News [OMG! Ubuntu] Type with your voice on Linux using this Whisper-based app

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Your mouth can say things faster than your hands can type them, yet voice typing is rarely used as a primary input method on desktop (most of us think nothing of it on mobile). That’s despite speech-to-text being available on desktop OSes for decades, natively and through dedicated apps. It never caught on because it was inaccurate and slow (and because what you do at a keyboard is less efficient to speak, but that’s a separate point). Then came Whisper, the speech recognition model released by OpenAI in 2022 and built solely to convert audio to text. It’s proven hugely […]

Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/04/speed-of-sound-linux-voice-typing-app

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