AI Hotkey Assistant: Desktop AI

AI Hotkey Assistant: Desktop AI Tool Copy-pasting to ChatGPT dozens of times a day was killing my focus: select text, switch tabs, paste, wait, copy the result, switch back, paste again. I built a Windows desktop tool that collapses the whole loop into one hotkey.

Select any text anywhere, press a hotkey, and it is transformed in place by the AI service of your choice, using your own prompt files: fix spelling, rewrite, translate, summarize, or anything you can describe in a prompt. A second hotkey path reads any selected text aloud through text-to-speech, with keyboard control of the audio.

The app lives in the system tray with a full settings interface: multiple AI services (any OpenAI-compatible API, plus ElevenLabs for voice), per-action hotkeys, prompts as editable files, and model lists fetched from each provider. API keys are stored in the Windows credential manager, never in a config file.

Built for my own workflow and shipped as v2.0.0.

Stack: Python, pywin32 (global hotkeys + tray), customtkinter (settings UI), keyring (credentials), OpenAI-compatible chat APIs, ElevenLabs TTS.