Audio to Text (Dictation) tool recommendation?

There won’t be an easy, click to record solution that works well.

For the application to recognize and interpret the audio correctly, it has to adapt. This is why most of such apps you see are AI based. They need to be ‘trained’ on the user input. And AI computing is expensive. This is why the tools you see are developer focused.

If I come across a ready-to-use by the end user tool, I’ll surely cover it on It’s FOSS.