Post #817064

2026-03-15 16:41 UTC

Speech input is one of the missing features in #Phosh&#39;s stevia. I had looked at several possible solutions but didn&#39;t want to pull in a ton more dependencies into stevia itself. While looking for something completely different I stumbled onto #vosk-server which runs fully locally but can be talked to via websocket and so I could punch that into the prototype I had already alying around (video has audio): #LinuxMobile

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@agx@ruhr.social 2026-03-15 16:46

There's more work needed to make this usable (we don't have arm64 docker containers of vosk-server and it's not in any distros but most of it is in alpine already). There's also room for improvement regarding the recognition (it likes to guess "the" when there's no input as you can see at the end of the video). If you want to help out, jump into https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/stevia/-/merge_requests/279 . Thanks to dogman in the FLX1 channel for mentioning vosk which led me to vosk-server.

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@devrtz@fosstodon.org 2026-03-16 04:28

@agx wow, that looks pretty cool!

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@Techwizz@fosstodon.org 2026-03-16 06:17

@agx I think vosk would be a great way to go and was something I was thinking about some months ago. I'll give this MR a test on my device, thanks!

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@aho@mastodon.social 2026-03-16 13:33

@agx got me it feels like the mic is now disabled, maybe it's better to have current status on the mic instead what will happen next time you press the button, it's confusing and not good UI design.

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@benjistokman@mast.benstokman.me 2026-03-16 23:51

@agx I wonder, is there a mode for the keyboard to only show the top bar? Would be useful on devices with a mech keyboard.

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@mhenson@fosstodon.org 2026-03-19 16:32

@agx Looks great! Your mic button is backwards to me. In my opinion, the icon should show current state not toggle or future state.

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