Speech Note

Linux desktop and Sailfish OS app for note taking, reading and translating with offline Speech to Text, Text to Speech and Machine Translation

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Contents of this README

• Description
• Languages and Models
• How to install
• Flatpak packages
• Beta version
• Extra features
• Building from sources
• How to enable a custom model
• Contributing to Speech Note
• How to support
• Reviews and demos
• License

Description

Speech Note let you take, read and translate notes in multiple languages. It uses Speech to Text, Text to Speech and Machine Translation to do so. Text and voice processing take place entirely offline, locally on your computer, without using a network connection. Your privacy is always respected. No data is sent to the Internet.

Speech Note uses many different processing engines to do its job. Currently these are used:

• Speech to Text (STT)
  • Coqui STT (a fork of Mozilla DeepSpeech)
  • Vosk
  • whisper.cpp
  • Faster Whisper
  • april-asr
• Text to Speech (TTS)
  • espeak-ng
  • MBROLA
  • Piper
  • RHVoice
  • Coqui TTS
  • Mimic 3
  • WhisperSpeech
  • Kokoro
  • Parler-TTS
  • F5-TTS
  • S.A.M.
• Machine Translation (MT)
  • Bergamot Translator

Languages and Models

Speech Note installation package does not include checkpoint files for supported models, but instead they can be easily downloaded using the graphical model browser built into the application.

Following languages and models are supported and enable for download:

| Lang ID | Name | DeepSpeech (STT) | Whisper (STT) | Vosk (STT) | April-ASR (STT) | Piper (TTS) | RHVoice (TTS) | espeak (TTS) | MBROLA (TTS) | Coqui (TTS) | Mimic3 (TTS) | WhisperSpeech (TTS) | Kokoro (TTS) | F5-TTS | Parler-TTS | S.A.M. (TTS) | Bergamot (MT) | | ----------- | ------------- | -------------------- | ----------------- | -------------- | ------------------- | --------------- | ----------------- | ---------------- | ---------------- | --------------- | ---------------- | ----------------------- | ---------------- | ---------- | -------------- | ---------------- | ----------------- | | af | Afrikaans | | ● | | | | | ● | | | ● | | | | | | | | am | Amharic | ● (e) | ● | | | | | ● | | ● | | | | | | | | | ar | Arabic | | ● | ● | | ● | | ● | ● | ● | | | | | | | ● | | az | Azerbaijani | | ● | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ● | | be | Belarusian | | ● | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ● | | bg | Bulgarian | | ● | | | | | ● | | ● | | | | | | | | | bn | Bengali | | ● | | | | | ● | | ● | ● | | | | | | | | bs | Bosnian | | ● | | | | | ● | | | | | | | | | ● | | ca | Catalan | ● | ● | ● | | ● | | ● | | ● | | | | | | | ● | | cs | Czech | ● | ● | ● | | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | | | | | | | ● | | cy | Welsh | | | | | ● | | | | | | | | | | | | | da | Danish | | ● | | | ● | | ● | | ● | | | | | | | ● | | de | German | ● | ● | ● | | ● | | ● | | ● | ● | ● | | | ●(e) | | ● | | el | Greek | ● (e) | ● | | | ● | | ● | | ● | ● | | | | | | ● | | en | English | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | | eo | Esperanto | | | ● | | | ● | ● | | | | | | | | | | | es | Spanish | ● | ● | ● | | ● | ● | ● | | ● | ● | ● | ● | | ●(e) | | ● | | et | Estonian | ● (e) | ● | | | | | ● | ● | ● | | | | | | | ● | | eu | Basque | ● (e) | ● | | | | | ● | | ● | | | | | | | | | fa | Persian | ● | ● | ● | | ● | | ● | ● | ● | ● |