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. > > Comments or suggestions?
Again one of these topics, where people post about software they do not actually use. Let me comment here my impressions. I studied speech processing and wrote my thesis on dialog systems in 2007. Until about 2005 there were still some open source tools like ViaVoice by IBM. Basically all of this was dropped by 2010 - no idea why - might be something related to Google/Amazon, costs, patents or whatever else. I have not heard or seen any useful Linux tool - I mean not something like Alexa that would send the audio recorded on the device to NSA for processing. One of the problems is surely the complexity and hardware requirements to run such tool (I mean a dialog engine like Alexa). However I do not understand why the linux community does not have a usable STT application as even 10+y ago there were usable tools for windows. And here we come to the original question. I have seen and tested some of the windows tools 10+y ago. They implement some type of learning, adapting themselves to the way you speak etc. In 2-3 months period the success rate goes to 95-98%. Price back then was affordable - AFAIR 200-400 US My advise, if you need such tool - look for commercial applications and forget the linux crap. I am willing to convince myself in the opposite, but looking what happens on the linux scene ... I've lost faith
