Re: Getting Involved

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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 <[email protected]> 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 coul=
d
> 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=E2=80=AFpm Bridger Reed-Lewis, <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> It=E2=80=99s installing right now, and no it=E2=80=99s not a feature yet=
 from what I
>> know. I=E2=80=99m 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=E2=80=99m looking for similar to what Apple and =
windows
>> does it.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 9, 2025 at 02:06 Benson Muite <[email protected]>
>> 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=E2=80=99t aware that faster-whispe=
r didn=E2=80=99t
>>> 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 simila=
r
>>> to
>>> fast-whisper work?
>>>
>>>

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<div dir=3D"auto">I think my goal is to test these out, and meet with the b=
oard along with the accessibility person they hired to recommend some chang=
es for the OS so that these things are more integrated into the system so t=
hat those with disabilities can just easily use these out of the box=C2=A0<=
/div><div><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir=3D"=
ltr" class=3D"gmail_attr">On Tue, Jun 10, 2025 at 03:46 Shervin Emami &lt;<=
a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>&gt; w=
rote:<br></div><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0px 0px 0p=
x 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;bord=
er-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><div dir=3D"auto"><div>Oh ok, so Bridger wa=
s thinking that the functionality is already integrated into the dedktop en=
vironment, whereas I was thinking that Bridger is willing to implement the =
integration into KDE.</div><div dir=3D"auto"><br></div><div dir=3D"auto">Th=
e speech recognition engines convert speech files to text, they don&#39;t h=
ave any OS integration. But it&#39;s not that hard to implement basic OS in=
tegration by getting speech recognition to emulate pressing keys on a keybo=
ard. I hacked together my own basic scripts for doing that. You could turn =
my script into something more convenient to use:</div><div dir=3D"auto"><br=
></div><div dir=3D"auto"><a href=3D"https://github.com/shervinemami/push-to=
-whisper" target=3D"_blank">https://github.com/shervinemami/push-to-whisper=
</a></div><div dir=3D"auto"><br></div><div><br></div><div data-smartmail=3D=
"gmail_signature">Cheers,</div><div data-smartmail=3D"gmail_signature" dir=
=3D"auto">Shervin.=C2=A0<br>=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 </div></div><br><div class=
=3D"gmail_quote"><div dir=3D"ltr" class=3D"gmail_attr">On Mon, 9 June 2025,=
 8:37=E2=80=AFpm Bridger Reed-Lewis, &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:bridgerreedlewis=
@gmail.com" rel=3D"noreferrer" target=3D"_blank">[email protected]=
</a>&gt; wrote:<br></div><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:=
0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-lef=
t:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><div dir=3D"auto">It=E2=80=99s in=
stalling right now, and no it=E2=80=99s not a feature yet from what I know.=
 I=E2=80=99m going to see how accurate it is though once I get back from wo=
rk. From what I understand though it runs this in a separate window not wit=
h the os, which is what I=E2=80=99m looking for similar to what Apple and w=
indows does it.=C2=A0</div><div dir=3D"auto"><br></div><div dir=3D"auto"><b=
r><div class=3D"gmail_quote" dir=3D"auto"><div dir=3D"ltr" class=3D"gmail_a=
ttr">On Mon, Jun 9, 2025 at 02:06 Benson Muite &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:benson=
[email protected]" rel=3D"noreferrer noreferrer" target=3D"_blank">benso=
[email protected]</a>&gt; wrote:<br></div><blockquote class=3D"gmail_qu=
ote" style=3D"margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-st=
yle:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><br>
<br>
On Mon, Jun 9, 2025, at 12:52 PM, Bridger Reed-Lewis wrote:<br>
&gt; Hey so I set up what I could with a older laptop but I was looking thr=
ough<br>
&gt; our past conversations, and I wasn=E2=80=99t aware that faster-whisper=
 didn=E2=80=99t work<br>
&gt; within program, is there a effort to fix this?<br>
<br>
You would probably need to file a bug report, but without more details it i=
s unclear<br>
where.=C2=A0 For example, which program does it not work with? Does it work=
 with any<br>
programs? Is this on Arch with KDE on Wayland? Do other programs similar to=
<br>
fast-whisper work?<br>
<br>
</blockquote></div></div>
</blockquote></div>
</blockquote></div></div>

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