On 2020-11-04, rhkra...@gmail.com <rhkra...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wednesday, November 04, 2020 09:39:44 AM Richard Owlett wrote: >> I'm a lousy typist. Trying to make notes on a laptop does not work well >> because typing interrupts my train of thought. >> >> Many years ago when I was a Windows user and Dragon Naturally Speaking >> was in its initial release I followed speech recognition casually - but >> not recently. >> >> Are there now end-user, Debian compatible, dictation applications that >> do NOT require proprietary software nor internet connectivity? My >> internet searching turned up primarily old material or tool-set packages >> packages aimed at programmers creating their own packages. > > Did your Internet search turn up a package "produced" by Carnegie-Mellon? > > I don't remember the name of it, I'm not sure it is free, and I don't know if > it has continued to be developed. I never used it, but looked into it a > little back in the days when I used Dragon (a little).
Maybe this open source, Java (is that still a thing?) app that runs on Linux: http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/sphinx/dictator/
