[$] Transcribing audio with AI using Speech Note

One of the joys of writing about technology is the opportunity tocover interesting talks on opensource and freesoftware topics. Oneof the pains is creating transcriptions of said talks, or continuallyreferring back to a recording, to be able to write aboutthem. Speech Note is anopen-source application that uses machine-learning models, running locally, totranslate speech to text and take the pain out of transcription. Italso handles text to speech, and language translations. While notperfect, its transcriptions are better than one might expect, even whenhandling jargon, accents, and less-than-perfect audio.