<div dir="ltr"> I just joined the matrix chat, other than the one I should join or multiple?</div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Jun 15, 2025 at 7:26 PM Bridger Reed-Lewis <<a href="mailto:bridgerreedlewis@gmail.com">bridgerreedlewis@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Thank you for sharing that with me, I wasn't aware of the <a href="https://zendalona.com/accessible-coconut/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">zendalona</a> project. I am going to install it on a VM to see how it works, and maybe we can chat about integrating their work into KDE. Also as you said, yes i want to contribute to linux as a whole not just one flavor or distro. I guess how I look at it is, I should just concentrate on the most popular flavor, and work my way down the list. Oh, yeah I did end up seeing a lack of an accessibility category on their site. It was definitely frustrating. </div><div><br></div><div>Oh, and I am doing the same thing, managing my time has been like pulling teeth lately. I volunteer a lot myself, not just for this project. So I understand, and respect others' precious time. About the equipment, I did have a question. In about 6-12 months, I wanted to purchase a linux compatible tablet, and phone to do similar testing. Do you have any recommendations?</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Jun 15, 2025 at 2:23 AM Benson Muite <<a href="mailto:benson_muite@emailplus.org" target="_blank">benson_muite@emailplus.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
On Sun, Jun 15, 2025, at 11:54 AM, Bridger Reed-Lewis wrote:<br>
> Well idk 🤷 to be honest the most I can do is advocate and give<br>
> suggestions. My goal is to install, and hopefully work with this community<br>
> to improve accessibility. One thing I will be asking for is faster-whisper<br>
> to be folks, and a setting button be added so it’s easier to install.<br>
> Because right now it’s a nightmare to even get setup.<br>
<br>
The drawback with being able to customize your operating system is having lots<br>
of options - it takes some time to figure out which ones are suitable for you. If you<br>
will use Arch, get on their community channels, which are forums, irc and mailing lists:<br>
<a href="https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Getting_involved" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Getting_involved</a><br>
Arch is a developer focused distribution - it allows you to do a lot, but also requires some<br>
time investment to make changes yourself with community assistance.<br>
<br>
Distributions such as:<br>
<a href="https://zendalona.com/accessible-coconut/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://zendalona.com/accessible-coconut/</a><br>
are focused on accessibility.<br>
<br>
There is an effort to develop KDE Linux:<br>
<a href="https://community.kde.org/KDE_Linux" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://community.kde.org/KDE_Linux</a><br>
<br>
contact them in Matrix ( <a href="https://go.kde.org/matrix/#/%23kde-linux:kde.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://go.kde.org/matrix/#/%23kde-linux:kde.org</a> ) to see how<br>
much accessibility support is currently available and what they would be willing to add<br>
in the near term. It is fairly new, so may have things that prevent it from being usable<br>
for you.<br>
<br>
Not everyone who contributes to KDE uses KDE linux though. As an example, it would<br>
be easier for me to contribute to Vojtux:<br>
<a href="https://github.com/vojtapolasek/vojtux" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/vojtapolasek/vojtux</a><br>
<br>
<br>
><br>
> Outside of that, I still need to checkout all the text to speech software<br>
> along with eye tracking, speech control stuff too. Because I think this<br>
> should be just be a click away from installing compared to now where I feel<br>
> like I need a damn degree in computer science to set it up.<br>
<br>
Suggestions for KDE applications that can help with accessibility are welcome. Debian has a list at:<br>
<a href="https://blends.debian.org/accessibility/tasks/kde" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://blends.debian.org/accessibility/tasks/kde</a><br>
<br>
Maybe this is something KDE should highlight at <a href="https://apps.kde.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://apps.kde.org/</a> an accessibility category<br>
is missing.<br>
<br>
KDE did have a speech recognition application Simon:<br>
<a href="https://apps.kde.org/simon/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://apps.kde.org/simon/</a><br>
but it is currently unmaintained.<br>
<br>
If you expect to purchase again, and want dedicated support consider contacting companies that<br>
provide linux laptops, for example:<br>
<a href="https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/penguin-t4-gnulinux-laptop" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/penguin-t4-gnulinux-laptop</a><br>
<a href="https://slimbook.com/en/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://slimbook.com/en/</a><br>
<a href="https://kfocus.org/spec/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://kfocus.org/spec/</a><br>
<a href="https://manjaro.org/enterprise" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://manjaro.org/enterprise</a><br>
<a href="https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/</a><br>
<a href="https://system76.com/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://system76.com/</a><br>
<br>
<br>
Most of us who contribute do so as volunteers as time permits - we appreciate the freedom<br>
to change and improve things, but also need to prioritize with other things in life.<br>
<br>
><br>
> On Sun, Jun 15, 2025 at 00:33 Benson Muite <<a href="mailto:benson_muite@emailplus.org" target="_blank">benson_muite@emailplus.org</a>><br>
> wrote:<br>
><br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> On Sun, Jun 15, 2025, at 11:24 AM, Rob Whyte [Fudge] wrote:<br>
>> > You could get someone to build a package that depends on all you<br>
>> > separate packages and also makes system changes using gsettings.<br>
>> ><br>
>> > You can use packages to update configuration files also.<br>
>> ><br>
>> > Would this be a possible solution?<br>
>> ><br>
>> ><br>
>> > Speak to someone on the KDE core team about packaging your changes.<br>
>><br>
>> KDE applications are not directly packaged for Arch linux by KDE, but by<br>
>> Arch<br>
>> linux packagers. The Arch package repository does contain KDE packages:<br>
>> <a href="https://archlinux.org/packages/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://archlinux.org/packages/</a><br>
>><br>
>> but faster-whisper seems like a candidate for AUR<br>
>> <a href="https://aur.archlinux.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://aur.archlinux.org/</a><br>
>> and seems to already be there:<br>
>> <a href="https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python-faster-whisper" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python-faster-whisper</a><br>
>><br>
>> If there are problems with integrating with KDE software, that would be<br>
>> useful<br>
>> to know.<br>
>><br>
>> ><br>
>> ><br>
>> > cheers<br>
>> ><br>
>> ><br>
>> > On 11/06/2025 8:09 am, Bridger Reed-Lewis wrote:<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 have<br>
>> >> 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>
>> >> 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>> wrote:<br>
>> >><br>
>> >> I think my goal is to test these out, and meet with the board<br>
>> >> along with the accessibility person they hired to recommend<br>
>> >> some changes for the OS so that these things are more<br>
>> >> integrated into the system so that those with disabilities can<br>
>> >> 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>> wrote:<br>
>> >><br>
>> >> Oh ok, so Bridger was thinking that the functionality is<br>
>> >> already integrated into the dedktop environment, whereas I<br>
>> >> 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 keyboard.<br>
>> >> I hacked together my own basic scripts for doing that. You<br>
>> >> could turn my script into something more 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>
>> >><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>> 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 it<br>
>> >> 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 similar<br>
>> >> 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>> wrote:<br>
>> >><br>
>> >><br>
>> >><br>
>> >> On Mon, Jun 9, 2025, at 12:52 PM, Bridger<br>
>> >> Reed-Lewis wrote:<br>
>> >> > Hey so I set up what I could with a older laptop<br>
>> >> but I was looking through<br>
>> >> > our past conversations, and I wasn’t aware that<br>
>> >> 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, but<br>
>> >> 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? Do<br>
>> >> other programs similar to<br>
>> >> fast-whisper work?<br>
>> >><br>
>><br>
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