Linux Mint / Libre Office Help!
Is there a dictation software (🚨supporting Swedish!🚨) that I can get for LibreOffice to save my hands when I'm note-taking for granny's diaries?
Boosts appreciated!
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@JenJen Handy might work for you. Not sure about the Swedish requirement; depends on the model you install.
@IzzyChambers
I will point out that both are slopcoded, but the whole STT field seem to be in the hands of slopfondlers :(
With #TheTokening comming this is additional risk, because the authors will have to learn to code (more) or the projects will be abandoned.
Not to mention the STT as a field.
https://github.com/cjpais/Handy/blob/main/AGENTS.md
https://github.com/EpicenterHQ/epicenter/blob/main/apps/whispering/AGENTS.md
@dzwiedziu @Digital_Coolie @JenJen Good point. I hadn't noticed that.
There is also Talon, which to my knowledge is slopfree, but has a very steep learning curve.
Hopefully helpful:
This flatpak app does speech to text and supports Swedish, but doesn't integrate directly with Libre Office.
I imagine copying the generated text and pasting it into Libre Office would be the workflow with this option.
@la_rosa
I use SpeechNote, more for translations, but I made attempts to transcribe notes from a dictaphone.
It has a useful feature that you can analyse audio files ad generate subtitle files with timestamps. Which makes corrections possible with a subtitle editor.
Edit: just be aware that the UX has some quirks.
@JenJen Give this one a chance
@ItalianSkeletonGaming
https://github.com/zugaldia/speedofsound/blob/main/CLAUDE.md
But see my caveats under a previous toot in this thread.
@JenJen i know its not exactly what you asked for, these are some of the best models trained on many swedish dialects.
https://huggingface.co/collections/KBLab/kb-whisper
There may be some pre built interfaces for using models like those. Recording your conversations and then running them through the model with a script may be the simplest solution. Then paste into libreoffice. My friends say its great but i haven’t tried it myself.
Cutting edge AI technology for automated audio transcription. A nice GUI for OpenAIs Whisper and pyannote (speaker identification) - kaixxx/noScribe
@JenJen For a project I'm just recording everything first, and then running it through whisper.cpp afterwards.
This works for French, Spanish, Dutch in my work. Swedish should perform OK I think.
Might be worth considering this split workflow. Added bonus is that if you are doing interviews you also save the original audio.
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