
System-Wide STT for Linux: Speak to AI
The Linux speech-to-text landscape has grown a lot — these days you'll find a microphone icon and voice input in pretty much every chat app and code editor. But just a year ago? Almost nothing had decent STT support on Linux. That's when I built Speak to AI — and solved the problem at the system level, for any app and any window. No Electron, no browser tabs, no cloud dependencies — just a lightweight Go binary with whisper.cpp doing all the heavy lifting locally. Works on any Linux distro and any DE. Get 📦 Download from Releases — AppImage, ready to run Arch Linux : yay -S speak-to-ai Fedora : sudo dnf copr enable ashbuk/speak-to-ai && sudo dnf install speak-to-ai
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