A command-line speech recognition application powered by Vosk. Automatically downloads and caches Vosk models to ~/.cache/vosk/.
- Real-time speech-to-text recognition
- Automatic model download and caching
- Lightweight ~40MB English model
- Press Enter to stop listening
- Auto-stops after 5 seconds of silence
- Portable binary (no Python installation needed)
- Linux x86_64
- Microphone
- Internet connection (for first run - model download)
# Install dependencies
pip install sounddevice vosk pyinstaller
# Build binary
make build
# Or show available commands
make help
# Clean build artifacts
make clean# Run the binary
./dist/speakControls:
- Speak into your microphone
- Press
Enterto stop listening - Auto-stops after 5 seconds of silence
- Checks for Vosk model in current directory
- If not found, downloads to
~/.cache/vosk/ - Loads and starts listening to your microphone
- Displays partial and final transcriptions in real-time
Default model: vosk-model-small-en-us-0.15
- Size: ~40MB
- Word Error Rate: 9.85% (LibriSpeech test-clean)
- License: Apache 2.0
Download more models: https://alphacephei.com/vosk/models
MIT License
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