Getting Involved

[Bridger Reed-Lewis]

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.

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.

On Sun, Jun 15, 2025 at 00:33 Benson Muite <benson_muite at emailplus.org>
wrote:

>
>
> 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?
> >>
>
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