As I have a broken hand, i need a speech to text program.
I installed Simon, but its too complicated. Could not find any text training files.
Hallo fixit7
The only software I know of that really works is “Dragon Naturally Speaking”. It runs on windoze and fruity OS.
It is in a class of its own.
If you really need it - you really need it. If you don’t have a compatible OS you might be able to get it to work running windoze in a VM.
They have a web-based version, but only for enterprises.
I hope this helps. 
Thanks, $200 is more than I can afford.
(Broke left hand after struck by car.)
Look at speech-recognition projects on github: https://github.com/Uberi/speech_recognition This uses Google’s speech to text cloud service, and it’s very accurate, but a bit slow. Oddly, it’s just as fast as Pocketshinx and Deepspeech, both of which I’ve gotten working locally on Ubuntu Mate, but they both suck. They are also slow and very inaccurate. Deepspeech should be better, but I never got it working on tensorflow-gpu compiled from source. It’s a hellishly complex setup process. Still, deep neural nets perform much better than the old fashioned hidden markov model software architectures like that used in Pocketsphinx. Anyway, the real benefit of the Uberi project is that the returned text can be used to call whatever functions you want to write. I believe that the Google-TTS cloud service has a per day limit for free accounts. Anyway, I think it’s your best bet. If you find something better, please let me know.
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Also, just for typing, Chrome has an application for dictation that’s really very good at https://dictation.io. Get it at the Web Store.
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Anything new here regarding Voice Recognition, since these 2017-18 messages ?
Can this : https://simon.kde.org/ work well on UM ?
In case anyone remains interested in speech to text, under WINE I installed & am using Dragon Naturally Speaking 10 .
It was a bit strange to install - and it does work - but only into WINE notepad which I then copy/paste from.
That version seems to appear constantly over at fleabay for ~$30 & that is where I got mine from.