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Pasteface

Q: What is Pasteface?

Pasteface is a audio AI tool listed on Use AI Tools. Pasteface records, transcribes and copies speech from your terminal. It organises recordings into named transcript tabs, keeps recording while earlier chunks transcribe, and copies results to your clipboard, using whisper.cpp on your machine or the OpenAI transcription API.

Q: What is Pasteface best for?

Pasteface is commonly used for Dictating into a terminal workflow, Transcribing locally with whisper.cpp, Keeping several recordings in named tabs. It supports English.

Audio🔥 Intermediate✅ Global access

Dictating into a terminal workflowTranscribing locally with whisper.cppKeeping several recordings in named tabs

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Pasteface records, transcribes and copies speech from your terminal. It organises recordings into named transcript tabs, keeps recording while earlier chunks transcribe, and copies results to your clipboard, using whisper.cpp on your machine or the OpenAI transcription API.

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🎯 Real-World Use Cases

Record and queue

Space starts and stops recording, and stopping enqueues the chunk, so you can keep recording while earlier chunks transcribe.

Copy a transcript

C copies the selected tab transcript and E exports it, so a dictation session goes straight to the clipboard.

Choose the backend

Transcribe on your machine with whisper.cpp or use the OpenAI transcription API, depending on whether you want audio to leave the machine.

⚖️ Honest Review

✅ Pros

+Local whisper.cpp transcription as well as the OpenAI API
+Named transcript tabs and queued recordings
+Tray companion plus a terminal interface, with a tray-free build that drops the GTK dependencies

⚠️ Cons

−Linux and macOS only; Windows is not currently supported
−Source build with a Rust toolchain and FFmpeg, and macOS builds are ad-hoc signed rather than notarized

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