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Antonio Zugaldia

@zugaldia@mastodon.social

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Building stuff, one thing at a time. Voice engineering at Mapbox. Former WHO and Silica Labs. Physicist. I have a bad feeling about this mission.

45 Followers

215 Following

12 Posts

Joined October 15, 2018

Homepage:

https://www.zugaldia.com

Speed of Sound:

https://www.speedofsound.io

Antonio Zugaldia @zugaldia@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

Great news: My little voice typing app for Linux is now available on both Flathub and Snapcraft. Links for both here: https://www.speedofsound.io/getting-started/

speedofsound.io

Getting Started - Speed of Sound

Voice typing for the Linux desktop

Antonio Zugaldia @zugaldia@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

New Speed of Sound v0.13 release is out! Added support for a system tray icon that works across distros, LLM providers get a Disable Thinking toggle to cut latency, a test connection button, plus the usual little improvements.

You can download the app from Flathub and Snapcraft: https://www.speedofsound.io/

speedofsound.io

Speed of Sound

Voice typing for the Linux desktop

Antonio Zugaldia @zugaldia@mastodon.social

· 29mo ago

Here we go #googleio

Antonio Zugaldia @zugaldia@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

Another write-up this week on Speed of Sound
https://letsdatascience.com/news/speed-of-sound-brings-offline-voice-typing-to-linux-19e70af5

Let's Data Science

Speed of Sound Brings Offline Voice Typing to Linux

Speed of Sound is a new open-source Linux desktop app that provides fast, private, offline voice typing by running `Whisper` and other on-device ASR models locally. The app inserts transcriptions directly into the focused application using **XDG Desktop Portals**, supports multiple activation methods (including a global shortcut), and ships with a lightweight multilingual `Whisper` model by default with optional downloads for higher accuracy. It also offers optional post-processing with LLMs and

Antonio Zugaldia @zugaldia@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

Fun to read piece about Speed of Sound on @omgubuntu@floss.social . Coincidentally, a new release addressing some recent feedback should be out in a couple of days. Stay tuned!

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/04/speed-of-sound-linux-voice-typing-app

OMG! Ubuntu

Type with your voice on Linux using this Whisper-based app - OMG! Ubuntu

Your mouth can (probably) say things quicker than your hands can type them, yet voice typing is rarely used as a primary input method on desktop, despite

Antonio Zugaldia @zugaldia@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

New Speed of Sound release (v0.12.0) is out!

You can now use NVIDIA Parakeet and Canary models for on-device transcription, alongside Whisper. More models = better accuracy across languages + more offline/private options.

Also: the app can now start hidden (for auto-launch on login).

Flathub/Snapcraft links and install instructions on https://www.speedofsound.io/getting-started/

speedofsound.io

Getting Started - Speed of Sound

Voice typing for the Linux desktop

Antonio Zugaldia @zugaldia@mastodon.social

· 18mo ago

GNOME devs: what's the modern approach for apps to add a status indicator to the Shell top bar? I understand libindicator is no more. An extension and GSettings to sync state?

Antonio Zugaldia @zugaldia@mastodon.social

· 29mo ago

After many years attending, and a long post-pandemic hiatus, I'm back at #GoogleIO in person next week! If you're around, ping me. I'm looking forward to connecting and reconnecting.