This is a shell script to toggle nerd-dictation on and off. You can bind this script to a keyboard shortcut in your desktop environment/window manager, or use it in a Cinnamon applet like commandLauncher@scollins.
By default, this script runs from and lives in a subfolder you create, nerd-dictation/toggle, when nerd-dictation is located at /home/$USER/Documents/git/nerd-dictation. Keep that in mind, or change the checked path.
If you want to combine other on/off commands, retooling this script might save you some time. I made this after realizing nerd-voice didn't have a toggle option a-la albert toggle.
Try holding ctrl+shift while dragging togglevoice from another Nemo window into one opened as root to /usr/bin. This will create a symlink, allowing you to run it without adding anything to your PATH. Note: You'll need to do this for the nerd-dictation executable for the script to work.
"Simple, hackable offline speech to text - using the VOSK-API." - https://github.com/ideasman42/nerd-dictation