VOICE · LOCAL✓ live · free

Whisper Writer

Hold a key, talk, let go — the text types itself wherever your cursor is. Local, private, $0. Shipped, open-source, yours today.

This tool is free. Learning to build it — and 20 others — is what the classes are for. the 24 classes →

The receipts

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

What you'd learn building it

The Classes · Basic Vibe Coding

Learn to build this — and the whole shelf.

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.

See the 24 classes