Handy – Free open source speech-to-text app

Re:Handy – Free open source speech-to-text app by chainmail2029 on Thursday January 15, 2026 @02:47AM (#46629387)

There's a slightly awkward naming overlap with an existing product.

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Re:Handy – Free open source speech-to-text app by unwind on Thursday January 15, 2026 @03:01AM (#46629507)

Which one? I did a quick search but that didn't turn up anything so perhaps it's a partial word overlap or something.

I did find the projects "user-facing" home page [1] which was nice. I found it rather hard to find a link from that to the code on GitHub, which was surprising.

[1]: https://handy.computer/

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Re:Handy – Free open source speech-to-text app by DomB on Thursday January 15, 2026 @03:09AM (#46629577)

It's the German word for smart phone / mobile phone

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Re:Handy – Free open source speech-to-text app by zavec on Thursday January 15, 2026 @03:26AM (#46629703)

There's also a sex toy

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Re:Handy – Free open source speech-to-text app by ensocode on Thursday January 15, 2026 @03:03AM (#46629521)

This is a slightly German-centric comment.

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