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Nice. Another notable mention in this space is Talon. Useful for automating all OS tasks with voice commands, as well as just dictation: https://talonvoice.com/

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Talon has an EULA that is enough to send me scrambling for the hills: https://talonvoice.com/EULA.txt

Meanwhile, the meat of this speech recognizition is Vosk, which is just Apache-2: https://github.com/alphacep/vosk-api/blob/master/COPYING

Running it as a user prompts:

  > $ ./run.sh 
  > [+] Prompting for admin to set up Tobii udev rule
  > [sudo] password for dotancohen:

That does not build trust. I would prefer an instruction on how to set up a udev rule, or better yet, I would prefer that requirement to be relaxed. What does it need more than standard microphone access that e.g. nerd-dictation or even Telegram need?