Vocalinux is a voice dictation application that lets you enter text into virtually any Linux application by speaking into a microphone.
It supports both X11 and Wayland and performs speech recognition locally, so audio and transcribed text do not need to leave your machine.
The application supports whisper.cpp, OpenAI Whisper, and VOSK speech-recognition engines. whisper.cpp is used by default and offers Vulkan acceleration on AMD, Intel, and NVIDIA graphics hardware. A GTK-based settings interface provides access to recognition, audio, shortcut, and advanced options.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Enters dictated text into Linux applications.
- Supports X11 and Wayland sessions.
- Provides fully offline speech recognition.
- Offers whisper.cpp, OpenAI Whisper, and VOSK engines.
- Supports Vulkan acceleration with AMD, Intel, and NVIDIA graphics hardware.
- Includes toggle and push-to-talk activation modes.
- Offers configurable global keyboard shortcuts.
- Provides spoken commands for punctuation, line breaks, capitalisation, and deleting text.
- Uses neural voice activity detection when ONNX Runtime is available.
- Includes a system tray indicator and graphical settings interface.
- Supports automatic startup through XDG autostart.
- Offers command-line options and multiple recognition models.
Website: github.com/jatinkrmalik/vocalinux
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Developer: Jatin K Malik
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
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