Flatsonar

Whis

by Frank Dierolf

Turn speech into text

Broad permissions Verified creator MIT v0.7.2
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About

Whis transcribes your voice and copies the text to your clipboard. Press a shortcut, speak, release—your words are ready to paste anywhere.

Choose cloud transcription for speed or local transcription for privacy. Local mode works fully offline.

Features:

  • Global keyboard shortcut
  • Cloud or local transcription
  • AI post-processing to transform text into emails, prompts, or custom formats

Permissions

1 permission weaken the sandbox. Flatsonar asks before installing.

  • X11 display: X11 lets apps read input and windows of other apps
    --socket=x11
  • network
    --share=network
  • inter-process communication (needed for X11)
    --share=ipc
  • Wayland display
    --socket=wayland
  • audio
    --socket=pulseaudio
  • X11 display, only when Wayland is unavailable
    --socket=fallback-x11
  • GPU acceleration
    --device=dri
  • system tray
    --talk-name=org.kde.StatusNotifierWatcher

Who publishes this

The creator demonstrably controls this app id: Flathub verification, the hosting account owns the namespace, or a well-known file on their domain.

  • installs a prebuilt binary instead of building from source (x4)
    source:prebuilt
  • verified on Flathub: the developer proved they control this app id
    publisher:flathub

Maintenance

Recent activity on the upstream repository, or built and reviewed by Flathub.

No staleness signals: recent activity, or built and reviewed by Flathub.