



Nuance Dragon is not available for Linux but there are some 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 nine of them are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to Nuance Dragon are Simon Speech Recognition, CMU Sphinx, Nerd Dictation and Whisper Writer.




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.

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

Most users think CMU Sphinx is a great Nuance Dragon alternative.

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.
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.




Speech-to-text application, not dictation.


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.

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



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


Some users think Wryte is a great Nuance Dragon alternative, some don't.




This is more toward developing