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I built a free offline dictation app for Linux. Hold a key, talk, and it types. (lemmy.world)
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I've been working on this for a little over a year. It's called TuxTalk. You hold F8, talk, let go, and it types what you said into whatever window you're in. Everything runs on your own computer, nothing gets sent anywhere.

It used to be called TalkType. Turned out another company owns that name, so it got renamed a few days ago.

By default it uses the Parakeet speech model, which is fast even on the processor, and it can use your graphics card if you have one, AMD and Intel included. Whisper models are there too if you need more languages. I use it on KDE Plasma under Wayland, and it works on GNOME and X11 as well. There's an AppImage, a .deb and an .rpm, and it's on the AUR.

Full disclosure, I build camper vans for a living, so this is a hobby project. It's free and MIT licensed. What I'd really like is feedback, especially from anyone on a distro I haven't tested.

There's a short video on the site: https://ronb1964.github.io/TuxTalk
Code: https://github.com/ronb1964/TuxTalk
Questions or problems: https://github.com/ronb1964/TuxTalk/discussions

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[–] [S] 6 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Fair point, and I should have said it in the post. I can’t write any kind of code myself. Claude writes it. My part is deciding what it should do, testing every release on my own machine and a bunch of VMs, and using it all day. I’m dictating this reply with it right now. The co-author line is on every commit and I’m not trying to hide it. If that’s a dealbreaker for you, fair enough. I've put a ton of my own time testing and using and learning what I can do with Claude. So far this app (I think) is coming along very nicely. I just wanted to share it and hopefully get some feedback so I can improve it more. There is no monetary incentive for me to share. I was just hoping people would like it.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 hours ago

    It would be good to preface the post with that. We are mandated to use AI at my work. While I’m in tech, I’m not a developer so I don’t code. However I’ve used codex to create tools to help my team automate some of the mundane day-to-day tasks we do. Whenever I share something, I always start with “I used codex to build blah blah”.

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