Mastodawn

I was recently in a study skills workshop where speech to text software was discussed as helpful if you can say words more easily than you can type them.

Obviously being mainstream education, there were recommendations for Windows and macOS, but nothing else.

I want to go back to the accessibility team with suggestions, because if I complain they didn't have any they'll most likely say something insincere and then never do anything about that.

So, if you have #recommendations for free or low cost Speech to Text software for #Linux users, please could you share them with me?

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xanna Apr 21

@kittyboy77
cc @NatalyaD can you help?

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NatalyaD Apr 23

@xanna @kittyboy77

Off the top of my head I don't know of any speech to text stuff for Linux. One issue is that many win/Mac OS systems just use the same back-end as Nuance's Dragon. Or they're some kind of cloudy thing where your speech data is going to ??where and almost certainly all involving AI-training now.

Speech recognition is hard to do well and I've not yet come across a Linux program which had the necessary £££ and time investment.

I will boost your OP tho in case that helps.

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NatalyaD

@xanna @kittyboy77

I work with disabled uni students. When they can't get funding for Dragon or TalkType (the £££ dictation apps now) we recommend they play around with any kind of video call platform which has automated captions -> transcription and copy out the text from that. Our uni is deep in the Microshite Teams eco-system so some students talk-to-Teams set transcribing going and pull the text from that. Dunno if Google meet does transcribing. All of these have data goes ??? risk tho.