Continuous, offline, hands-free speech recognition everywhere in Linux terminals and desktop with Whisper AI and xdotool
voice_typing waits until you start speaking. After two seconds of silence--it keeps listening, waiting for you to speak again. But at the same time, it secretly launches whisper AI in the background and types the resulting text into the current window. The results is continuous speech recognition when you need it, where you need it. Just leave it running minimized in a terminal or screen session.
Advantages and Disadvantages
One advantage of this script is that video RAM is cleared between each spoken interaction. You can play videos and do other things between talking. A disadvantage is whisper has to load up each time, which means a long wait before text appears.
For faster continuous dictation, try my whisper_dictation project, which uses whisper-jax and threads to keep a compiled function loaded in memory and running in the background. The disadvantage of that approach is it hogs video memory until you completely close the app.
These experimental scripts are intended for working offline, on systems that have a powerful video card. For smaller, connected devices, you might want to look at whisper cloud solutions.
# whisper AI https://github.com/openai/whisper
# ffmpeg
# sox
# lame
# xdotool
# screen (optional)
# assumes you have Whisper AI installed
dnf -y install sox lame xdotool
git clone https://github.com/themanyone/voice_typing.git
cd voice_typing
./voice_typing
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