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Progress on my little speech2text/transcription project:

1. You press some hotkeys.
2. You speak into your microphone.
3. You wait for approx. 10 secs. (depending on your hardware)
4. Text starts to magically appear on your screen!

It feels like True Magic™! 🪄 ✨

This is why I love software development! ❤️

#Speech2Text #AI #Whisper #Rust #RustLang #Audio #AudioTranscription

Jan :rust: :ferris:

@janriemer@floss.social · 4 weeks ago

Ok, I have to correct myself:

Compiling any C/C++ project on Windows is an absolute clusterfuck!

I've now almost spent more time trying to compile my program for Windows than writing the actual code for it - let that sink in!

#Windows #CPlusPlus #Compile #Build #BuildSystem #CMake

Jan :rust: :ferris:

@janriemer@floss.social replied · 4 weeks ago

Whoop! It compiles now on Windows!

You'll never guess what the #error was...

...on my Windows machine I had a file sync program running in the background, which apparently tripped up the compilation process (the program to compile was in a folder that had been under sync)!

Once I moved the program out of this folder, it all compiled fine!

Holy cow! 🤯

Unfortunately, my program doesn't seem to work on #Windows yet. It just gets stuck after passing audio to #Whisper. 😢

#Fail

Jan :rust: :ferris:

@janriemer@floss.social · last month

Progress on my little speech2text/transcription project:

1. You press some hotkeys.
2. You speak into your microphone.
3. You wait for approx. 10 secs. (depending on your hardware)
4. Text starts to magically appear on your screen!

It feels like True Magic™! 🪄 ✨

This is why I love software development! ❤️

#Speech2Text #AI #Whisper #Rust #RustLang #Audio #AudioTranscription

Doug Webb

@douginamug@mastodon.xyz · 2 months ago

This post was written by voice input through the #Futo keyboard which uses #whisper. Free, open source and local - no internet connection! Seems to work very well for English and quite good for German too. I only had to add hashtags and correct two words manually.

Important addition: I was motivated to look for a solution for a friend who has multiple sclerosis, and it makes typing really hard for him. His messages are already longer and more detailed :)