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Voice to text in linux -SOLVED

Postby adhefe » Aug 23rd, '21, 04:24

I've heard of some voice to text apps that are supposed to work on Linux. Among them, Simon seems to be related to KDE. Are there Mageia packages to it or to any other open source equivalent already available in repos or in current development?

Thanks a lot
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Re: Voice to text in linux

Postby doktor5000 » Aug 23rd, '21, 17:44

Most people usually want text-to-speech, and not speech-to-text. Are you really sure that's what you want, and could you provide an example usecase ?

There are only really few speech-to-text implemenation which are easily usable, the best might probably be vosk, check e.g. https://unix.stackexchange.com/question ... -for-linux
You're probably better of using your smartphone for voice recognition and sending the resulting text to your PC.
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Re: Voice to text in linux

Postby adhefe » Aug 23rd, '21, 21:14

Thanks for the replies,

The idea is to prevent RSI and this requires speech-to-text. Orca does the the opposite: text to speech for people with visual impairments.
The smartphone option means someone else will be listening everything "in-the-middle".

Well, I don't understand what an example usecase would be but MS Office users have a dictating option in Word that performs reasonably well even with my native language.

I'll check for vosk as well

Thanks again
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Re: Voice to text in linux

Postby adhefe » Aug 26th, '21, 19:33

Hi,
Now I am testing vosk and nerd-dictation. This is not as good as it could be and I have to correct lots of misunderstandings, but english is not my native language and this could be a result of my accent. Tests in my language also demand corrections but even so it is of great help. In summary, it works anyway and IMHO it would be really a good idea to have this applications in mageia repos. I think that an experienced programmer could set this applications so as to be used in several office softwares like libreoffice, texstudio, etc.

I'll mark this as SOLVED,

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