On Wednesday, November 04, 2020 09:39:44 AM Richard Owlett wrote: > I'm a lousy typist. Trying to make notes on a laptop does not work well > because typing interrupts my train of thought. > > Many years ago when I was a Windows user and Dragon Naturally Speaking > was in its initial release I followed speech recognition casually - but > not recently. > > Are there now end-user, Debian compatible, dictation applications that > do NOT require proprietary software nor internet connectivity? My > internet searching turned up primarily old material or tool-set packages > packages aimed at programmers creating their own packages.
Did your Internet search turn up a package "produced" by Carnegie-Mellon? I don't remember the name of it, I'm not sure it is free, and I don't know if it has continued to be developed. I never used it, but looked into it a little back in the days when I used Dragon (a little).