How about OpenAIs whisper[0]? My social science friends tell me it‘s been great for them. Not sure whether data privacy et all would be an issue of course, but I guess you can just run it locally :)

[0]https://github.com/openai/whisper

Dragon is an app, whisper is a model with a CLI that takes .wav files. Totally different user experience.

you can run whisper locally on your machine.

If you run gnome then I made this: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/8238/gnome-speech2tex...

Dragon in Wine. A lot of the Talon users do it that way.

Okay the fact that Talon Linux use Dragon via Wine successfully is a big vote of confidence. I was reluctant to recommend that to my friend after seeing Wine's status page for Dragon but I'll give it a go!