Re: State of speech-to-text in Debian?

Samuel Thibault <[email protected]> Wed, 25 Mar 2026 17:29:47 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.accessibility
Organization I am not organized
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Hello,

Otto Kekäläinen, le mer. 25 mars 2026 20:56:03 +0800, a ecrit:
> What is the current state of speech-to-text input method / apps in
> Debian? Anything you recommend?

Adding d-accessibility@ in Cc, as that may be of interest to some people
there.

There is the sphinxbase engine that is packaged, but I don't know about
an ibus method that could be used with it.

> I might have energy to package something, but first I need to get a
> better understanding of the landscape in general and what is the state
> in Debian currently around this topic.

I don't think there is much existing Debian work on this.

Samuel