Have you seen this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_recognition_software_for_Linux
On Fri, Nov 6, 2020 at 5:36 AM Richard Owlett <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm a lousy typist. Trying to make notes on a laptop does not work well > because typing interrupts my train of thought. > > Many years ago when I was a Windows user and Dragon Naturally Speaking > was in its initial release I followed speech recognition casually - but > not recently. > > Are there now end-user, Debian compatible, dictation applications that > do NOT require proprietary software nor internet connectivity? My > internet searching turned up primarily old material or tool-set packages > packages aimed at programmers creating their own packages {e.g. Sphinx}. > > I asked on the debian-user list and received comments from some with > interest in speech recognition (but not users). I was pointed to > Mozilla's DeepSpeech [1][2]. May not be ready to use "out of the box", > but seems pointed in the right direction. > > Comments or suggestions? > TIA > > [1] https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech > [2] https://commonvoice.mozilla.org/ > {apparently expects Firefox with JavaScript] > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug _______________________________________________ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
