&gt; Decent speech recognition and text to speech. Nonexistent.<p>Nuance Dragon SDK runs on Linux, it&#x27;s not FOSS but it runs there.
Just no GUI &#x2F; Command Line App.<p>&gt; OCR is quite better, but still loses to commercial alternatives like ABBYY. Understandably so.<p>Nuance and ABBYY SDKs running on Linux. Quite well.
Just no GUI &#x2F; Command Line App.<p>Oh and you don&#x27;t need to use FOSS only just because you are using a FOSS OSS.<p>And yes Audio &#x2F; Video is pretty weak on Linux, thats true. However for most other things there are good enough tools.
Especially LibreOffice is really really great. 
It&#x27;s better for Users migrating from Office 2003 than to migrate to 07&#x2F;10&#x2F;13&#x2F;16. However there are weaknesses, too, like the Dictonary.<p>Also some bigger Office&#x27;s Macro&#x27;s aren&#x27;t easy replaceable. However Linux is good enough for the most.