I have Parksonism (Parkinson’s without the dopamine insufficiency). It would be very helpful if I could get this to work.
Has anyone been able to get this to work? I have set things up correctly. I can choose between ENG and text-to-speech. I restarted ibus. I have opened several applications (kate, etc) and I get nothing. Indeed, were it working, I could probably fill this text box.
At that point it is supposed to work. No? BTW, I have tested the microphone. Moreover, I have tested using email, kate, tweetdeck and LibreOffice writer.
I hope after following the second step of “ ibus restart ” , you have downloaded and selected the required model if not you can follow the below steps
Change ibus preferences from EN to “speech to text”.
ibus restart
From ibus setup tool you can get below options
You can select between “vosk“ and “whisper“ recognition backend engines, for smoother and faster speech recognition you can continue with “vosk” with smaller models and if you want more accuracy then you can select “Whisper“ but it can be slower as compared to “vosk”
You can enable “Preload Models“ & “Active on start“ options for faster speech recognition & smoother experience
You can disable the “System locale“ option to get more locale options
Now from locale section you can select any locale and click on 3 dots next to it to get available language models for selected locale, you can download any model, I would recommend to start with smaller models, larger models are more heavy to system and can get system slower.
Now after downloading & selecting the required language model from selected locale you can do “ibus restart“ again to load the selected model , and open any application to start dictation, sometimes it may take few seconds to start speech recognition.
Let me know if you are facing any problem after following above steps