dsnote
An offline speech-to-text and text-to-speech Linux app for note taking, reading and translating.
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dsnote is an offline speech-to-text and text-to-speech Linux app for note-taking, reading, and translating developed in C++ with open-source libraries under various licenses like MPL-2.0.
Good fit when
- - For users who prefer working without internet access while needing speech recognition and machine translation capabilities.
- - When requiring an application that integrates speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and translation functionalities suitable for desktop environments on Linux.
Avoid when
- - If the user's primary requirement is cloud-based services with real-time updates or extensive language databases not included in dsnote.
- - For users who need a cross-platform solution since dsnote specifically supports Linux desktop environments and not Windows or Mac OS by default.
- Requirements:
- - Requires C++ environment setup for building from source code, including dependencies such as autoconf, automake, boost-devel, cmake, and others.; - Must be installed in a Linux desktop environment. Install through Flatpak or build from source.
Observed Jul 17, 2026 · Source: enrich:decision_facts
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Maintenance and security
Full trust report- Maintenance
- Very active (4d since push)
- As of 3w
- Provenance
- Not a fork · Personal account
- As of 3w
- Security (OSV)
- No lockfile
- As of 1mo
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Install
git clone https://github.com/mkiol/dsnoteSimilar tools
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Overview
dsnote is an open-source application developed in C++ for Linux desktop environments that offers capabilities for speech recognition, synthesis, and machine translation without requiring internet access. The app is available as a Flatpak package through Flathub but can also be built from source code using specified build dependencies.
Capability facts
- Languages
- c++
Source: github.language · Jul 30, 2026
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Compatibility
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Source: README excerpt (regex_v1, Jul 30, 2026)
on-x11-devel libXtst-devel libtool meson openblas-devel patchelf pybind11-devel python3-devel python3-pybind11 qt5-linguist qt5-qtmultimedia-devel qt5-qtquickcontrols2Source link
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README
How to install
- Linux Desktop: Flatpak
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# optionally install build dependencies
dnf install rpmdevtools autoconf automake boost-devel cmake git kf5-kdbusaddons-devel libarchive-devel libxdo-devel libXinerama-devel libxkbcommon-x11-devel libXtst-devel libtool meson openblas-devel patchelf pybind11-devel python3-devel python3-pybind11 qt5-linguist qt5-qtmultimedia-devel qt5-qtquickcontrols2-devel qt5-qtx11extras-devel rubberband-devel taglib-devel vulkan-headers
./make_rpm.sh
License
Speech Note is an open source project. Source code is released under the Mozilla Public License Version 2.0. See the copy of the LICENSE
3rd party libraries:
- Coqui STT, released under the Mozilla Public License Version 2.0
- Coqui TTS, released under the Mozilla Public License Version 2.0
- Vosk API, released uder the Apache License 2.0
- whisper.cpp, released under the MIT License
- WebRTC, released under this license
- libarchive, released under the BSD License
- RNNoise-nu, released under the BSD 3-Clause License
- {fmt}, released uder this license
- Hugging Face Transformers, released under the Apache License 2.0
- Piper, released under the MIT License
- RHVoice, released under the GNU General Public License v2.0
- ssplit-cpp, released under the Apache License 2.0
- espeak-ng, released under the GNU General Public License v3.0
- bergamot-translator, released under the Mozilla Public License 2.0
- Rubber Band Library, released under the GNU General Public License (version 2 or later)
- simdjson, released under the Apache License 2.0
- Nlohmann JSON, released under the MIT License
- uroman, released under this license
- astrunc, released under the MIT License
- FFmpeg, released under the GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1 or later
- LAME, released under the LGPL
- Vorbis, released under this license
- TagLib, released under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) and Mozilla Public License (MPL)
- libnumbertext, released under the BSD License
- KDBusAddons, released under the LGPL licenses
- **QHotkey
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