Dabri
A minimalist, privacy-focused desktop application for offline speech-to-text. Converts voice input directly into any active window (editors, browsers, IDEs, AI assistants) using the Whisper model locally for speech recognition.
For system tray integration on GNOME and automatic typing on Wayland, see the Desktop Environment Support Guide.
Features:
- Offline speech-to-text, privacy-first: all processing happens locally
- Portable AppImage and Flatpak packages
- Cross-platform support for X11 and Wayland
- Linux desktop integration with GNOME, KDE, and others
- GPU and CPU support with Vulkan acceleration and CPU fallback
- Voice typing or clipboard mode
- Flexible audio recording with ALSA or PulseAudio/PipeWire
- Multi-language support, custom hotkey binding, visual notifications
- Model management: switch between base, small, medium, and large-v3 whisper models via tray or CLI
Compatibility: Uses the C library of the system (may need glibc 2.35 or later)
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Usage
Dabri is available as an AppImage which means "one app = one file", which you can download and run on your Linux system while you don't need a package manager and nothing gets changed in your system. Awesome!
AppImages are single-file applications that run on most Linux distributions. Download an application, make it executable, and run! No need to install. No system libraries or system preferences are altered. Most AppImages run on recent versions of Arch Linux, CentOS, Debian, Fedora, openSUSE, Red Hat, Ubuntu, and other common desktop distributions.
This AppImage uses the C library of the system and may need glibc 2.35 or later. It does not run on distributions that use a different C library (such as musl on Alpine Linux) or an older glibc.
Running Dabri on Linux without installation
Unlike other applications, AppImages do not need to be installed before they can be used. However, they need to be marked as executable before they can be run. This is a Linux security feature.Beware! AppImages are usually not verified by others. Follow these instructions only if you trust the developer of the software. Use at your own risk!
Download the Dabri AppImage and make it executable using your file manager or by entering the following commands in a terminal:
chmod +x ./*.AppImageThen double-click the AppImage in the file manager to open it.
Sandboxing Dabri
If you want to restrict what Dabri can do on your system, you can run the AppImage in a sandbox like Firejail. This is entirely optional and currently needs to be configured by the user.
Updating Dabri
If you would like to update to a new version, simply download the new Dabri AppImage.
Integrating AppImages into the system
If you would like to have the executable bit set automatically, and would like to see Dabri and other AppImages integrated into the system (menus, icons, file type associations, etc.), then you may want to check the optional appimaged daemon.
Note for application authors
Thanks for distributing Dabri in the AppImage format for all common Linux distributions. Great! Here are some ideas on how to make it even better.
Pro Tips for further enhancing the Dabri AppImage
Please consider to add update information to the Dabri AppImage and ship a .zsync file so that it can be updated using AppImageUpdate. Tools like appimagetool and linuxdeployqt can do this for you easily.
Please consider making the Dabri AppImage self-contained, so that it does not depend on the C library of the system and runs on more distributions: ship the C library including its loader (ld-linux-*.so.*) and use it to launch the application, or link statically, and use the current, statically linked AppImage runtime.
Thanks for shipping AppStream metainfo inside your AppImage. Please open a pull request on https://github.com/AppImage/appimage.github.io/blob/master/data/Dabri if you have changed it and would like to see this page updated accordingly.