I want to point out that the Dragonfly library has backends other than the closed/commercial Dragon, and there has been significant progress expanding beyond it recently. I have been developing kaldi-active-grammar [0] for the past couple years as a fully open source, modifiable, cross-platform, and free alternative to Dragon when used with Dragonfly. While KaldiAG misses some of the user-friendly niceties of Dragon, these are least helpful when coding by voice. And KaldiAG has benefits such as lower latency that improves coding by voice tremendously.
I created KaldiAG because I didn't trust relying on closed source software for something so crucial to my productivity, where a decision by an outside party determines whether I can function. As a bonus, open source means I can make it work better to fit my needs than closed source ever could.
I want to point out that the Dragonfly library has backends other than the closed/commercial Dragon, and there has been significant progress expanding beyond it recently. I have been developing kaldi-active-grammar [0] for the past couple years as a fully open source, modifiable, cross-platform, and free alternative to Dragon when used with Dragonfly. While KaldiAG misses some of the user-friendly niceties of Dragon, these are least helpful when coding by voice. And KaldiAG has benefits such as lower latency that improves coding by voice tremendously.
I created KaldiAG because I didn't trust relying on closed source software for something so crucial to my productivity, where a decision by an outside party determines whether I can function. As a bonus, open source means I can make it work better to fit my needs than closed source ever could.
[0] https://github.com/daanzu/kaldi-active-grammar