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Don’t really want to give my soul to a tech megacorps, but I do a lot of writing for work and hobbies, and sometimes carpal tunnel gets the best of me.
I don’t know what platform you’re using but for desktop linux I use Nerd Dictation and for android I use FUTO Keyboard, both are completely offline and FOSS.
Ah sorry. Linux Desktop, yes.
EDIT: I have now tested Nerd Dictation for a bit.
I find it funny how the English model doesn’t get a single word wrong, even through my 12 inch thick brazilian accent
… But the portuguese-brazilian model could barely understand anything I was saying.
More an observation than anything. It amused me.
Was gunna’ mention FUTO’s keyboard but then I saw your response to Whisper.
What about Speech Note? I have used it for transcription of Zoom calls and it does a pretty good job! GitHub link
Gave it a shot too (it even has an option to use the same language model as nerd-dictation cited by another poster)
It works. Once again, works very well in english and just gives up in portuguese.
I guess I’ll just have to accept that computers are anglo-only tools. [cackles]
Uhhh is that not pretty much the definition of a “tech megacorp”?
Teeeeeeeeeechnically what they linked is for running the AI model inside your own machine, and so not much is given to OpenAI when you do so other than I guess attention.
… But yes, they are absolutely a tech megacorp. It then depends on how you define “giving your soul” when it pertains to said tech megacorp.
