Speech recognition and insert at cursor position

xdospeech.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3
import subprocess
import sys
import speech_recognition as sr

def get_audio_text(language=None):
    language = language or "en-US"
    recognizer = sr.Recognizer()
    with sr.Microphone() as source:
        print("Say something:")
        audio = recognizer.listen(source)

    try:
        text = recognizer.recognize_google(audio, language=language)
        return text
    except sr.UnknownValueError:
        print("Could not understand audio.")
    except sr.RequestError as e:
        print(f"Error with the speech recognition service; {e}")
        return None

def insert_text_at_cursor(text):
    subprocess.run(["xdotool", "type", "--clearmodifiers", text])

if __name__ == "__main__":
    # If a language code is provided, use it; otherwise, use the default
    # e.g. de-DE
    if len(sys.argv) > 1:
        language = sys.argv[1]
    else:
        language = None
    spoken_text = get_audio_text(language=language)
    
    if spoken_text:
        insert_text_at_cursor(spoken_text)

ChatGPT prompt:

How can I do voice typing in Linux we'll.like speech recognition. Is there a way to integrate this like a keyboard so for example that I have a button on my screen and it just inserts the spoken text at the point of the cursor

Preconditions

pip install SpeechRecognition
sudo apt install portaudio19-dev

Execute for en-US by just executing. Provide other locales such as de-DE as first parameter.