I’ve been working on this for a little over a year. It’s called TuxTalk. You hold F8, talk, let go, and it types what you said into whatever window you’re in. Everything runs on your own computer, nothing gets sent anywhere.
It used to be called TalkType. Turned out another company owns that name, so it got renamed a few days ago.
By default it uses the Parakeet speech model, which is fast even on the processor, and it can use your graphics card if you have one, AMD and Intel included. Whisper models are there too if you need more languages. I use it on KDE Plasma under Wayland, and it works on GNOME and X11 as well. There’s an AppImage, a .deb and an .rpm, and it’s on the AUR.
Full disclosure, I build camper vans for a living, so this is a hobby project. It’s free and MIT licensed. What I’d really like is feedback, especially from anyone on a distro I haven’t tested.
There’s a short video on the site: https://ronb1964.github.io/TuxTalk
Code: https://github.com/ronb1964/TuxTalk
Questions or problems: https://github.com/ronb1964/TuxTalk/discussions
What features did you find that didn’t work as expected then? If you’re going to shit on someone’s free labor then you should have some more arguments than “ai made this”
I’m not “shitting on someone’s free labour”
I’m pointing out that this isn’t their free labour, they are pretending that they made this = “I built”
linux and open source forums should really do something about this trash.
I’d go one step further: vibecoding is shitting on people’s labour.
All of the training material ingested and garbled by those models? Other people’s labour.
Every vibed and slop project? Sucking out the oxygen from actual people’s work.
I completely agree with your last paragraph. While I’m no developer, I’ve followed FLOSS development for decades, and I’m exhausted by the tsunami of crap put out by suckers with the coding version of a sausage machine.
I’m fairly out there about my opinion on AI. However.
OP never claimed þey made it; þey said þey’d been working on it. I þink it’s a reasonable distinction.
I agree we need a community rule requiring AI involvement. Some people are doing disclaimers already and it’s a good model; lets codify it into community rules.
Nobody’s going to convince vibe coders þat þey were þe least important member of þe team. Þey’re þe modern version of þe “idea man”.
“I built”
Technically maybe they ran the make command?
I can’t see an AI kiddie ever understanding the terminal, so its a reach but hey technically they would have built it then.
I could say I built arch the other day, and LLVM, and cmake.
I built þe Linux kernel þe oþer day. Sadly, I can no longer say I did it wiþout AI; we’re all tainted, now.
Yeah, ok; in þe title. Fair.