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Privacy-focused speech-to-text on android (lemm.ee)

submitted 2 days ago by ProtozoanDusk@lemm.ee to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Is there a privacy-focused accurate speech-to-text option for android?

Ideally it would run locally on device with no required connection to the internet and would allow dictation into other apps.

Thanks for any recommendations in advance.

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[–] jeena@piefed.jeena.net 25 points 2 days ago (2 children)

FUTO voice input. For English it's good enough. But if you want to mix languages then no.

[–] ProtozoanDusk@lemm.ee 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Thanks. I'm very impressed with Futo. Seems very accurate for me so far. I couldn't work out why it needed the network permission so I just declined it and it still works perfectly fine.

[–] oaklandnative@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

They make a pretty good keyboard too. It doesn't have network permissions and is open source and privacy focused.

[–] jeena@piefed.jeena.net 5 points 2 days ago

https://voiceinput.futo.org/

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 days ago

I use futo voice keyboard

[–] Kefwar@feddit.nl 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

https://f-droid.org/packages/org.woheller69.whisper

Offline speech-to-text input method.

[–] doomsdayrs@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago

I came back to this today because it works as an Android service now! And I've already removed my other services for it✨.

[–] hellfire103@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Transcribro is pretty good, and available on Accrescent, but only for English (and American spelling only, at that).

[–] ProtozoanDusk@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago

Thanks. I have tried Transcribo as a lot of people say it is very accurate. This isn't the case for me though. Maybe I have a weird accent or something.

[–] TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I use transcribro daily, and it consistently surprises me with its accuracy; I had to say "OIC," and I thought for sure it was gonna interpret it as "Oh, I see," but it got it right!

Edit: I just tried FUTO though and I think I already like it better lol

[–] merde@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

joplin published this video recently. Open-source and offline dictation (voice typing)

https://f-droid.org/packages/net.cozic.joplin if you prefer

[–] s38b35M5@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

https://f-droid.org/packages/com.github.olga_yakovleva.rhvoice.android/

I user thus as a plugin for my epub reader.

[–] tony_nocturnal@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago

You might be interested in Whisper Cpp, there is even an "example" android app in the repo. If you are looking for complete solution/app, I would probably look into apps that incorporate this lib.