State of speech-to-text in Debian?

Otto Kekäläinen <[email protected]> Wed, 25 Mar 2026 20:56:03 +0800
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.accessibility
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Hi,

I noticed Fedora 42 had this release goal:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/ibus-speech-to-text

What is the current state of speech-to-text input method / apps in
Debian? Anything you recommend?

I tried to find information on the topic, but I didn't find anything,
which could mean there is no speech-to-text support in Debian
currently. The closest thing I found was an RFP: vosk-api (#1051812)
from 2023 but no activity recently.

In the mobile Linux world there is also
https://keyboard.futo.org/voice-input-models which is based on
Whisper, and maybe if those models were in Debian something in Gnome
could re-use them.

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.