Hold the key, talk, let go, and the words appear in whatever window has focus. It runs faster-whisper at int8 on the CPU — tiny, base or small, your call — so no audio leaves the machine and there is no key to paste in. Linux on both X11 and Wayland, macOS, Windows. The calibrated silence gate and dysfluency-friendly filtering are in there because stuttered speech was a design input, not a bug report.