Trying to install OpenWhisper on Zorin OS 18.1 Pro

[DCA1981]

I've been using Windows for years and I recently installed Zorin OS on my Windows Surface Pro 7. Basically I didn't like the direction that Windows was heading.

Right now I am trying to install a voice recognition software that I can use in any app on any. The one that I found that seems to be closest to like Dragon Naturally Speaking is OpenWhisper. But when I went to the website to install the Linux version. I ran into the following and I'm not too sure how to correct it.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you.

[Storm]

First you may need to to log into xorg instead of Wayland display protocol. Logout and change it to xorg.

Then open the terminal and copy/paste
sudo apt install ydotool

Then try again.

[Solrac]

Hello fellow Surface user! Pro 6 here.

I don't have an answer to your question, but out of curiosity I need to ask: Did you install the bespoke kernel?

[Forpli]

How did you install it? I tested to install OpenWhispr with the .deb file from github in a Zorin 18.1 Core live session running on Xorg and got no errors during the installation.

https://github.com/OpenWhispr/openwhispr/releases/download/v1.7.0/OpenWhispr-1.7.0-linux-amd64.deb

There is also an appimage version.
It should include all necessary packages.

I haven't tried to login into the app yet.

Edit: I notice just now that you are a step ahead at paste function.

This helpsite may help you. There are instructions with the commands for x11 and Wayland to install xdotool (for X11) or ydotool or wtype (for Wayland) if it doesn't work.
For X11/Xorg

sudo apt install xdotool

For Wayland

sudo apt install wtype

It sounds as if it is easier with wtype, because you need no daemon there if you want to stay at Wayland.

Linux - OpenWhispr

To find out your current session type enter in terminal

echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE

As Storm wrote, you can switch at loginscreen between Xorg/X11 and Wayland. For older hardware X11 is the better choice.