Flatsonar

Dictate

by Richard Smith

Real-time microphone speech-to-text using whisper.cpp

Extensive permissions
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About

A small CLI program that does real-time speech-to-text from your microphone. It uses whisper.cpp under the hood for the actual inference, so all transcription happens locally on your machine. A lower quality model transcribes your dictation in real time. When you finish, a higher quality model processes the full audio, copies the text to the clipboard, and pastes it into the current application.

Permissions

2 permissions weaken the sandbox. Flatsonar asks before installing.

  • all devices (/dev): webcams, disks, raw hardware
    --device=all
  • owns desktop name org.kde.StatusNotifierItem.*: can impersonate a desktop component
    --own-name=org.kde.StatusNotifierItem.*
  • network
    --share=network
  • Wayland display
    --socket=wayland
  • X11 display, only when Wayland is unavailable
    --socket=fallback-x11
  • inter-process communication (needed for X11)
    --share=ipc
  • audio
    --socket=pulseaudio
  • notifications
    --talk-name=org.freedesktop.Notifications
  • system tray
    --talk-name=org.kde.StatusNotifierWatcher

Who publishes this

Nobody has confirmed that the publisher controls this app id. Flatsonar warns before installing.

  • uk.co.electronstudio.Dictate claims the domain electronstudio.co.uk; only its owner can prove that
    publisher:namespace

Maintenance

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