Getting Involved
Bridger Reed-Lewis
bridgerreedlewis at gmail.com
Tue Jun 10 23:35:32 BST 2025
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.
Who should I contact within KDE? Because I really want to get this off the
ground, along with insuring accessibility needs are being addressed.
On Tue, Jun 10, 2025 at 14:27 Nate Graham <nate at kde.org> wrote:
> Hi Bridger,
>
> To help manage expectations here, the KDE e.V. board isn't directly
> involved with most technical planning and decision-making; 99.99% of the
> time we aren't directing what features get worked on by who. Generally
> speaking, the way changes and features get implemented in KDE is that it
> gets done by people who are passionate about the work, or who are paid
> to do it.
>
> If you can't do this work yourself, another option is to line up funding
> to pay someone else to do it. If that's not forthcoming either, the
> remaining option is to try to motivate volunteers to do the work in
> addition to or instead of the work they were already doing. This isn't
> impossible; I've had reasonably good success with it over the years. But
> there's never a guarantee of success with it comes to motivating
> volunteers. Hence "manage expectations."
>
> I wrote a blog post on this topic back in 2023 that's relevant here and
> still accurate:
>
> https://pointieststick.com/2023/07/16/where-bugfixes-and-new-features-come-from
>
> --
> Nate Graham
> KDE e.V. Board of Directors
>
>
>
> On 6/10/25 4:17 PM, Bridger Reed-Lewis wrote:
> > Oh, and to be clear, I don't have any background in coding and am just
> > here to test along with advice. If the board takes me seriously it is up
> > to them. Due to my disability, learning to code is not an option for me.
> > Shervin that git you shared, could you make a video about it showcasing
> > how it work, because i'd like to add it to a spreadsheet, i will be
> > putting together soon.
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 10, 2025 at 2:09 PM Bridger Reed-Lewis
> > <bridgerreedlewis at gmail.com <mailto:bridgerreedlewis at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> > Because right now, it requires someone with the knowledge of the
> > terminal, along with access to chatgpt to troubleshoot. If not they
> > either have to know what they’re doing or rely on the community to
> > help them.
> >
> > What I’m envisioning is something that built into the settings very
> > similar to what Apple has, so I think in about 2 months I should
> > have a decent presentation and summary of what they can do.
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 10, 2025 at 13:59 Shervin Emami <shervin.emami at gmail.com
> > <mailto:shervin.emami at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> > That sounds like a great idea.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Shervin.
> >
> > On Wed, 11 June 2025, 5:35 am Bridger Reed-Lewis,
> > <bridgerreedlewis at gmail.com <mailto: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 <mailto: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
> > <https://github.com/shervinemami/push-to-whisper>
> >
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Shervin.
> >
> > On Mon, 9 June 2025, 8:37 pm Bridger Reed-Lewis,
> > <bridgerreedlewis at gmail.com
> > <mailto: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
> > <mailto: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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