Hint: At this point I'd recommend using ideasman42/nerd-dictation
It was developed roughly at the same time and has a number of advantages, namely:
- it's faster due to using streaming capabilities
- when used with shortcut activation it avoids potential problems with voice activation
- supports wayland
Hint 2: Currently this needs a patched version of Uberi/speech_recognition that includes this pull request: Vosk api: allow selecting different models and automatic model download #657
Hint 3: I switched to using ideasman42/nerd-dictation and I'm not maintaining or updating this project for the time being. I'm leaving it here for reference purposes.
Linux speech-to-text tool w/ system tray
Once running, spoken text will be typed at the current cursor location.
Limitation: Currently this is supporting X-Windows (not Wayland) due to limitation in pynput.
This is based on the python package Uberi/speech_recognition. It now uses Vosk API (default) and Google Speech Recognition service as backends. Other speech recognition backends are supported by Uberi/speech_recognition but currently not implemented here.
Currently the version including this pull request is used.
I recommend using a virtual environment. However, for the system tray tk has to be installed system-wide:
sudo apt-get install python3-tk
git clone the Repository or download the zip file and unzip it. And change into the directory.
git clone https://github.com/rebootl/linux-speech-typer.git
cd speech-typer-gui/
Setup and activate the virtual environment (optional):
python3 -m venv env --system-site-packages
. env/bin/activate
Install dependencies:
pip3 install -r requirements.txt
Start:
./speech-typer-gui.py
The terminal should say listening and you should see the tray icon in the system tray.
To launch it in one step use: /path-to-installation/env/bin/python /path-to-installation/speech-typer-gui.py
Different language tags and replacements can be configured in config.py.
Find the relevant language codes here: https://cloud.google.com/speech-to-text/docs/languages
The words in the keys dictionary (list) will be executed as corresponding keystrokes.
Please adjust it to your liking.