Stop Using Your Keyboard and Start Using Handy, a Free Speech-to-Text App

New York: If old sci-fi shows are correct, we all use computers wrong. Instead of typing, we should be talking! Just think of Captain Picard, who never touched a keyboard.

Computers can turn speech into text, but they often don’t do it well. Luckily, recent AI models like Nvidia’s Parakeet and OpenAI’s Whisper have improved speech-to-text greatly. They can even add punctuation and capitalization, which makes everything clearer. Using these tools feels like recording a captain’s log—it simply works!

The issue with these tools? Setting them up can be tricky. This is where Handy helps. Handy is a free app that makes it easy to set up these models on your computer. It was created by CJ Pais after he broke his finger and needed another way to type.

To get started with Handy, just download the free app, which is available for Windows, macOS, and Linux. After running the app, you can choose which model you want to use, and you’ll be ready to talk instead of type!