Aral Balkan
Just been blown away by how good Narrator and Live Captions are on Windows and it makes me even angrier that they aren’t just building an OS but an ad-and-AI infested surveillance nightmare. Mainly because it shows, yet again, what we could achieve in technology if everything wasn’t tied to a toxic business model and a suicidal system of perpetual growth with finite resources.
This should also shame the Linux folks (not volunteers, multi-billion/trillion-dollar corporations who profit from it).
Aral Balkan
Corporations that make billions from Linux treat accessibility like you treat the features that enable you to make billions from Linux challenge 2024.
(Go on, you don’t even have to really care about disabled people and you don’t even have to give up being sociopaths — it’s good PR. Win-win, assholes.)
Aral Balkan
If you want Live Captions on Linux, check out https://github.com/abb128/LiveCapt – you can also find it on Flathub and it works splendidly and, unlike the Windows version, it automatically saves a transcript. This is perfect for making your live streams and videos more accessible. And it’s free and open source.
Sevoris
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Aral Balkan
@bugmandan @owncast @peertube Now fixed (https://github.com/abb128/LiveCaptions)
Daniel
Link seems to be broken > https://github.com/abb128/LiveCaptions
Aral Balkan
Note: all recognition happens locally. The flatpak is also marked safe.
There are also language models you can download for French and Polish (https://abb128.github.io/april-asr/models.html)
#accessibility #a11y #captions #foss #streaming #videos #linux
Sevoris
@aral @owncast @peertube no worries, it happens. Looks very interesting! I bookmarked it for my software stacks.
Those have by now actually grown quite well.
You could not only use this in lifestreams, but on-the-floor presentations as well.
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Claudius
@aral @owncast @peertube WTF how is this not more widely known? this works surprisingly well out of the box?
Aral Balkan
@ButterflyOfFire Sorry, not sorry :) (And thanks.)
butterflyofChick ⏚ꝃ⌁⁂
@aral Why you are giving me more work to generate a model for my language? 🥲🤣
Aral Balkan
@semitones @owncast @peertube Yeah, it should. It captions the audio coming out of your system.
Semitones
@aral @owncast @peertube Hey, I'm not a coder, but theoretically could this work in Kodi?
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Karsten
@aral
I experimented with xttsv2 (check alltalk_tts if you want to play with it) on tge weekend and it always hits me so hard that we have most of the software in the open source but we severely lack the means of integration.
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