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Updates on voice-to-text in Linux/GNOME lately? (self.linux)

submitted 11 months ago by cal4 to c/[email protected]

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Hey all,

I've been a Linux user for many years now, primarily on full featured GNOME and KDE desktop environments. However, as I've gotten older and developed arthritis in my hands, I've found myself relying more and more on Android for its easy and available voice-to-text keyboard input.

Being able to dictate messages is sometimes the only comfortable way to communicate. I don't want to have to switch over to Mac just to get usable system-wide voice input, but I have been considering it.

So I'm wondering if there have been any improvements on this front in recent Linux distros or GNOME releases? Last I checked a few years ago, the voice recognition and dictation options were still quite limited compared to mobile operating systems or Mac.

Are there any new solutions for Linux voice-to-text that works well across different apps either working now or in development? Have I overlooked any obvious choice?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

Nerd dictation is a simple to use and powerful voice-to-text utility that you can use to just type or you can script its output. In my experience it works quite well, although I don't really use it for dictation.

https://github.com/ideasman42/nerd-dictation

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

I don't think gnome has speech dictation support. That's too bad though because speech recognition in Linux is actually very good when using Faster Whisper library: https://github.com/guillaumekln/faster-whisper

[–] Life_inst_bad 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Maybe that is interesting for you? https://github.com/abb128/LiveCaptions (Found it from here) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=r09Hm2zd2lY

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/watch?v=r09Hm2zd2lY

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I remember this fella from FUTO coding something, here is the interview, maybe it is in a nice state now? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r09Hm2zd2lY

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/watch?v=r09Hm2zd2lY

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source, check me out at GitHub.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Been using talonvoice.com with some good success. Has a command mode for coding/navigating and a dictation mode.