Vrcstt

"VRCSTT," Aris said. "Initialize Handshake Protocol."

Aris felt the spike of the connection jam into his nervous system. Suddenly, he wasn't in the tower. He was in the data stream. He could feel the chaos the boy had unleashed—a storm of raw emotion and broken code. He navigated the torrent, hunting for the boy's signal. vrcstt

Free, open-source (MIT License). Cloud API keys (DeepL, Google STT) require your own free/paid tier accounts. "VRCSTT," Aris said

: Converts your spoken words into text using various engines like Google Cloud Speech or Azure Speech Services. hunting for the boy's signal. Free

It was a child.