The Linux speech-to-text landscape has grown a lot — these days you'll find a microphone icon and voice input in pretty much every chat app and code editor. But just a year ago? Almost nothing had decent STT support on Linux.
That's when I started thinking about a proper solution — and solved the problem at the system level. Speak to AI is a voice "keyboard" for any window (chat, terminal, editor, etc.) that works natively and fast. The core workflow is simple: speak → text appears wherever your cursor is. Beyond that, it supports scripts and integrations — next step is turning it into an STT hub for smart home and other automations.
Works on any Linux distro and any DE. No Electron, no browser tabs, no cloud dependencies — just a lightweight Go binary with whisper.cpp doing all the heavy lifting locally. Privacy first.
📦 Download from Releases — AppImage, ready to run
Arch Linux (AUR): yay -S speak-to-ai
Fedora (COPR): sudo dnf copr enable ashbuk/speak-to-ai && sudo dnf install speak-to-ai
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