<div dir="auto">Well idk 🤷 to be honest the most I can do is advocate and give suggestions. My goal is to install, and hopefully work with this community to improve accessibility. One thing I will be asking for is faster-whisper to be folks, and a setting button be added so it’s easier to install. Because right now it’s a nightmare to even get setup. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Outside of that, I still need to checkout all the text to speech software along with eye tracking, speech control stuff too. Because I think this should be just be a click away from installing compared to now where I feel like I need a damn degree in computer science to set it up. </div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Jun 15, 2025 at 00:33 Benson Muite <<a href="mailto:benson_muite@emailplus.org">benson_muite@emailplus.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)"><br>
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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>
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KDE applications are not directly packaged for Arch linux by KDE, but by 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>
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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>
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If there are problems with integrating with KDE software, that would be useful<br>
to know.<br>
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> 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>
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