ANants_everywhere·Sep 16, 2024
nerd-dictation is a decent offline speech dictation tool for Linux that I've used with Emacs https://github.com/ideasman42/nerd-dictation
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nerd-dictation
Simple, hackable offline speech to text - using the VOSK-API.
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9 sourcesNerd dictation is a purely on-device speech to text program that works pretty well if your computer is fast enough.
https://github.com/ideasman42/nerd-dictation
get speech models here:
https://github.com/alphacep/vosk-api
HN discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29972579
In Ask HN: Any technical reasons Google Docs can't do voice typing in Firefox?In case it's of interest, when I last explored this topic in terms of the Free/Open Source ecosystem I was very impressed with how well VOSK-API performed: https://github.com/alphacep/vosk-api
Here's another project that builds on top of VOSK to provide a tighter integration with Linux: https://github.com/ideasman42/nerd-dictation
In NaturalSpeech: End-to-end text to speech synthesis with human-level qualityI will add https://github.com/coqui-ai/STT, which is a continuation of DeepSpeech. Also, I've been messing around with https://github.com/ideasman42/nerd-dictation, which works on a VOSK backend - accuracy is decent, especially with the bigger model.
In DeepSpeech 60x Smaller, 9x faster, and 2x accuracystart using voice for typing, you can speak faster than you can type
https://github.com/ideasman42/nerd-dictation
In Ask HN: How to Learn to Type Faster?I’ve been messing around with https://github.com/ideasman42/nerd-dictation which, with the big model, gives surprisingly accurate local detections. Definitely more diy/hacker focused than actually being a solution though.
In Ask HN: Why is there no high quality method for voice control of a PC?Nerd-dictation, hackable speech to text on Linux
202 points · Open discussionThank you. These keywords (Kaldi, Dragonfly) put me on the right track and I found nerd-dictation [1] which is easy to use and hackable. Perhaps not useful for your programming purposes, but I need something for writing prose and it's a decent start for that.
[1] https://github.com/ideasman42/nerd-dictation
In Reasons to switch from Windows to LinuxNerd Dictation: Speech to Text on Linux Using VOSK-SDK
2 points · Open discussion