 Hello there, welcome back to my YouTube channel for another Linux related video today. So something I saw recently that popped up on my LinkedIn feed and which I thought looked interesting was somebody talking about, a writer talking about voice recognition software and how good and effective that was and certainly as a writer, I do quite a bit of writing every day. I had looked at it before and I know there is a leading tool in Windows but my impression is always that this was just one of those things that doesn't work all that well in Linux. I can't remember the last time I tried but to do a quick refresh, I did find a Reddit thread talking about voice to text software for Linux and I'm looking for it specifically for Ubuntu and there are a couple of tools, looks like there's a Firefox add-on, I'm going to be going through those in future videos but the most common recommendation among that would actually work really well for me because I do a lot of drafting work in Google Docs was to just use this built-in feature. So I decided I am going to do a test run here in my Google Docs and I'm just going to see how this works and to point out the obvious, I do have an accent. I'm not sure if the Irish accent is considered an ethnic accent but in any event I'm going to see how well it does with my voice, my accent and I'm going to be just loading up some text, test text in order to see how well it does. So in order to get the voice typing activated, now this is, I'm currently using Ubuntu 2010 so that's the latest release of Ubuntu but it's the same, it works the same cross-platform however you're accessing Google Docs and under a file over here you have, sorry, under tools there is a button here for voice typing and the control if you want to just get it up quickly from your keyboard is control, shift, S. Once you click on that you get this little kind of floating window over here and then you can begin speaking. So what I'm going to do, I've just dragged that Reddit thread over here and I'm just going to try and read this comment at a kind of regular talking speed and then see how that goes. So I'm going to go ahead now and click on the speak, the microphone icon and after I do that I'm just going to read this comment through and see how well it handles it. I'm just going to then click in here to make sure everything works so I might move this off to my other screen. So let's just give this a go. Right now, no I need to go on here, okay, right now, right now your best bet on Linux is to install KDE Connect and use it in conjunction with the swipe keyboard on Android. Swipe uses Dragon Natural Speaking back end. Basically, you input your speech on your computer microphone, KDE Connect sends it to your phone where swipe converts it to text with the help of Dragon Natural Speaking then returns the results to your computer via KDE Connect. Yes, it's a bit convoluted but if you find a better solution please let me know. Return paragraph. That does seem a bit convoluted but if it works, it works. Is the swipe part necessary? That app appears to cost a few dollars. Okay, so that seems to work fairly well. So I'm just going to bring this guy over so we can compare and contrast how that reading. So right now your best bet, yeah I didn't get anything. Right now your best bet on Linux is to install, I'm just going to bring this guy down here, KDE Connect and use it in conjunction with the swipe keyboard on Android. So this is interesting, here it's gone swipe as in the actual brand name and then it's kind of just used swipe as in the spelling. So that's interesting. Swipe uses Dragon Natural Speaking back end. Basically you input your speech on your computer microphone. KDE Connect, this should be sends it to your phone where swipe, this should say converts its attacks with the help of Dragon Naturally Speaking then returns the results to your computer via KDE Connect. Yes, yes it's a bit convoluted but if you find a better solution please let me know. Now I haven't even looked at the, so I thought return paragraph might sort of do, I'm sure there are voice commands. So let's just get this last bit. That does seem a bit convoluted but if it works, it works. Is the swipe, this should say part necessary, that app appears to cost a few dollars. So overall I would say the quality of the automatic speech to text transcription going on here is quite good and it's definitely given me some, I'm going to be exploring this and looking at what those commands are and I think I'm going to give it a go for the next article. I have to write and see if it could work but basically using Google voice typing on Ubuntu Linux seems to work pretty good. The quality of the transcription is not 100% in terms of sorry the quality voice recognition but it looks to me as if it's good enough to use and to maybe save a bit of time speaking out your draft and then going ahead and editing it using conventional means. Hope this video has been interesting, feel free to reach out at any time through my website danielrosil.co.al looking forward to bringing another video out soon.