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Is there anything out there that be used in any application or terminal?

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I’ve used Sayboard and Whisper, and liked both of them. Sayboard is faster, Whisper handles punctuation better.

If you do not have a real-time requirement, and a bad CPU/GPU I can recommend whispercpp. https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp

It is quite fast and can transcribe with timestamps. I guess if you have a fast CPU/GPU this transcription can happen faster than real-time.

Requires X11, doesn’t work well on wayland.

https://github.com/Manish7093/IBus-Speech-To-Text

I tried this in Fedora/Wayland previously, and it seems to work in most applications. It uses “VOSK” models which the GUI can download automatically - you just pick your language and desired model size when setting it up.

When I was exploring this a few months ago, I noticed speech recognition models have moved on quite recently (e.g. https://github.com/openai/whisper which can be run locally) but didn’t see anything integrating it into an input-method like the above.

True, you could use text input and some voice input on the phone, like FUTO voice input

I use Talon Voice

Well, I tinkered around a bit with Speech Note which has a good amount of features and is easy to install as a Flatpak. I think it has an option to do this, but requires a bit off fiddling, an extra tool and permissions for the Flatpak. I didn’t find any software with a particularly good integration into the Desktop, though.

Also read about Blahst but didn’t try it yet. Maybe that one is an option.