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Vocalinux Is an Open-Source Voice Dictation App Built for Linux (linuxiac.com)
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[–] jatinkrmalik@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Glad the mic gain fixed it. 8 GB is tight for the bigger models, so sticking to tiny/base or quantized whisper.cpp is the sane path there. I'm also adding support for Parakeet models soon. That works incredibly well on CPU only machines with low RAM.