I’m starting to develop arthritis in my fingers, which makes typing an interesting challenge.

I’m wondering, what is the best self-hosted solution for speech-to-text generally? Dragon dictate use to be the thing, but is there anything open source, self-hostable that’s superseded it?

I would love to be able to have something that I can speak into that can interact with pretty much any app, be that notepad++, or my web browser when I’m entering stuff or even when I’m creating this Lemmy post (which I actually made using futo voice on my phone).

Windows and/or Linux ideally.

Any leads? Getting old sucks.

  • theorangeninja@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    11 hours ago

    I used Speed of Sound for a bit on desktop linux and after triggering the global shortcut it pastes the text where you have your cursor. You can use cloud models, local network hosted models or just download whisper/parakeet directly in the app. Worked great for me so far.

    If you want to try something else on your phone you can try Outspoke.