Hex joins Omarchy’s dictation options on Dev, and dictation moves to Alt + Space
Anomaly’s local dictation app is now a third choice next to Superwhisper and Voxtype, and every dictation backend gets the same two keys.
Image: Hex (anoma.ly)
Dictation on Omarchy just got a new engine. “Made Hex available as a dictation option on Omarchy Dev,” DHH wrote on X on October 31, 2026, only hours after Hex’s stable release. He merged the pull request the same evening, so Hex is coming in the next version.
Hex is a voice dictation app from Anomaly, the team behind OpenCode. “Your voice is the best way to talk to them,” the OpenCode account posted on October 31 about coding agents, pitching Hex as fast, running locally, and working on Mac, Windows and Linux. The Hex website sums it up as “private, local voice dictation”: hold a shortcut, speak, and the text lands wherever your cursor is.
On Omarchy, Hex becomes a third dictation backend beside Superwhisper and Voxtype. You pick it in Setup > Defaults > Dictation and drop it in Remove > Dictation. According to the pull request, the installer adds the hex-bin package from Omarchy’s package repo, downloads the speech model in the terminal with hex model install, enables hex.service, then starts and selects Hex. Removing it stops the service and drops the package but keeps your settings, history and models in ~/.local/share/hex.
There’s a neat fix inside. According to the pull request, a live test with an AUR install showed that Hex recorded and transcribed fine, but its own paste is a bare Ctrl+V, which terminals ignore. So when you stop dictating, Omarchy now grabs the transcript with hex dictation stop --print and types it itself.
Two caveats from the pull request. That stop-and-type path “hasn’t been re-tested live yet.” And the installer depends on the hex-bin package and “fails until that package is published.” The package pull request, built from Hex 3.0.0, was merged the same evening.
The keys change too, for every backend. In a second pull request merged on October 31, DHH made Alt + Space the dictation toggle, taking over from Super + Ctrl + X, while Right Alt stays push-to-talk: hold to dictate, release to finish. F9 and Super + Ctrl + X are gone from new installs.
Already using dictation? A migration keeps your muscle memory: if you have a backend selected, it adds F9 and Super + Ctrl + X to ~/.config/hypr/bindings.lua, with a comment explaining how to remove them. Superwhisper users should note that its own toggle moves from Alt + Space to Ctrl + Alt + Space, so it doesn’t fire alongside Omarchy’s new key. The pull request says the tests pass and the migration was run twice against a throwaway home, but the new bindings were “not yet tried on a live desktop.”
