Recommendation for a dictation software

Question

Any recommendations for a good, free dictation software for Ubuntu, and Linux in general?

Related: http://askubuntu.com/questions/161515/speech-recognition-app-to-convert-mp3-to-text — Kzqai, Dec 08 '14 at 16:19

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 24 '12 at 19:57

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IMO the best open source option is pocket sphinx. It is in the repositories

Unfortunately the commercial options are better in that the have larger and more specialized dictionaries and more features.

answered Sep 24 '12 at 19:57

Panther

I cannot figure out how to install this. – missingfaktor Sep 28 '12 at 06:14
should be sudo apt-get install pocketshinx-utils – Panther Sep 28 '12 at 21:08
I did that already but I cannot find any new installed app in the menu. – missingfaktor Sep 29 '12 at 06:02
IOW, how do I launch the app? – missingfaktor Sep 29 '12 at 06:04
I believe it is a command line tool. – Panther Sep 30 '12 at 04:58
Okay. Do you have recommendations for commercial tools that feature a graphical front end? – missingfaktor Sep 30 '12 at 08:14
I do not know any commercial tools that run natively on Linux. You can try to get Drangon Naturally Speaking working on wine. http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=2077 – Panther Sep 30 '12 at 14:19
apt-cache search pocketsphinx and sudo apt-get install pocketsphinx-utils are the actual correct spellings! – Kzqai Dec 08 '14 at 16:21

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