About Flunkey
Reimagining voice-driven workflows on Windows.
Flunkey was conceived to solve a simple problem: standard voice dictation tools are either clunky, require heavy background processes, or send your personal voice recordings to remote servers for processing and advertising profiles.
By combining Tauri (a secure, lightweight Rust desktop wrapper) with the high-speed Groq API, Flunkey provides instant dictation and contextual AI help without bloat or privacy compromises.
Core Architecture
Tauri Desktop Backend
Written in Rust, the Tauri backend handles global hotkeys (F8 and F9), manages native Windows overlay window coordinate positions, and stores data securely inside your Windows system directory.
React & TypeScript UI
The frontend provides a fast dashboard interface, session-by-session chat inspectors, transcripts search log, customizable keybind configurations, and the real-time AI response overlay panel.
Groq API Integrations
Leverages Groq Whisper models for speech transcription and Groq LLMs (like Llama 3) for streaming answers. Delivers speed that makes voice queries feel like immediate local calculations.
Bring Your Own Key
Flunkey operates completely serverless. You configure your own Groq API key directly in the app. No subscription middleman, paying only for what you transcribe.
Security & Data Integrity
All user data (including transcription history, chat logs, customized preferences, and the Groq API key) is stored locally on your device in the Windows AppData directory. Flunkey contains no telemetry, collects no remote analytics, and establishes no connection to external web servers except for direct API calls to Groq.