Getting Involved

[Bridger Reed-Lewis]

I think my goal is to test these out, and meet with the board along with
the accessibility person they hired to recommend some changes for the OS so
that these things are more integrated into the system so that those with
disabilities can just easily use these out of the box

On Tue, Jun 10, 2025 at 03:46 Shervin Emami <shervin.emami at gmail.com> wrote:

> Oh ok, so Bridger was thinking that the functionality is already
> integrated into the dedktop environment, whereas I was thinking that
> Bridger is willing to implement the integration into KDE.
>
> The speech recognition engines convert speech files to text, they don't
> have any OS integration. But it's not that hard to implement basic OS
> integration by getting speech recognition to emulate pressing keys on a
> keyboard. I hacked together my own basic scripts for doing that. You could
> turn my script into something more convenient to use:
>
> https://github.com/shervinemami/push-to-whisper
>
>
> Cheers,
> Shervin.
>
>
> On Mon, 9 June 2025, 8:37 pm Bridger Reed-Lewis, <
> bridgerreedlewis at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> It’s installing right now, and no it’s not a feature yet from what I
>> know. I’m going to see how accurate it is though once I get back from work.
>> From what I understand though it runs this in a separate window not with
>> the os, which is what I’m looking for similar to what Apple and windows
>> does it.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 9, 2025 at 02:06 Benson Muite <benson_muite at emailplus.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jun 9, 2025, at 12:52 PM, Bridger Reed-Lewis wrote:
>>> > Hey so I set up what I could with a older laptop but I was looking
>>> through
>>> > our past conversations, and I wasn’t aware that faster-whisper didn’t
>>> work
>>> > within program, is there a effort to fix this?
>>>
>>> You would probably need to file a bug report, but without more details
>>> it is unclear
>>> where.  For example, which program does it not work with? Does it work
>>> with any
>>> programs? Is this on Arch with KDE on Wayland? Do other programs similar
>>> to
>>> fast-whisper work?
>>>
>>>
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