Interest in building an LLM frontend for KDE

[Julius Künzel]

02.12.2023 15:08:47 Carl Schwan <carl at carlschwan.eu>:

> On Friday, December 1, 2023 5:44:26?AM CET Andre Heinecke wrote:
>> Hi.
>> 
>> On Friday, 01 December 2023 03:53:22 CET Loren Burkholder wrote:
>>> they can be quite useful for tasks like programming.
>> 
>> I need it desperately for intelligent spellchecking / grammar fixes ??
>> 
>>> Should we be joining the mainstream push to put AI into everything or
>>> should we stand apart and let Microsoft have its fun focusing on AI
>>> instead of potentially more useful features? I don't recall seeing any
>>> discussion about this before (at least not here), so I think those are
>>> all questions that should be fairly considered before development on a
>>> KDE LLM frontend begins.
>> I don't think so. I have the slight feeling that you want to start an
>> abstract discussion here and then magically the "KDE Community" will
>> develop something. Just do it or don't. It will always be in the users
>> freedom to use it or not. I would love to have an optional KMail plugin
>> that interacts with an LLM. Others might not ??????
> 
> I just want to point out that KMail has via KTextAddons already integration
> with many AI technology both online and local. This is not enabled by default
> and for many of the plugins this needs some extra configuration (e.g. API key)
> to work.
> 
> For translations, KTextAddons supports bergamot (local and open source),
> libretranslate (local and open source) as well yandex, deepl, bing, google and
> lingva.
> 
> For grammar checks, KTextAddons supports languagetool (open core and self
> hostable), grammalecte (open source but only for french).
> 
> For speech to text, KTextAddons supports whishper (local and open source),
> vosk (local and open source) and google
> 
> For text to speech, KTextAddons uses QTextToSpeech underneath which uses a
> varieties of local backend: https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/qttexttospeech-engines.html
> 
> More details can be found in the repo
> https://invent.kde.org/libraries/ktextaddons/
> 
> KTextAddons is currently used in Ruqola and the KDE PIM apps and I was hoping
> to at some point also find the time to add it to some QML app. Laurent already
> did some work to separete the core part from the widgets parts.
> 
> Cheers,
> Carl
> 
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