Speed of Sound is a voice-typing app for the Linux desktop.
By default, transcription runs entirely on-device, so no audio ever leaves your machine. The app ships with a built-in multilingual Whisper model and supports additional models from the Whisper, Parakeet, and Canary families to improve accuracy.
Please visit speedofsound.io/getting-started after installation.
Added a system tray icon with Start/Stop Listening, Open App, and Quit actions for quick control without opening the main window. New Disable Thinking option for LLM text providers reduces latency and cost on models that support reasoning, and a Test Connection button lets you verify credentials before saving. Fixed the app auto-quitting after a few seconds when "Stay hidden on activation" was enabled. Fixed a native resource leak where the Sherpa ONNX stream was not released on transcription failure. Updated Java-GI to 0.15.0 and Stargate to 0.5.0.
