[Wispr Flow] Windows support for the Wispr Flow extension

[VijaySelvaraju]

Extension

https://www.raycast.com/carterm/wispr-flow

Description

Hello! I've been using the Wispr Flow extension with Raycast on Mac for the past few weeks, and it's been an amazing implementation that has actually improved my experience with Wispr Flow itself. Would it be possible to add Windows support as well?

Please feel free to skip the request if it's too complicated to port to a completely different operating system, but if you need any help with testing, I'll be happy to help.

Who will benefit from this feature?

All the Raycast for Windows users, who also use Wispr Flow:)

Anything else?

No response

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[YONN2222]

@VijaySelvaraju I had a look through the code. There are a few macOS-specific things, but I can try to add Windows support. I can't promise anything, though.

[VijaySelvaraju]

Hi @YONN2222 Thanks a lot for checking this! Appreciate that. No worries if it's too complicated or not worth the efforts.

The base extension on Mac has a lot of features that almost completely let's you manage WisprFlow through Raycast commands itself, but my main use case is the "Search Transcript" and "Paste Last Transcript" so if the extension could just support those two commands it would make a big difference!

[YONN2222]

I've got most of it working, just some database write permission issues left to fix!

[YONN2222]

Windows is (fully) working now, but I broke macOS… :/

Edit: Fixed macOS; now fixing some small Windows bugs, but overall the functionality is fully there on Windows.

[VijaySelvaraju]

Thanks a lot @YONN2222 , should I wait for an official merge to the main extension?

[YONN2222]

@VijaySelvaraju I’ll open a PR tonight (Berlin time). You can then follow the steps in the PR description to test it out, or you can wait until it gets merged, hopefully!

[VijaySelvaraju]

You are the best! Thanks a lot @YONN2222

[YONN2222]

@VijaySelvaraju Pull Request is open: #27021

[VijaySelvaraju]

Hi @YONN2222

I tested the extension on my Windows PC, and all the commands work except Open WisprFlow and the Start and Stop Recording commands. I get an error stating that Wisprflow is not installed, even though it is running in the background.

But the paste transcript and the dictionary management commands work like a charm, and it's already usable for me!

Also, my knowledge of how GitHub merges work is pretty limited, but I saw another Pull request for WisprFlow on the extensions store where someone had basically merged the start and stop recording into a single "Toggle recording" command, so that we can just use one hotkey to both start and stop,, will this affect your PR?