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Simple, hackable offline speech to text - using the VOSK-API.

9 mentions on Hacker News by 7 people: 2 stories, 7 comments · first 2021-05-31 · latest 2024-09-16

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  1. nerd-dictation is a decent offline speech dictation tool for Linux that I've used with Emacs https://github.com/ideasman42/nerd-dictation
    comment by ants_everywhere · 2024-09-16 · in Speech Dictation Mode for Emacs
  2. …a purely on-device speech to text program that works pretty well if your computer is fast enough. https://github.com/ideasman42/nerd-dictation get speech models here: https://github.com/alphacep/vosk-api HN discussion:…
    comment by sillystuff · 2022-08-07 · in Ask HN: Any technical reasons Google Docs can't do voice typing in Firefox?
  3. …Here's another project that builds on top of VOSK to provide a tighter integration with Linux: https://github.com/ideasman42/nerd-dictation
    comment by follower · 2022-05-18 · in NaturalSpeech: End-to-end text to speech synthesis with human-level quality
  4. …, which is a continuation of DeepSpeech. Also, I've been messing around with https://github.com/ideasman42/nerd-dictation , which works on a VOSK backend - accuracy is decent, especially with the bigger model.
    comment by rileyphone · 2022-03-09 · in DeepSpeech 60x Smaller, 9x faster, and 2x accuracy
  5. start using voice for typing, you can speak faster than you can type https://github.com/ideasman42/nerd-dictation
    comment by newusertoday · 2022-02-07 · in Ask HN: How to Learn to Type Faster?
  6. I’ve been messing around with https://github.com/ideasman42/nerd-dictation which, with the big model, gives surprisingly accurate local detections. Definitely more diy/hacker focused than actually being a solution though.
    comment by rileyphone · 2022-01-28 · in Ask HN: Why is there no high quality method for voice control of a PC?
  7. …programming purposes, but I need something for writing prose and it's a decent start for that. [1] https://github.com/ideasman42/nerd-dictation
    comment by tmalsburg2 · 2021-10-22 · in Reasons to switch from Windows to Linux