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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by SuspiciousCarrot78@aussie.zone to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

I'm starting to develop arthritis in my fingers, which makes typing an interesting challenge.

I'm wondering, what is the best self-hosted solution for speech-to-text generally? Dragon dictate use to be the thing, but is there anything open source, self-hostable that's superseded it?

I would love to be able to have something that I can speak into that can interact with pretty much any app, be that notepad++, or my web browser when I'm entering stuff or even when I'm creating this Lemmy post (which I actually made using futo voice on my phone).

Windows and/or Linux ideally.

Any leads? Getting old sucks.

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[-] rowinxavier@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

A quick question, what accent do you have? As an Aussie I have real trouble speaking naturally with most speech to text software, open or closed source. I feel like the guys in that Scottish sketch show in the voice activated elevator. I sometimes use voice dictation for my notes for work and I spend almost as much time correcting as I do speaking.

That said, I have found a perfect solution. I can get well over the 95% correct mark by simply using an English or American accent. I can do both fairly well and the speech to text has no complaints. I imagine someone from Boston would have a tonne of trouble being understood, as would a Welsh person, but pretending to be a Californian or similar can help immensely.

I would love to find something that can be trained by my speech like Dragon Naturally Speaking used to be. I used that in the early 2000s and at first it was awful, but training it for a few hours really did offer a noticeable improvement, and ongoing use continued to improve further. My computer died and I lost all the trained data, so I never went back, but if I could I would definitely do that again.

[-] irmadlad@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

I feel like the guys in that Scottish sketch show in the voice activated elevator.

Just to say, that is a hilarious sketch. ELEVEN!

[-] IratePirate@feddit.org 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

You need to try an American accent.

Link to source.

[-] irmadlad@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I would say that 95% of the comedy I enjoy is not on American TV but 'overseas' humor. There's just something that resonates with me. I grew up very multi-culturally, living all over the world as a young lad. I feel like I don't even belong in America. I'm not even fond of American sports. (gasp!)

[-] SuspiciousCarrot78@aussie.zone 1 points 2 months ago

Aussie too - same issue with having to fake accent sometimes :)

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