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Is there a privacy-focused accurate speech-to-text option for android?

Ideally it would run locally on device with no required connection to the internet and would allow dictation into other apps.

Thanks for any recommendations in advance.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 days ago (2 children)

FUTO voice input. For English it's good enough. But if you want to mix languages then no.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thanks. I'm very impressed with Futo. Seems very accurate for me so far. I couldn't work out why it needed the network permission so I just declined it and it still works perfectly fine.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

They make a pretty good keyboard too. It doesn't have network permissions and is open source and privacy focused.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

I use futo voice keyboard

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

I came back to this today because it works as an Android service now! And I've already removed my other services for it✨.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Transcribro is pretty good, and available on Accrescent, but only for English (and American spelling only, at that).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Thanks. I have tried Transcribo as a lot of people say it is very accurate. This isn't the case for me though. Maybe I have a weird accent or something.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I use transcribro daily, and it consistently surprises me with its accuracy; I had to say "OIC," and I thought for sure it was gonna interpret it as "Oh, I see," but it got it right!

Edit: I just tried FUTO though and I think I already like it better lol

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

joplin published this video recently. Open-source and offline dictation (voice typing)

https://f-droid.org/packages/net.cozic.joplin if you prefer

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

You might be interested in Whisper Cpp, there is even an "example" android app in the repo. If you are looking for complete solution/app, I would probably look into apps that incorporate this lib.