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Edit the transcript in the overlay before it's pasted #1916
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Today the transcript is pasted at the cursor the instant transcription finishes. When the model mishears something (names, technical terms, a dropped word), the only option is to hunt the mistake down in the target app afterwards — which is clumsy in chat inputs, terminals, and form fields.
Proposal: an opt-in setting (Edit Before Paste, default off) that turns the overlay's transcript panel into a quick editor when transcription completes, instead of pasting immediately:
This is deliberately manual and offline — it complements the automated post-processing discussed in #168 (one commenter there asked for exactly this: "proper integration of manual correction – not LLM"). It reuses the existing overlay window; the main technical work is temporarily granting the (intentionally non-focusable) overlay keyboard focus during editing and releasing it before the paste keystroke fires.
I have a working implementation on a branch (
janakirampuli/Handy#feat/edit-transcript-in-overlay) and I'm happy to open a PR if there's interest.All reactions