Best speech to text for arthritic fingers? [SOLVED: using Handy] (aussie.zone)

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I'm starting to develop arthritis in my fingers, which makes typing an interesting challenge.

I'm wondering, what is the best self-hosted solution for speech-to-text generally? Dragon dictate use to be the thing, but is there anything open source, self-hostable that's superseded it?

I would love to be able to have something that I can speak into that can interact with pretty much any app, be that notepad++, or my web browser when I'm entering stuff or even when I'm creating this Lemmy post (which I actually made using futo voice on my phone).

Windows and/or Linux ideally.

Any leads? Getting old sucks.

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[-] probable_possum@leminal.space 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I can't contribute much. Futo Keyboard is nice for android. Speech Note is a tool for linux that I use from time to time... It is a bit slow without GPU acceleration and the resulting text are about 95% correct.

Have you read this comparison? https://openwhispr.com/blog/best-dictation-tools-linux-2026... It smells a bit like advertising for openwhispr but contains some pointers.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5d_jGOGRSMc&t=16m55s. After a while of talking he mentions KDE connect remote input which could be used with futo keyboard dictation, I guess?

[-] SuspiciousCarrot78@aussie.zone 1 points 3 months ago

openwhispr

Second time today that has come up - I better go look. Cheers!

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