Open Source Nuance Dragon Alternatives

The best open source alternative to Nuance Dragon is Ito.ai. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Nuance Dragon and 14 is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to Nuance Dragon are Speech Note, Fluid AI, Simon Speech Recognition and AIgrator Scribe.

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  1. Ito.ai icon
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    Ito transforms your voice into perfect text anywhere on Mac. Speak naturally, and our AI crafts polished messages for any context.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
     
    • Ito.ai is the most popular Open Source alternative to Nuance Dragon.

    • Ito.ai is Free and Open SourceNuance Dragon is Paid and Proprietary
  2. Speech Note icon
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    Note taking and reading with Speech to Text and Text to Speech.

    71 Speech Note alternatives

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    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
    • Speech Note is the most popular Linux alternative to Nuance Dragon.

    • Speech Note is Free and Open SourceNuance Dragon is Paid and Proprietary
    • Speech Note is Lightweight and Privacy focusedNuance Dragon is not according to our users
  3. Fluid AI icon
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    Never pay to convert speech to text. Fluid transforms your voice into text instantly with NVIDIA's fastest AI model, processing locally on your Mac with complete privacy.

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    • Mac
     
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    Simon is an open source speech recognition program that can replace your mouse and keyboard. The system is designed to be as flexible as possible and will work with any language or dialect.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    Free, open-source desktop assistant for offline speech-to-text and computer voice control, using Python and Vosk engine, offering real-time dictation, fuzzy matching, extensive hotkey support, dual input modes, and deep customization, all with strict data privacy.

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    • Windows
     
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    CMU Sphinx is a speaker-independent large vocabulary continuous speech recognizer released under BSD style license. It is also a collection of open source tools and resources that allows researchers and developers to build speech recognition systems.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    Comments about CMU Sphinx as an Alternative to Nuance Dragon
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    This is more toward developing

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    This is a toolkit/API for developers to create their own Voice to Text software, not a functioning program for the end-user

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    • “OPEN SOURCE SPEECH RECOGNITION TOOLKIT” • This is for developers of speech-to-text software • not usable software • open source/free software speech recognition/acoustic model training platform

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Most users think CMU Sphinx is a great Nuance Dragon alternative.

    • CMU Sphinx is Free and Open SourceNuance Dragon is Paid and Proprietary
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    Simple, hackable offline speech to text - using the VOSK-API.

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    • Linux
     
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    Work by Speech is the first program in the world that allows efficient work on a computer by speech without needing a keyboard and mouse.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    WhisperWriter is a small speech-to-text app that uses OpenAI's Whisper model to auto-transcribe recordings from a user's microphone to the active window.

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    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Mac
    • Python
     
  10. Mycroft Mimic icon
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    Mimic is a powerful TTS tool. Mimic is low-latency and has a small resource footprint. Its range of high quality voices also set it apart from other open source text-to-speech projects.

    37 Mycroft Mimic alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
     
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    Comments about Mycroft Mimic as an Alternative to Nuance Dragon
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    it is TTS not voice to text!!!

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Mycroft Mimic is Free and Open SourceNuance Dragon is Paid and Proprietary
  11. Gespeaker icon
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    Gespeaker is a GTK+ frontend for espeak. It allows to play a text in many languages with settings for voice, pitch, volume, speed and word gap. The text played can also be recorded to WAV file.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
     
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    Text to speech reader. Dragon is a voice to text program they are not the same

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    • Gespeaker is Free and Open SourceNuance Dragon is Paid and Proprietary
  12. Wryte icon
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    Dictation software for blogger and other webworkers.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    Comments about Wryte as an Alternative to Nuance Dragon
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    dictation software for blogger and other webworkers • for web developers • site provides code not usable software

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Some users think Wryte is a great Nuance Dragon alternative, some don't.

    • Wryte is Free and Open SourceNuance Dragon is Paid and Proprietary
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