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Voice Recognition

VoiceGen – text to speech converter

November 2, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

VoiceGen is a simple text-to-speech application, with support for multiple offline/online engines such as svox and Amazon Polly.

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Configuring music

Millisecond – optimize your system for low latency audio

November 2, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Millisecond provides system diagnostics and offers tips to improve low latency performance for audio production.

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Voice Recognition

hyprwhspr – native speech-to-text

October 30, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

hyprwhspr is a native speech-to-text designed for Arch / Omarchy. It aims to provide fast, accurate and easy system-wide dictation.

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Speech

Epicenter – speech recognition tool

October 28, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Press shortcut → speak → get text. Desktop transcription that cuts out the middleman.

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Mixer

deej – open-source hardware volume mixer

October 26, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

deej is a hardware volume mixer using Arduino sliders to control application, microphone and master audio levels on Linux and Windows.

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Internet Radio

Raspberry Pi 5 Desktop Mini PC: Internet Radio

October 22, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Hardware, Internet, Mini PC, Multimedia

We maintain a roundup of the finest internet radio software. Let’s take a look at the top entries from a Raspberry Pi 5 perspective.

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Music

Kalorite – lightweight audio player

October 20, 2025 Luke Baker GUI, Multimedia

Kalorite is a small-size Qt6 audio player that aims to be modern and easy-to-use made for the developer’s needs to use on KDE.

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Singing

LRCGET – download synced LRC lyrics

October 17, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

LRCGET is a utility for mass-downloading LRC synced lyrics for your offline music library.

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Audio Analyzers

MasVisGtk – audio loudness and mastering analysis

October 17, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

MasVisGtk examines audio mastering with waveform, loudness, dynamic range, peak, crest factor, spectrum and histogram measurements.

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Mixer

KMix – sound channel mixer and volume control

October 15, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

KMix is KDE’s sound channel mixer and volume control with master-channel selection, tray controls, configurable steps and D-Bus support.

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Image of the Raspberry Pi 5

Raspberry Pi 5 Desktop Mini PC: Music Player

October 13, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, GUI, Hardware, Mini PC, Multimedia, Reviews, TUI

Let’s play some music on the Raspberry Pi 5. It’s a very capable music player.

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Mixer

Retrovol – volume setting program

October 6, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Retrovol is a volume setting program. It adds an icon to the tray that can be scrolled on to change the volume.

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Speech

hns – privacy-focused speech-to-text CLI utility

October 3, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia, Reviews, Scientific

hns records your voice, transcribes it locally using faster-whisper, and copies the transcription to your clipboard.

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Mixer

PAMix – audio mixer

October 2, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia, TUI

PAmix is an ncurses PulseAudio mixer with playback and recording tabs, channel controls, device selection and customisable shortcuts.

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Mixer

ncpamixer – ncurses PulseAudio Mixer

October 2, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia, TUI

ncpamixer offers a keyboard-driven PulseAudio volume mixer with playback, recording, device profiles, routing and customisable colours.

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Selection of utilities

BPM Detect – automatic BPM detection tool

September 28, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

BPM Detect is an automatic BPM (beats per minute) detection utility. It uses SoundTouch’s BPM library.

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Audio Analyzers

Parlatype – media player for transcription

September 27, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Parlatype is a minimal audio player for manual speech transcription, written for the GNOME desktop environment.

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Mixer

wmsmixer – hack to wmmixer

September 26, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

wmsmixer is a hack to wmmixer which makes some changes to the display and adds a few new features, most notably scrollwheel support.

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Terminal Multiplexer

Decker – multimedia sketchpad

September 26, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Decker is a multimedia platform for creating and sharing interactive documents, with sound, images, hypertext, and scripted behavior.

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Mixer

wmmixer – mixer application designed for WindowMaker

September 25, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

wmmixer is a mixer application designed for WindowMaker. wmmixer displays the mixer status of your computer in a small icon.

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