Nuance Dragon Alternatives for Linux

Nuance Dragon is not available for Linux but there are plenty of alternatives that runs on Linux with similar functionality. The best Linux alternative is Speech Note, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Nuance Dragon and 14 are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to Nuance Dragon are Voicy - Speech to Text, Simon Speech Recognition, Nerd Dictation and CMU Sphinx.

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  1. AI-driven Chrome extension transforms voice input into text on any website, offering 99% transcription accuracy, robust grammar and punctuation correction, hands-free typing, support for over 50 languages, and significantly reduced manual labor for users.

    77 Voicy - Speech to Text alternatives

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    • Freemium
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    • Online
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    • iPhone
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    • Google Chrome
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  2. Simple, hackable offline speech to text - using the VOSK-API.

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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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  4. 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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    • Python
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  5. Creates natural-sounding speech from text in multiple languages and voices using neural networks, with an advanced browser editor, export options as MP3, WAV, or MP4, SSML formatting, transcription, video recording, customization features, and collaboration tools.

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    • Freemium
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    • Online
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  6. VibeVoice AI icon
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    VibeVoice is an OS-embedded voice client (Windows, Mac, Linux) that replaces your keyboard in ANY application. Includes a WhatsApp Bot for instant transcription. Zero-config, EU-Privacy.

    13 VibeVoice AI alternatives

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    • Paid
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    • Online
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  7. whis icon
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    Voice-to-text CLI for terminal users.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Wayland
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
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  8. 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.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
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  9. Wryte icon
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    Dictation software for blogger and other webworkers.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
    • Linux
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  10. Offline AI speech recognition & transcription app powered by OpenAI Whisper. One-time purchase, no subscription. NVIDIA GPU accelerated.

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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