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   djsumdog (djsumdog@djsumdog.com)'s status on Thursday, 03-Apr-2025 12:34:31 JST djsumdog
   What are people using for local speech-to-text on Linux (not an assistant specifically, just open source dictation). Is there something like FUTO voice for the desktop?
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 03-Apr-2025 12:39:32 JST 翠星石

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     @djsumdog There is no such program that is free software.
     
     I find that typing is faster than speaking, so I don't know why you would even want that really.
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     djsumdog (djsumdog@djsumdog.com)'s status on Thursday, 03-Apr-2025 13:58:10 JST djsumdog

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     It exists for Android, unless you don't consider this FOSS?
     
     https://voiceinput.futo.org/
     https://gitlab.futo.org/keyboard/voiceinput
     
     There are FOSS solutions for going the other way around (text to speech) like Piper: https://github.com/rhasspy/piper
     
     Surely there's something on Linux ... or maybe I should try porting FUTO 🤔
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 03-Apr-2025 14:08:22 JST 翠星石

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     @djsumdog FUTO software uses a disgustingly proprietary license that denies all 4 freedoms; https://lab.vern.cc/gitlab.futo.org/keyboard/voiceinput/-/blob/master/LICENSE.md (link that works without proprietary JavaScript).
     
     https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html#four-freedoms
     >You may use or modify the software only for non-commercial purpose
     Denies the freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose (freedom 0) & denies the freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does your computing as you wish (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
     
     >You may distribute the software or provide it to others only if you do so free of charge for non-commercial purposes.
     Denies the freedom to redistribute copies so you can help others (freedom 2) & denies the freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others (freedom 3). By doing this you can give the whole community a chance to benefit from your changes. Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
     
     https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html#selling
     
     
     You appear to have assumed that "FOSS" means; gratis, source-available (proprietary) software, which FUTO software is.
     
     "FOSS" attempts to be neutral between the freedom of free software and the corporate boot licking of "open source", but as you can see, it spectacularily fails at even that; https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/floss-and-foss.html
     
     >There are FOSS solutions for going the other way around (text to speech) like Piper: https://github.com/rhasspy/piper
     Piper is proprietary software, as the result of the training data is software and that software doesn't have source code.
     
     There is free software TTS's available like espeak-ng
     
     >or maybe I should try porting FUTO
     Please do not port more proprietary software to the GNU/Linux-libre OS, which is meant to be a 100% free software OS that respects the users freedom and every proprietary program added is yet another step away from that goal.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 03-Apr-2025 15:30:37 JST 翠星石

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     @djsumdog >No reply thanking me from saving you from proprietary software.
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     djsumdog (djsumdog@djsumdog.com)'s status on Friday, 04-Apr-2025 01:13:06 JST djsumdog

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     You could have just provided the link to the license. I didn't realize it wasn't a standard one. I can tell it's not FOSS from reading it. I didn't need the lecture of the four freedoms.
     
     I'm still going to use it though, because I'm not a free software extremest and work within the balance of limitations. I still play video games and use pirated Illustrator sometimes :blobcatshrug: