Getting Involved

[Benson Muite]

On Sun, Jun 15, 2025, at 11:24 AM, Rob Whyte [Fudge] wrote:
> You could get someone to build a package that depends on all you 
> separate packages and also makes system changes using gsettings.
>
> You can use packages to update configuration files also.
>
> Would this be a possible solution?
>
>
> Speak to someone on the KDE core team about packaging your changes.

KDE applications are not directly packaged for Arch linux by KDE, but by Arch
linux packagers.  The Arch package repository does contain KDE packages:
https://archlinux.org/packages/

but faster-whisper seems like a candidate for AUR
https://aur.archlinux.org/
and seems to already be there:
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python-faster-whisper

If there are problems with integrating with KDE software, that would be useful
to know.

>
>
> cheers
>
>
> On 11/06/2025 8:09 am, Bridger Reed-Lewis 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> 
>> wrote:
>>
>>     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?
>>