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Privacy-Focused Real-time Speech to Text for Windows (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by eyes_uncl0uded@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Knowledgeable privacy aficionados of Lemmy, perhaps you can help.

I'm searching for a U.S. English speech to text program I can use for note taking, dictation, and internet searching that runs locally on Windows and doesn't collect information or send it off to either the software company or third parties. I'm looking for an out-of-the-box easy option first- if needed I can explore writing scripts and using an LLM to craft a UI, but I'm not looking for something that would require a significant amount of extra building or coding. Ideally it'd be FLOSS and be light on compute, but I'm not averse to paying for a solid product that meets the privacy requirement and if it's not ludicrously heavy on compute, that's okay.

Vosk seems a good option, though in my brief exploration, I haven't found a UI or scripts to use it easily.

WhisperAI, while very accurate, doesn't natively support real-time speech to text, though there are some mods that try and address that.

Anything I'm completely missing?

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[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

With Recall as it is, trying to have anything written privately in Windows is a losing battle.

[–] eyes_uncl0uded@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I hear you. VST/VST3 support is inconsistent through wine and while there are some alternatives to some plugins, I'm not committed enough to give up the ogs I love just yet.

To my knowledge, Recall rollout is currently only to Copilot+ PCs, and my debloated Win11 is safe for now. I'll remain vigilant, though 🫡

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 2 points 1 week ago

Godspeed, friend.