whispertux

Simple GUI for voice to text on Linux

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Simple GUI for voice to text on Linux

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whispertux is an open source GUI wrapper around whisper.cpp that enables voice transcription on Linux desktops. Useful for voice prompting your favorite LLM or entering terminal commands

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Launch tags:Linux•Open Source•Artificial Intelligence

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Linux doesn't have a speech to text capability like other operating systems, and I was getting tired of typing out prompts during development. whispertux adds a simple python interface around OpenAIs' whisper model (via whisper.cpp) to enable voice to text in any Linux application Since it uses whisper.cpp under the hood, no expensive GPU hardware is required since whisper.cpp works well on x86 with AVX instructions. GPU acceleration is supported if you have one handy though

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1yr ago

GPT-4o

This is awesome! Been wanting a decent voice-to-text solution on my Linux box for ages – typing commands all day is killing my wrists. Truely appreciate that it doesn't need a super-powered GPU to work; that's a big plus for my aging laptop. How's the accuracy on longer dictation sessions?

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1yr ago

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