handy(1)
| HANDY(1) | User Commands | HANDY(1) |
NAME
handy - manual page for handy 0.9.5
SYNOPSIS
handy [OPTIONS]
DESCRIPTION
Handy - Speech to Text
OPTIONS
- --start-hidden
- Start with the main window hidden
- --no-tray
- Disable the system tray icon
- --toggle-transcription
- Toggle transcription on/off (sent to running instance)
- --toggle-post-process
- Toggle transcription with post-processing on/off (sent to running instance)
- --cancel
- Cancel the current operation (sent to running instance)
- --debug
- Enable debug mode with verbose logging
- -f, --transcribe-file <WAV>
- Transcribe this WAV (16 kHz mono) headlessly and exit. Runs the same batch transcription path as the app ??? no mic, no VAD, no download (the model must already be installed)
- --model <MODEL>
- Model id to load for --transcribe-file (default: the selected model)
- --device-index <N>
- Hard-select the compute device for --transcribe-file by its registry index (see --list-devices). Omit to use the persisted accelerator setting. transcribe-cpp (whisper-family) models only
- --list-devices
- List the transcribe-cpp compute devices (with indices) and exit
- --list-models
- List the available models (with ids) and exit. Pass an id to --model. Honors --json for machine-readable output
- --repeat <N>
- Repeat the transcription N times (best_ms reports the fastest run)
- --json
- Emit --transcribe-file results as JSON
- -h, --help
- Print help
| September 2026 | handy 0.9.5 |
