@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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