Nerd Dictation

[guy-who-googles]

Project description
Simple, hackable offline speech to text - using the VOSK-API.

Metadata

• homepage URL:
• source URL: https://github.com/ideasman42/nerd-dictation
• license: GPLv3
• platforms: linux

[guy-who-googles]

I should maybe mention it's written in python & has the following dependencies:

• Python 3.
• The VOSK-API.
• parec command for recording from pulse-audio (default)
  • sox command as alternative
• xdotool (default, X11 only)
  • or ydotool command to simulate keyboard input (supports X11 & Wayland)

[jtojnar]

Looks like @badly-drawn-wizards had it packaged in their configuration in the past. Do you think the project is in a state worth packaging in Nixpkgs?

[jtara1]

I packaged it myself, a little more hacky than the standard nix way, but it works.

nix run 'github:jtara1/dictation#nerd-dictation'

or your can import my flake in your inputs then add the package to your environment.systemPackages or home.packages. See my flake and readme.

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If I made a PR for nixpkgs for this like #185148, I'd probably just need to patch the vosk-api python that links and imports C lib for vosk.