Dictation

Speech-to-text is one of the few accessibility tools where Linux still lags. The options that exist tend to want a commercial cloud API, a Python toolchain with GPU model files, or an X11 session – and often all three. I wanted something that runs as a single static binary on Wayland, talks to whatever ASR backend I already have, and doesn’t listen until I tell it to.

dicta is that: a Linux/Wayland voice dictation daemon written in pure Go. No always-on microphone, no wakeword, no push-to-talk. Capture starts when you press a key and stops when the session ends.