Is there anything out there that be used in any application or terminal?
I’ve used Sayboard and Whisper, and liked both of them. Sayboard is faster, Whisper handles punctuation better.
Not sure about your specific needs, but I saw this recently:
Requires X11, doesn’t work well on wayland.
I use Talon Voice
I never used this, but what an interesting question. KDE connect seems to be able to input text from voice.
True, you could use text input and some voice input on the phone, like FUTO voice input
https://github.com/Manish7093/IBus-Speech-To-Text
I tried this in Fedora/Wayland previously, and it seems to work in most applications. It uses “VOSK” models which the GUI can download automatically - you just pick your language and desired model size when setting it up.
When I was exploring this a few months ago, I noticed speech recognition models have moved on quite recently (e.g. https://github.com/openai/whisper which can be run locally) but didn’t see anything integrating it into an input-method like the above.
If you do not have a real-time requirement, and a bad CPU/GPU I can recommend whispercpp. https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp
It is quite fast and can transcribe with timestamps. I guess if you have a fast CPU/GPU this transcription can happen faster than real-time.
Well, I tinkered around a bit with Speech Note which has a good amount of features and is easy to install as a Flatpak. I think it has an option to do this, but requires a bit off fiddling, an extra tool and permissions for the Flatpak. I didn’t find any software with a particularly good integration into the Desktop, though.
Also read about Blahst but didn’t try it yet. Maybe that one is an option.
