Hold a key, talk, let go — the text types itself wherever your cursor is. Local, private, $0. Shipped, open-source, yours today.
Local speech-to-text turns every AI tool into a voice tool for free — and you think out loud better than you write. The catch: on Windows it refuses to start, and the error is a lie. The missing DLL isn’t missing; it’s in your venv and the loader won’t look there. Nine lines fix it. This is the fork where they’re already applied, GPU and CPU paths both verified from a clean install.
Read the full field guide — every scar, runnable code→24 interactive classes on shipping real tools with Claude Code and a terminal — the same process that built this shelf, not a drag-and-drop toy track.
Every class ends with a working artifact you keep. The proof it works? You're looking at it — this whole shelf was built that way.
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