YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs

Re:YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard W... by chongli on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @06:44AM (#45745048)

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.

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Re:YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard W... by itsn0tm3 on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @06:56AM (#45745139)

How 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

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Re:YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard W... by vorticalbox on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @07:17AM (#45745311)

you can run whisper locally on your machine.

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Re:YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard W... by antiloper on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @10:03AM (#45746978)

Dragon is an app, whisper is a model with a CLI that takes .wav files. Totally different user experience.

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Re:YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard W... by bmn__ on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @07:13AM (#45745269)

Dragon in Wine. A lot of the Talon users do it that way.

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Re:YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard W... by chongli on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @06:41PM (#45754035)

Okay 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!

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Re:YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard W... by kwar13 on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @03:32PM (#45751876)

If you run gnome then I made this: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/8238/gnome-speech2tex...

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