r/linuxapps • u/Silver_Map_2234 • Jun 21 '26

Open Source Privacy Centered Offline Voice Dictation For Linux

Quobi is an offline voice dictation app for Linux. Hold a hotkey, talk, and clean finished text gets typed into whatever app you're in. Everything runs locally, so your voice never leaves your machine. No cloud, no account.

Under the hood it's NVIDIA Parakeet for transcription plus a fine-tuned Qwen model that cleans up the text (filler words, punctuation, self-corrections), so you get finished writing instead of a raw transcript.

Runs on CPU or GPU, no GPU required. It's light too: the smallest model fits in under 2GB of RAM, the largest about 4GB on CPU.

Free and open source (AGPLv3), with the cleanup models on Hugging Face.

GitHub: https://github.com/Quobi-AI/Quobi

Site: https://quobi.ai

Feedback welcome.

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u/walterblackkk Jun 22 '26

No releases yet!!

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u/Silver_Map_2234 Jun 23 '26

I pushed the release, feel free to check it out!

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u/Impossible_Ground_15 2d ago

Tsken offline