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Nice. Anyone interested in porting this to Android to replace Google voice-driven services? F-Droid needs this.

Sadly not possible with fdroid if it has api keys from proprietary services.

Oh, I though it did speech to text itself. It just calls one of several commercial speech to text engines run by Google, Microsoft, Facebook, etc.

Could CMUSphinx be used? That's open source speech recognition that can fit in a phone if you keep the vocabulary size down.

The whole thing is written in Python so it shouldn't be that hard. Maybe use something like QPython[0] It might Just Work.