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Re:Reasons to switch from Windows to Linux by tmalsburg2 on Friday October 22, 2021 @10:26AM (#28957609)
What speech recognition system did you use on Linux? I'm interested in using speech recognition more after getting used to it on iOS devices (where it works amazingly well).
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Re:Reasons to switch from Windows to Linux by earthtolazlo on Friday October 22, 2021 @10:35AM (#28957741)
I had the most success using Dragonfly with the Kaldi engine, which handles the heavy lifting of speech recognition and provides a nice API on top of xdotool for desktop interaction. You can also check out Talon, although I think its Linux support is still somewhat experimental.
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Re:Reasons to switch from Windows to Linux by tmalsburg2 on Friday October 22, 2021 @12:39PM (#28959377)
Thank 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

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