That's interesting... I just read a wiki on this (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_recognition_software_for_Linux) and
smartphones record you and "submit the audio file to a remote server for
converting the audio file into a text string... because they do not have
the performance and disk space to process the speech recognition on the
phone."


On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 7:57 AM, Matthew Crews <mattcrews@mattcrews.com>
wrote:

> From what I’m reading, this is one area that Linux struggles in compared
> to other operating systems. My guess is because voice recognition in
> general isn’t easy in the first place.
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> The Arch Linux wiki apparently has a list of available software. Pretty
> sure most of them are available on the other distros.
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> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Speech_recognition
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> But it also depends what you want. Do you want voice dictation for writing
> (Dragon Naturally Speaking), or do you want voice commands (OK Google,
> Cortana, Siri, etc)?
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> Worst case scenario, you could just run Windows 10 in a VM or something,
> lol.
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> -Matt
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> *From:* PLUG-discuss [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.phxlinux.org] *On
> Behalf Of *Michael
> *Sent:* Tuesday, April 18, 2017 8:57 PM
> *To:* PLUG <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org>
> *Subject:* voice recognition software
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> You know.... my android recognizes most of what I tell it to type. Android
> is linux. so what is a good voice program I could apt-get?
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