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 50 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 Simon Speech Recognition, Voicy - Speech to Text, CMU Sphinx and Nerd Dictation.

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  1. 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

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    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  2. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • Google Chrome
    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPad
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
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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

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    CMU Sphinx vs Nuance Dragon Comments
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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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    This is more toward developing

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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

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

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    • Linux
     
  5. 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
     
  6. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
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    VoiceOverMaker vs Nuance Dragon Comments
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    Speech-to-text application, not dictation.

    • VoiceOverMaker is Freemium and ProprietaryNuance Dragon is Paid and Proprietary
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    Voice-to-text CLI for terminal users.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Mac
    • Wayland
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
  8. 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.

    12 VibeVoice AI alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  9. 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

    • Gespeaker is Free and Open SourceNuance Dragon is Paid and Proprietary
  10. 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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    Discontinued

    Last updated on August 2016. The available Appimage crashes.

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    dictation software for blogger and other webworkers • for web developers • site provides code not usable software

    • Wryte is Free and Open SourceNuance Dragon is Paid and Proprietary
  11. Offline AI speech recognition & transcription app powered by OpenAI Whisper. One-time purchase, no subscription. NVIDIA GPU accelerated.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
     
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