In case you missed it: Whisper is an MIT-licensed speech recognition system with exceptional quality (IMHO): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whisper_(speech_recognition_system)

With whisper.cpp, it can easily be integrated into #i3 for on-device speech-to-text (STT) input into your terminal, editor, browser, etc.

Here’s the plumbing I have been using for the last month+ on and off for when I felt like talking instead of typing, including a #nixos flake:

https://github.com/stapelberg/stt-for-i3

Hope this is useful to some of you!

Japan diary, day151

I restore my old old laptop, Lenovo S21e, NetBSD + i3 + drawterm.
I couldn't install 9front to emmc of this.
There might be better ways to do this, but for now, I can use an old machine like a 9front terminal (^_^).

#netbsd
#i3
#drawterm
#9front

In case anyone else finds it useful, I have gotten around to cleaning up my personal emoji picker (created after my rofimoji installation broke one too many times; so now it’s in Go which doesn’t break), so in case you’re using #i3 and are looking for an emoji picker:

https://github.com/stapelberg/emoji-picker-for-i3 is the one that annoys me the least ;)

I configured it in my i3 config on key binding Super+M for “M”-oji 😂

Try it out on Nix-enabled systems, like #NixOS:

nix run github:stapelberg/emoji-picker-for-i3