Speech to Text for Deck keyboard

[MaximusX800]

Hoping at some point we can use the Deck mics, or any active mic, to do Speech to Text.

[retrogunner]

There's a feature request sub-group here for those kind of things.

To make it happen sooner, it should be entered as an Accessibility Feature Request for those folks with different physical challenges. Be sure to provide recommendations like Mozilla's and the offline options below.

I'm sure there's going to be some Able Gamers out there toting Steam Decks and they will want this option. Even an offline option when they are out and about.

The Speech to Text does not have to be online to use Amazon's or Google's engines. Mozilla is working on DeepSpeech, their FOSS STT engine -- something Steam could host themselves or outsource.
https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech#project-deepspeech

There's plenty of open source ones available for offline use - but YMMV
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/256138/is-there-any-decent-speech-recognition-software-for-linux

[Stevoisiak]

Seconding this request. Typing with voice would be a convenient option

[BENDER ₉₀₀₀ !?]

This is a request that I also had for SteamVR. Steamdeck needs STT also.

[SmokeTrail]

Absolutely this.

[Raxeuz]

Yoooo let's get somebody on this!!!

[Mte90]

Just a ping for this as I don't use the chat on steam for that reason

[Clone303]

well this would be nice idea, im not going to use but for other people, it would be really nice

[Durvann]

Any update on this?

[@R+5]

imo, since the virtual keyboard in the deck is probably coded by KDE devs, maybe you should try their forums to ask for this feature.

its also more likely for KDE to do this, than Valve, because even if speech-to-text can be convenient, they are probably busy fixing bugs and trying to make steam os better in other more basic aspects.

[JohnDeere_Simulations]

This would be vary useful for me i have Cerebral palsy and Autism it is vary hard to type long sentences.

[iGaming]

Still waiting for this, thought about it since this thread was made and there is still no viable solution. Come on, Valve.

[Ben Bernanke]

great idea. put in feature request

[r0m]

Bump for supporting the feature request, though the guy who said KDE is more likely to do this than Valve is probably right

[🐭]

waiting for this

[Marlock]

Hell yeah, I second this! Kudos for suggesting a FOSS offline STT engine for better privacy amd mentioning Mozilla's!