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[Shervin Emami]

That sounds like a great idea.

Cheers,
Shervin.


On Wed, 11 June 2025, 5:35 am Bridger Reed-Lewis, <
bridgerreedlewis at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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