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Written by Crow on 2025-01-07 at 21:20

Is there an FOSS alternative to dragon naturally speaking, that hopefully does not rely upon ridiculous ai LLM technology that is burning the planet?

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Written by Kathy Reid on 2025-01-07 at 23:11

@Crow The short answer is "sort of".

If we break down Dragon Naturally Speaking (which is now Nuance, which was purchased by Microsoft in April 2021 for $16 billion, so it's Microsoft), it has two broad functions.

One is speech recognition, for which there are freely available but not really open source options, primarily Whisper.

The second is controlling the desktop through speech, where the main one I'm aware of is Linux Voice Control, although I haven't used it. I am fairly sure it uses Whisper under the hood, as evidenced by

https://github.com/omegaui/linux-voice-control/blob/c9238684d0dee6a42befb2034b4e73e007328a9d/requirements.txt#L9

https://github.com/omegaui/linux-voice-control

Happy to answer more Q's and thanks for the flag, @nnye !

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