Free and Open Source Software @beehaw.org Count Regal Inkwell @pawb.social 3w ago

[Looking for software] voice recognition/dictation application that is FOSS

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Don't really want to give my soul to a tech megacorps, but I do a lot of writing for work and hobbies, and sometimes carpal tunnel gets the best of me.

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I don't know what platform you're using but for desktop linux I use Nerd Dictation and for android I use FUTO Keyboard, both are completely offline and FOSS.
- Ah sorry. Linux Desktop, yes.
  
  EDIT: I have now tested Nerd Dictation for a bit.
  
  I find it funny how the English model doesn't get a single word wrong, even through my 12 inch thick brazilian accent
  
  .... But the portuguese-brazilian model could barely understand anything I was saying.
  
  More an observation than anything. It amused me.
  
  Ah yes, the anglocentrism of software development. I gave up on Google translate years ago because it clearly only catered to English speakers. The other way around was such ham fisted mistranslations with English syntax, it was basically useless.
- i believe FUTO keyboard isn't FOSS
  
  You are right-ish
  
  They have a source-available license, which allows all modification and redistribution except modification and redistribution with commercial purposes.
  
  How you feel about that is up to you. Personally I feel like allowing commercial usage of the code is actually a major blindspot with the normal FOSS licenses, as it leaves the doors open for TiVoization.

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