Mastodawn

Nov 28, 2023

It continues to make me sad that #linux has certain areas where it's just... given up.

Speech to text is one of those.

Every other platform has a speech to text engine. Linux has github science projects and demo scripts. Nothing worth using.

Why don't @pipewire developers move onto speech to text? I don't know.

I'm not sure we have the mechanisms in our industry to get programmers to serve users needs like this. It'll only really get solved when it's important to b2b imo.

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☃️karolherbst☃️

@doctormo @pipewire given up means that somebody actually started to look into it seriously.

The much I like to point out areas where Linux is lacking, phrasing things like this doesn't help at all.

The mechanism you search for is sponsorship. If one think it's needed then either you pay up and sponsor developers to work on it or you implement it yourself if nobody else did so already.

But hoping that programmers "serve" the users is pure entitlement.