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Offline, privacy-respecting speech to text

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
android, kotlin
Domain
mobile

Research direction

No files or tests are named in the issue. Start by reading the app's existing recording and audio-playback flows, then assess how the proposed Futo speech-to-text capabilities could fit in. Done would need to cover offline transcription, speaker recognition, searchable transcripts linked to recording timestamps, and transcript export; the issue does not define narrower acceptance criteria.

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Description

feature request needs triage
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  • I made sure that there are no existing issues - open or closed - to which I could contribute my information.
  • I made sure that there are no existing discussions - open or closed - to which I could contribute my information.
  • I have read the FAQs inside the app (Menu -> About -> FAQs) and my problem isn't listed.
  • I have taken the time to fill in all the required details. I understand that the bug report will be dismissed otherwise.
  • This issue contains only one feature request.
  • I have read and understood the contribution guidelines.
  • I optionally donated to support the Fossify mission.
Feature description

Speech-to-text transcription of audios that recognises multiple speakers. Able to see text of any audio by dropdown, or search bar, and exporting of all trascribed text as well.

Why do you want this feature?

would also be able to allow for a transcript so you could have a search bar and go through your voice recordings and you could click through the exact moment that word was said in the voice recordings. so if i typed 'adam' it may find 4 hits from the past 4 months:
file191: 00:07
file179: 12:23, 16:30
file73: 06:42

you could then click on those moments to find the one youre looking for.

this could also be used for tagging, for example, if im working on a project called 'block runner' i could search for all mentions and tag them all easily

Additional information

Futo has partially delivered on this with an excellent FOSS solution:
https://gitlab.futo.org/alex/voiceinput
https://voiceinput.futo.org/

But the Futo solution currently works within other apps only and is not integrated directly into a voice recorder app. Adding Futo's speech-to-text capabilities to Simple Voice Recorder would make a voice recorded easily on par with Google's proprietary app.

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