<div dir="auto">Yeah I can figure something out, funding is going to be difficult with everything going on federally. But I’m sure there’s private interests that could help. Once I’m ready to give a report from the testing I’ve done. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Who should I contact within KDE? Because I really want to get this off the ground, along with insuring accessibility needs are being addressed. </div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jun 10, 2025 at 14:27 Nate Graham <<a href="mailto:nate@kde.org">nate@kde.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)">Hi Bridger,<br>
<br>
To help manage expectations here, the KDE e.V. board isn't directly <br>
involved with most technical planning and decision-making; 99.99% of the <br>
time we aren't directing what features get worked on by who. Generally <br>
speaking, the way changes and features get implemented in KDE is that it <br>
gets done by people who are passionate about the work, or who are paid <br>
to do it.<br>
<br>
If you can't do this work yourself, another option is to line up funding <br>
to pay someone else to do it. If that's not forthcoming either, the <br>
remaining option is to try to motivate volunteers to do the work in <br>
addition to or instead of the work they were already doing. This isn't <br>
impossible; I've had reasonably good success with it over the years. But <br>
there's never a guarantee of success with it comes to motivating <br>
volunteers. Hence "manage expectations."<br>
<br>
I wrote a blog post on this topic back in 2023 that's relevant here and <br>
still accurate: <br>
<a href="https://pointieststick.com/2023/07/16/where-bugfixes-and-new-features-come-from" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://pointieststick.com/2023/07/16/where-bugfixes-and-new-features-come-from</a><br>
<br>
-- <br>
Nate Graham<br>
KDE e.V. Board of Directors<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
On 6/10/25 4:17 PM, Bridger Reed-Lewis wrote:<br>
> Oh, and to be clear, I don't have any background in coding and am just <br>
> here to test along with advice. If the board takes me seriously it is up <br>
> to them. Due to my disability, learning to code is not an option for me. <br>
> Shervin that git you shared, could you make a video about it showcasing <br>
> how it work, because i'd like to add it to a spreadsheet, i will be <br>
> putting together soon.<br>
> <br>
> On Tue, Jun 10, 2025 at 2:09 PM Bridger Reed-Lewis <br>
> <<a href="mailto:bridgerreedlewis@gmail.com" target="_blank">bridgerreedlewis@gmail.com</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:bridgerreedlewis@gmail.com" target="_blank">bridgerreedlewis@gmail.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
> <br>
> Because right now, it requires someone with the knowledge of the<br>
> terminal, along with access to chatgpt to troubleshoot. If not they<br>
> either have to know what they’re doing or rely on the community to<br>
> help them.<br>
> <br>
> What I’m envisioning is something that built into the settings very<br>
> similar to what Apple has, so I think in about 2 months I should<br>
> have a decent presentation and summary of what they can do.<br>
> <br>
> On Tue, Jun 10, 2025 at 13:59 Shervin Emami <<a href="mailto:shervin.emami@gmail.com" target="_blank">shervin.emami@gmail.com</a><br>
> <mailto:<a href="mailto:shervin.emami@gmail.com" target="_blank">shervin.emami@gmail.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
> <br>
> That sounds like a great idea.<br>
> <br>
> Cheers,<br>
> Shervin.<br>
> <br>
> On Wed, 11 June 2025, 5:35 am Bridger Reed-Lewis,<br>
> <<a href="mailto:bridgerreedlewis@gmail.com" target="_blank">bridgerreedlewis@gmail.com</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:bridgerreedlewis@gmail.com" target="_blank">bridgerreedlewis@gmail.com</a>>><br>
> wrote:<br>
> <br>
> I think my goal is to test these out, and meet with the<br>
> board along with the accessibility person they hired to<br>
> recommend some changes for the OS so that these things are<br>
> more integrated into the system so that those with<br>
> disabilities can just easily use these out of the box<br>
> <br>
> On Tue, Jun 10, 2025 at 03:46 Shervin Emami<br>
> <<a href="mailto:shervin.emami@gmail.com" target="_blank">shervin.emami@gmail.com</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:shervin.emami@gmail.com" target="_blank">shervin.emami@gmail.com</a>>><br>
> wrote:<br>
> <br>
> Oh ok, so Bridger was thinking that the functionality is<br>
> already integrated into the dedktop environment, whereas<br>
> I was thinking that Bridger is willing to implement the<br>
> integration into KDE.<br>
> <br>
> The speech recognition engines convert speech files to<br>
> text, they don't have any OS integration. But it's not<br>
> that hard to implement basic OS integration by getting<br>
> speech recognition to emulate pressing keys on a<br>
> keyboard. I hacked together my own basic scripts for<br>
> doing that. You could turn my script into something more<br>
> convenient to use:<br>
> <br>
> <a href="https://github.com/shervinemami/push-to-whisper" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/shervinemami/push-to-whisper</a><br>
> <<a href="https://github.com/shervinemami/push-to-whisper" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/shervinemami/push-to-whisper</a>><br>
> <br>
> <br>
> Cheers,<br>
> Shervin.<br>
> <br>
> On Mon, 9 June 2025, 8:37 pm Bridger Reed-Lewis,<br>
> <<a href="mailto:bridgerreedlewis@gmail.com" target="_blank">bridgerreedlewis@gmail.com</a><br>
> <mailto:<a href="mailto:bridgerreedlewis@gmail.com" target="_blank">bridgerreedlewis@gmail.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
> <br>
> It’s installing right now, and no it’s not a feature<br>
> yet from what I know. I’m going to see how accurate<br>
> it is though once I get back from work. From what I<br>
> understand though it runs this in a separate window<br>
> not with the os, which is what I’m looking for<br>
> similar to what Apple and windows does it.<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> On Mon, Jun 9, 2025 at 02:06 Benson Muite<br>
> <<a href="mailto:benson_muite@emailplus.org" target="_blank">benson_muite@emailplus.org</a><br>
> <mailto:<a href="mailto:benson_muite@emailplus.org" target="_blank">benson_muite@emailplus.org</a>>> wrote:<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> <br>
> On Mon, Jun 9, 2025, at 12:52 PM, Bridger Reed-<br>
> Lewis wrote:<br>
> > Hey so I set up what I could with a older<br>
> laptop but I was looking through<br>
> > our past conversations, and I wasn’t aware<br>
> that faster-whisper didn’t work<br>
> > within program, is there a effort to fix this?<br>
> <br>
> You would probably need to file a bug report,<br>
> but without more details it is unclear<br>
> where. For example, which program does it not<br>
> work with? Does it work with any<br>
> programs? Is this on Arch with KDE on Wayland?<br>
> Do other programs similar to<br>
> fast-whisper work?<br>
> <br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
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