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).
If you want Live Captions on Linux, check out https://github.com/abb128/LiveCaptions – 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.
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
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I just tried it. Really straightforward, even regarding the french model selection. Though it is better at recognizing my english rather my french
Joke a part, it is quite efficient. Thanks for the hint !