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Audio

onsen – rain sounds and white noise

April 6, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

onsen is a small Python command line utility that brings a relaxing hot-springs theme to the terminal.

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CDROM

6 Best Free and Open Source Graphical Audio Grabbers

April 6, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, Roundup

CD audio grabbers are designed to extract (“rip”) the raw digital audio (in a format commonly called CDDA) from a compact disc.

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Musical instruments

mplay – command-line music player inspired by cplay

April 6, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, TUI

mplay is a command-line music player inspired by cplay, but with a richer terminal interface and a strong emphasis on customization.

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Webcam Tools

GNOME Cam Overlay – webcam preview as a borderless overlay

April 6, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Cam Overlay is a lightweight utility designed to add graphical overlays to video streams, for use with camera feeds and live video processing.

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Audio

Noisedash – self-hostable web tool to generate ambient noises

April 5, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, Web Apps

Noisedash is a self-hostable web application for building ambient soundscapes in the browser.

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Internet Radio

Receiver continues to go from strength to strength

April 4, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Internet, Multimedia, Reviews

This internet radio app is definitely worth a download.

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DJ

11 Best Free and Open Source Linux Software for DJs

April 4, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, Roundup

If you’re starting out as a DJ, you’ll probably want to try free software, as proprietary solutions can be very expensive. Fortunately, Linux has useful software for DJs.

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Audio Analyzers

ShoopDaLoop – advanced live looping application with DAW-like elements

April 3, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

ShoopDaLoop is an advanced live looping application with DAW-like elements.

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Typing

Speed of Sound – voice typing for the Linux desktop

April 3, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Speed of Sound is a voice typing application to dictate text and have it automatically transcribed into any focused application.

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Foreign Languages

Glate – Google Translator and Text To Speech Service on Linux Desktop

April 2, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Glate is a desktop application for Linux that provides text translation and text-to-speech capabilities using Google’s translation services.

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Media Center

Switchfin – third-party native Jellyfin client

April 2, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Switchfin is a third-party PC player for Jellyfin that provides a native user interface to browse and play movies and series.

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Webcam Tools

16 Best Free and Open Source Linux Webcam Tools

April 2, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, Multimedia, Roundup

Our favorite free Linux tools which enable webcams to capture images and video, and to act as a video surveillance device.

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Voice Recognition

17 Best Free Linux Speech Recognition Tools

April 2, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, Roundup

Speech is an increasingly popular method of interacting with electronic devices such as computers, phones, tablets, and televisions.

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Handy – offline speech-to-text application

April 1, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia

Handy is a cross-platform desktop speech-to-text application that lets you dictate directly into any text field using configurable keyboard shortcuts.

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Webcam Tools

camera-streamer – low-latency camera streaming project for Raspberry Pi systems

April 1, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

camera-streamer is a high-performance, low-latency camera streaming project for Raspberry Pi systems and similar single-board computers.

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Voice Recognition

20 Best Free and Open Source Linux Speech Synthesis Tools

April 1, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, Roundup

Speech synthesizers are text-to-speech systems used with computers. We feature the finest free and open source speech synthesizers.

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Voice Recognition

MeloTTS – high-quality multi-lingual text-to-speech library

April 1, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia, Web Apps

MeloTTS is a multilingual text-to-speech library written in Python for generating natural-sounding speech locally.

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Deezer

Daphne – audio player and music library manager for Linux

April 1, 2026 Luke Baker GUI, Multimedia, Reviews

Daphne Music Player is a modern Linux music player that gets most of the fundamentals right.

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Voice Recognition

Parler-TTS – lightweight text-to-speech (TTS) model

March 31, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia

Parler-TTS is a lightweight text-to-speech model and library for generating high-quality natural-sounding speech from text.

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Voice Recognition

Moshi – speech-text foundation model and full-duplex spoken dialogue framework

March 31, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia

Moshi is a speech-text foundation model and full-duplex spoken dialogue framework.

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