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Re: Curious what you use for offline keyboard/STT (speech to text) on Android

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Maria Sophia <mariasophia@comprehension.com> writes:

> AJL wrote:
>> On 4/28/26 6:34 PM, Maria Sophia wrote:
>> 
>>>I just invested a few hours into getting STT to work with Whisper and
>>>HeliBoard (which is a port of OpenBoard) that I wish I had known
>>>about AJL's suggestion to use Futo/Whisper instead since it's more
>>>elegant.
>> 
>> Not my suggestion. I don't have a clue what Futo/Whisper is. And my
>>  feet don't even talk much less whisper...
>
> Oh. It was Arno. My bad. Sorry for mixing you guys up.
>
> Anyway, I've got it all figured out, but it's as complicated as Google
> could possibly have made it.
>
> If I were to start over, I'd actually use Futo/Whisper.cpp, but since
> I already did it with Heliboard/WhisperIME, I'm gonna stick with this.
>
> It's working perfectly inside of PulseSMS and inside of WhatsApp which
> is mainly where I use voice to text. It works inside of Copilot too,
> but it's a few more button presses 'cuz Copilot's mic is desperate to
> send voice to Microsoft's cloud servers and when you use another mic,
> Copilot gets upset.
>
> Here are some screenshots of the working setup, but warning, it's
>  complex!  <https://i.postimg.cc/hjLR3wTH/whisper02.jpg>
>
> It's amazing, to me anyway, how super complicated keyboards are on
>  Android.  <https://i.postimg.cc/hvmzwKpf/whisper01.jpg>
>
> You'd never know it though, unless you tried to set up your own
> outside of Google/Samsung keyboards, although I suspect
> Futo/Whisper.cpp is easy.

I use Futo with Amazon FireOS 8. Amazon for some reason decided to
remove the speech to text from its keyboard, maybe to make people use
Alexa, which isn't a solution.

Although Futo is open source it asks for money from time to time, and
the permissions keep getting reset. Also it does not display any text
until the speech is finished and then all appears in one go. Apart from
that it works well.

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Curious what you use for offline keyboard/STT (speech to text) on Android Maria Sophia <mariasophia@comprehension.com> - 2026-04-27 18:58 -0600
  Re: Curious what you use for offline keyboard/STT (speech to text) on Android Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2026-04-28 09:48 +0200
    Re: Curious what you use for offline keyboard/STT (speech to text) on Android Maria Sophia <mariasophia@comprehension.com> - 2026-04-28 14:48 -0600
      Re: Curious what you use for offline keyboard/STT (speech to text) on Android Maria Sophia <mariasophia@comprehension.com> - 2026-04-28 19:05 -0600
  Re: Curious what you use for offline keyboard/STT (speech to text) on Android Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2026-04-28 09:05 +0100
    Re: Curious what you use for offline keyboard/STT (speech to text) on Android Maria Sophia <mariasophia@comprehension.com> - 2026-04-28 13:32 -0600
      Re: Curious what you use for offline keyboard/STT (speech to text) on Android Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2026-04-28 21:20 +0100
        Re: Curious what you use for offline keyboard/STT (speech to text) on Android Maria Sophia <mariasophia@comprehension.com> - 2026-04-28 19:34 -0600
          Re: Curious what you use for offline keyboard/STT (speech to text) on Android AJL <noemail@none.com> - 2026-04-29 02:56 +0000
            Re: Curious what you use for offline keyboard/STT (speech to text) on Android Maria Sophia <mariasophia@comprehension.com> - 2026-04-29 01:25 -0600
              Re: Curious what you use for offline keyboard/STT (speech to text) on Android Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com> - 2026-04-29 09:28 +0100
                Re: Curious what you use for offline keyboard/STT (speech to text) on Android AJL <noemail@none.com> - 2026-04-29 16:02 +0000
                Re: Curious what you use for offline keyboard/STT (speech to text) on Android Maria Sophia <mariasophia@comprehension.com> - 2026-04-29 12:15 -0600

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