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2026-07-15
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Building cross-distro offline voice dictation for Linux (and why it took more than a model)
A developer built Vocalinux, a GPLv3 tray app for system-wide offline speech-to-text on Linux supporting X11 and Wayland. The tool uses whisper.cpp by default but also supports OpenAI Whisper, VOSK, a…