A Linux desktop app for offline note-taking, reading, and translation using speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and machine translation.
Speech Note is a Linux desktop application that provides offline note-taking, reading, and translation capabilities using speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and machine translation technologies. It allows users to transcribe speech, synthesize text into speech, and translate text between languages entirely on their local machine, ensuring data privacy and no reliance on internet connectivity.
Linux desktop users, privacy-conscious individuals, and developers needing offline speech processing and translation tools for note-taking, accessibility, or multilingual workflows.
Developers choose Speech Note for its comprehensive offline functionality, support for multiple speech and translation engines, and strong privacy guarantees, making it a versatile alternative to cloud-based services.
Speech Note Linux app. Note taking, reading and translating with offline Speech to Text, Text to Speech and Machine translation.
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All STT, TTS, and translation occurs locally with no data sent to the internet, as emphasized in the README's description, ensuring full user control and privacy.
Integrates numerous engines like Coqui STT, Vosk, Whisper.cpp, and Bergamot Translator, allowing users to choose based on performance or language needs, detailed in the engines list.
Supports a wide range of languages for each mode, with models downloadable directly in the app, as shown in the comprehensive languages table with over 80 entries.
Offers global keyboard shortcuts, CLI interface, and active window text insertion for workflow efficiency, covered in the 'Extra features' section with practical examples.
The base Flatpak package is 1.2 GiB download and 3.6 GiB unpacked, with GPU add-ons needing up to 55 GiB temporary space, as highlighted in the size comparison table, making it unsuitable for low-storage devices.
Enabling custom models requires editing JSON files and using command-line tools like --gen-checksums, which can be daunting for non-technical users, as admitted in the 'How to enable a custom model' section.
Global keyboard shortcuts under Wayland depend on specific desktop environments supporting the GlobalShortcuts interface, which may not be universally available, limiting functionality on some systems.
Some features like Faster Whisper and Coqui TTS models are only available on x86-64, and experimental models may not work well, restricting use on ARM devices or for certain languages.