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 Dragon dictate use to be the thing, but is there anything open source, self-hostable that’s superseded it?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.


the only guy i have doing dictation into a pc (and not into a special system like for medical records) regularly uses dragon on windows using a somewhat expensive microphone, a setup he’s had for probably 30 years. he has one of those old-timey radio host voices, that might help some… but i rarely ever see him having to edit what dragon spits out