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mFat @lemdro.id

2y ago

Any decent voice typing options for Linux?

I know I can use Google's voice typing in Google Docs but is there a more convenient, system-wide options available?

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There's a FUTO project, I think it's this? https://github.com/abb128/LiveCaptions
There's an Android version that became available recently https://voiceinput.futo.org/ I'm just not sure which repo is the Linux original
- Wow. Nice. Any TTS for android? I don't like google services so i'm still missing something that can for example read back directions from Osmand. It needs to speak german, though. And english of course.
  
  I don't know, isn't TTS an AOSP feature in Android? As in, a foss part rather than a proprietary Google thing? Look into what alternatives like Graphene do about this.
- This is great.
  Typed with the Android app, I can't believe we already have something so good and so flexible that it gives the ability to select different models too!
  
  Yea it's totally dope, I re-found it just today. Sadly my old phone is hopelessly outgunned.
- Has anyone gotten the Andriod app working? I installed the APK and it will activate from OpenBoard and show that it's listening, but it won't actually output anything into a text field.
  
  Launch the FUTO Voice Input app first. It'll give you prompts you need to set it up.

To piggy back off this is there a good FOSS text to speech app for Android?
- A great suggestion over here!
  
  Link is dead. Do you remember what was discussed?

I recently tried this one:
https://flathub.org/apps/net.mkiol.SpeechNote

You may want to check out numen, targeted towards power-users.

For some time I have been lurking around this topic and for general computer use, including typing, talon seemed like the best option

I too would like to know.

Select something to type in, then press Windows key + H. Talk :)
Edit: Whoops, wrong community. For Linux you probably have to experiment with some options: https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-linux-speech-recognition-tools-open-source-software/

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