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Speech Dictation Mode for Emacs

There is a wide range of input mechanisms for computers, starting with keyboards (which are relatively mature) and extending to various types of neural interfaces (currently under research). Speech lies somewhere on this spectrum with a lot of promises but still not much to show for.

There is a wide range of input mechanisms for computers, starting with keyboards (which are relatively mature) and extending to various types of neural interfaces (currently under research). We have transcription tools that can work as dictation interfaces but they inevitably make mistakes and mishandle speech disfluencies, fixing which offline takes a lot of additional time. Furthermore, while the code for this package is open-source it's still not a nice FOSS since it depends on Deepgram and OpenAI's services, both of which I want to swap out with lightweight on-device or self-hosted alternatives.

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