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?

@kittyboy77
cc @NatalyaD can you help?

@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.

@NatalyaD @xanna Thank you