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Dabri

Dabri is a speech-to-text program, available on Linux: voice input and commands, hardware acceleration, command-line use.

  • Completely free
  • Linux
  • Open source

Overview

Dabri is a speech-to-text program, available on Linux.

Features described in its Flathub listing and in its GitHub repository: voice input and commands, hardware acceleration, command-line use.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information
  • “Offline speech-to-text desktop app” — Flathub, 10 November 2026
  • “Converts voice input directly into any active window (editors, browsers, IDEs, AI assistants) using Whisper or NVIDIA Parakeet models locally for speech recognition.” — Flathub, 10 November 2026
  • “GPU and CPU support with Vulkan acceleration and CPU fallback” — Flathub, 10 November 2026
  • “▸ Terminal: it can also be invoked as a CLI tool (see CLI Usage Guide) for scripting purposes.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

All of Dabri is free: no feature is locked behind a paid plan, and its code is open.

Its licence (MIT) is a permissive open source licence: use, modification and redistribution are allowed, including in commercial projects.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • Commercial use allowed

About

A minimalist, privacy-focused desktop application for offline speech-to-text. Converts voice input directly into any active window (editors, browsers, IDEs, AI assistants) using Whisper or NVIDIA Parakeet models locally for speech recognition. For system tray integration on GNOME and automatic typing on Wayland, see the Desktop Environment Support Guide. Features: Offline speech-to-text, privacy-first: all processing happens locally Portable AppImage and Flatpak packages Cross-platform support for X11 and Wayland Linux desktop integration with GNOME, KDE, and others GPU and CPU support with Vulkan acceleration and CPU fallback Voice typing or clipboard mode Flexible audio recording with ALSA or PulseAudio/PipeWire Multi-language support, custom hotkey binding, visual notifications Model management: switch between Whisper models (base, small, medium, large-v3-turbo, large-v3) and NVIDIA Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3 via tray or CLI

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from Flathub (credit card, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Last technical check: 7 November 2026
  • Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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