Re: Feasibility of speech recognition for note taking on dedicated laptop?
On 2020-11-04, rhkramer@gmail.com <rhkramer@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/
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