windows ones! (At least, for my specific use cases.) I now use WhisperWriter every day for almost anything that I need to type, such as prompting ChatGPT – and even writing out this post!

The process:

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