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Anyone have a good suggestion for Linux dictation software? My friend wants to switch to Linux but he does all his writing with Dragon NaturallySpeaking.
by chongli 1y ago
Anyone have a good suggestion for Linux dictation software? My friend wants to switch to Linux but he does all his writing with Dragon NaturallySpeaking.
- itsn0tm3 1y agoHow about OpenAIs whisper[0]? My social science friends tell me it‘s been great for them. Not sure whether data privacy et all would be an issue of course, but I guess you can just run it locally :) [0]https://github.com/openai/whisper https://github.com/openai/whisper
- vorticalbox 1y agoyou can run whisper locally on your machine.
- antiloper 1y agoDragon is an app, whisper is a model with a CLI that takes .wav files. Totally different user experience.
- bmn__ 1y agoDragon in Wine. A lot of the Talon users do it that way.
- chongli 1y agoOkay the fact that Talon Linux use Dragon via Wine successfully is a big vote of confidence. I was reluctant to recommend that to my friend after seeing Wine's status page for Dragon but I'll give it a go!
- kwar13 1y agoIf you run gnome then I made this: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/8238/gnome-speech2text/ https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/8238/gnome-speech2tex...