What FOSS Android speech recognition app do you recommend? (lemm.ee)

submitted 10 months ago by JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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I'm using espeak (from F-Droid) for text to speech, and it's working great. I'd like an app that does speech to text though, ideally supporting Swedish as well as English for Duolingo purposes, but even just English would be more than I have now.

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[-] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

FUTO Voice Input. Hands down:

It works fantastically well
It works offline - in other words, Google doesn't get to spy on what you say
It supports Swedish

FUTO asks you to pay for the app but doesn't force you to. You get the whole application regardless. Just for not treating users like crap and for releasing such nice apps, you really should pay them.

If you do, make sure you download the APK from F-Droid or directly from them, so Google doesn't get any of your money: the APK served by the Google Play Store uses the Play Store to collect payment, whereas the APK served by F-Droid and the direct download APK allows you to send FUTO money directly with Stripe (credit card).

[-] beyond@linkage.ds8.zone 2 points 10 months ago

Unfortunately FUTO apps like this and Greyjay are not truly free software, they are source available with a proprietary EULA.

https://hiphish.github.io/blog/2023/10/18/grayjay-is-not-open-source/

[-] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 10 months ago

Interesting! Thank you for the link.

To be honest, I am not a lawyer so those issues didn't jump at me when I quickly read through the - very terse - license.

Also, FUTO seems like decent people, and trustworthy off-line voice input software that users escape the Google surveillance is hard to come by. FUTO Voice Input is pretty much the only game in town, and the fact that it comes with source code is amazing to me. So I kind of overlooked the finer points to be honest, because it surprisingly ticks all the other boxes that matter to me.