Re: Getting Involved

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That sounds like a great idea.

Cheers,
Shervin.


On Wed, 11 June 2025, 5:35=E2=80=AFam Bridger Reed-Lewis, <
[email protected]> 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 <[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 cou=
ld
>> 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 ye=
t from what I
>>> know. I=E2=80=99m going to see how accurate it is though once I get bac=
k from work.
>>> 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=
 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-whisp=
er 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
>>>> similar to
>>>> fast-whisper work?
>>>>
>>>>

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<div dir=3D"auto"><div>That sounds like a great idea.=C2=A0</div><div><br><=
/div><div data-smartmail=3D"gmail_signature">Cheers,<br>Shervin.<br>=C2=A0=
=C2=A0=C2=A0 </div></div><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote gmail_quote_containe=
r"><div dir=3D"ltr" class=3D"gmail_attr">On Wed, 11 June 2025, 5:35=E2=80=
=AFam Bridger Reed-Lewis, &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]"=
>[email protected]</a>&gt; wrote:<br></div><blockquote class=3D"gm=
ail_quote" style=3D"margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,=
204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir=3D"auto">I think my goal is to test the=
se out, and meet with the board along with the accessibility person they hi=
red to recommend some changes for the OS so that these things are more inte=
grated into the system so that those with disabilities can just easily use =
these out of the box=C2=A0</div><div><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote"><div di=
r=3D"ltr" class=3D"gmail_attr">On Tue, Jun 10, 2025 at 03:46 Shervin Emami =
&lt;<a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"nor=
eferrer">[email protected]</a>&gt; wrote:<br></div><blockquote class=
=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rg=
b(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir=3D"auto"><div>Oh ok, so Bridger w=
as thinking that the functionality is already integrated into the dedktop e=
nvironment, 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">T=
he speech recognition engines convert speech files to text, they don&#39;t =
have any OS integration. But it&#39;s not that hard to implement basic OS i=
ntegration by getting speech recognition to emulate pressing keys on a keyb=
oard. 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"><b=
r></div><div dir=3D"auto"><a href=3D"https://github.com/shervinemami/push-t=
o-whisper" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noreferrer">https://github.com/shervine=
mami/push-to-whisper</a></div><div dir=3D"auto"><br></div><div><br></div><d=
iv data-smartmail=3D"gmail_signature">Cheers,</div><div data-smartmail=3D"g=
mail_signature" dir=3D"auto">Shervin.=C2=A0<br>=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 </div></d=
iv><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=
:[email protected]" rel=3D"noreferrer noreferrer" target=3D"_blank=
">[email protected]</a>&gt; wrote:<br></div><blockquote class=3D"g=
mail_quote" style=3D"margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204=
,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir=3D"auto">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 g=
oing 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, whic=
h is what I=E2=80=99m looking for similar to what Apple and windows does it=
.=C2=A0</div><div dir=3D"auto"><br></div><div dir=3D"auto"><br><div class=
=3D"gmail_quote" dir=3D"auto"><div dir=3D"ltr" class=3D"gmail_attr">On Mon,=
 Jun 9, 2025 at 02:06 Benson Muite &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:benson_muite@email=
plus.org" rel=3D"noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" target=3D"_blank">benson=
[email protected]</a>&gt; wrote:<br></div><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quo=
te" style=3D"margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204=
);padding-left:1ex"><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>
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