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Audio

Moodist – ambient sounds for focus and calm

September 6, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, Web Apps

Moodist lets you layer 84 ambient sounds, save and share mixes, generate binaural beats and use productivity tools including Pomodoro.

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Noisekun – ambient sounds for relaxation and productivity

September 5, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, Web Apps

Noisekun is an ambient sound mixer with 23 sounds, individual volume controls, themes, saved combinations and a Pomodoro timer.

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Webcam Tools

16 Best Free and Open Source Linux Webcam Tools

September 4, 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

Speech Note – note taking, reading and translating

September 3, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Speech Note works with spoken and written material using local speech recognition, speech synthesis and machine translation.

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Voice Recognition

aTrain – automatically transcribe recorded speech

September 3, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

aTrain is a graphical application to transcribe recorded speech while keeping source audio and resulting text on the user’s own computer.

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faster-whisper – reimplementation of OpenAI’s Whisper

September 2, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia

faster-whisper is a reimplementation of OpenAI’s Whisper automatic speech recognition model built around CTranslate2

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PocketSphinx – speaker-independent continuous speech recognition engine

September 2, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

PocketSphinx is a compact, speaker-independent continuous speech recognition engine originating from CMU Sphinx.

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20 Best Free and Open Source Media Players

September 2, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Desktop, Multimedia, Roundup

A media player is software that lets you watch video and listen to music on your computer. We cover the best free and open source options.

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Audio Editors

20 Best Free and Open Source Linux Audio Editors

September 1, 2026 Luke Baker Multimedia, Roundup

To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 20 high quality free and open source audio editors.

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Voice Recognition

whisper.cpp – implementation of OpenAI’s Whisper automatic speech recognition model

September 1, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia

whisper.cpp is a high-performance C/C++ implementation of OpenAI’s Whisper automatic speech recognition model.

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Voice Recognition

FunASR – end-to-end speech recognition toolkit

September 1, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia

FunASR is an end-to-end speech recognition toolkit. It provides tools for building, training and deploying speech-processing systems

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Voice Recognition

Chatterbox – family of text-to-speech models

September 1, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia

Chatterbox is a family of text-to-speech models from Resemble AI. It supports speech generation, voice cloning, and multilingual synthesis.

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Polyphone – powerful SoundFont editor

August 31, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Polyphone is a graphical SoundFont editor for creating and editing sampled instruments with SF2, SF3, SFZ and sfArk support on Linux.

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Audio Editors

MorphEdit – browser-based and desktop audio editor

August 28, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia, Web Apps

MorphEdit is a browser-based and desktop audio editor designed for preparing samples for hardware instruments.

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EKO – graphical sound editor

August 28, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia

EKO is a Qt 6 graphical sound editor with waveform editing, recording, effects, session support, and broad audio format compatibility.

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Subtitles

14 Best Free and Open Source Subtitle Editors

August 27, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, Roundup, Utilities

A subtitle editor is software that lets users create and edit subtitles. We pick the finest open source software.

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Audio Editors

AudioMass – browser-based audio and waveform editor

August 27, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, Web Apps

AudioMass is a browser-based audio and waveform editor that processes files locally

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Podcast

Gocaster – lightweight terminal-based podcast

August 26, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, TUI

Gocaster is a lightweight terminal-based podcast client..It provides a Bubble Tea interface for browsing, subscribing to and playing podcasts.

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Media Center

Best Free and Open Source Media Centers

August 26, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, Roundup

To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 6 impressive free Linux media centers.

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Subtitles

Sub Editor – visual subtitle editor

August 24, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia

Sub Editor is a visual subtitle editor designed for accurate timing and keyboard-driven operation.

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