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Speech Note #Linux desktop and #Sailfish OS app for note taking, reading and translating with offline #Speech to Text #stt, Text to Speech #tts and Machine #Translation https://github.com/mkiol/dsnote MPL-2.0 license https://github.com/mkiol/dsnote#how-to-install Speech Note let you take, read and translate notes in multiple languages. It uses Speech to Text, Text to Speech and Machine Translation to do so. Text and voice processing take place entirely offline, locally on your computer, without using a network connection. Your privacy is always respected. No data is sent to the Internet. Speech Note uses many different processing engines to do its job. Currently these are used: Speech to Text (STT) Coqui STT (a fork of Mozilla DeepSpeech) Vosk whisper.cpp Faster Whisper april-asr Text to Speech (TTS) espeak-ng MBROLA Piper RHVoice Coqui TTS Mimic 3 WhisperSpeech Kokoro Parler-TTS F5-TTS S.A.M. Machine Translation (MT) Bergamot Translator

Speed of Sound #Voice#typing for the #Linux desktop: Features Offline, on-device transcription powered by Whisper, Parakeet, Canary, and more. No data leaves your machine. Multiple activation options: click the in-app button or use a global keyboard shortcut. Types the result directly into any focused application using Portals for wide desktop support (X11, Wayland). Multi-language support with switchable primary and secondary languages on the fly. Works out of the box with a built-in multilingual Whisper model. Download additional models from within the app to improve accuracy and language coverage. Optional text polishing with LLMs (Anthropic, Google, OpenAI), with support for a custom context and vocabulary. Supports self-hosted services like vLLM, Ollama, and llama.cpp (cloud services supported but not required). Getting Started The easiest and recommended way to install Speed of Sound is from Flathub or from the Snap Store. Alternatively, AppImage, Deb, and RPM packages are also available from the releases page. For initial configuration, troubleshooting, and other resources, visit speedofsound.io #stt

SystemD Root Access Exploit Found, Devuan Team Calls SystemD "Unicorn Sh*t" "Found yet another high severity #systemd bug in #Ubuntu: local root privilege escalation (CVE-2026-3888) https://cybersecurity88.com/news/ubuntu-cve-2026-3888-timing-flaw-in-systemd-cleanup-enables-root-privilege-escalation/ Let us wish all #Devuan users a wonderful day out with their family for a merry father's day, instead of showeling unicorn shit." https://xcancel.com/DevuanOrg/status/2034560405968712179 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yukEnElXUg Lennart Poettering #microsoft#Linux#stalking#surveillance#backdoor#trojan

#Systemd Adds #Age#Verification & #Reddit#Linux Censors Age Verification Posts Plus: Which Open Source Operating Systems plan to include Age Verification? The Lunduke Journal compiles a list. Does It Age Verify?: https://github.com/BryanLunduke/DoesItAgeVerify https://lunduke.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3erhbwqIAM Lennart Poettering #microsoft#stalking#surveillance#backdoor#trojan

This is Probably the Best Video Downloader App (And it is Free and Open Source) | itsFOSS VidBee allows you to download videos from YouTube, Facebook, X, Instagram, etc. In fact, it supports over 1,800 websites. It is built on top of popular command line tools like yt-dlp and #ffmpeg. For the interface, it uses the Electron framework. I understand that some people dislike Electron framework as it runs a web browser underneath, but the 'advantage' of this framework is that you get the same interface in all the operating systems. At least, it's an advantage for the developers as they don't have to build the interface separately for #Linux, #Windows and #macOS. The source code for VidBee is available on its GitHub repository. #VidBee - Free Open Source Video Downloader https://vidbee.org/

AppManager GTK/Libadwaita developed desktop utility in Vala that makes installing and uninstalling #AppImages on #Linux desktop painless. It supports both SquashFS and DwarFS AppImage formats, features a seamless background auto-update process, and leverages zsync delta updates for efficient bandwidth usage. Double-click any .AppImage to open a macOS-style drag-and-drop window, just drag to install and AppManager will move the app, wire up desktop entries, and copy icons. Features Drag-and-drop installer: Mimics the familiar macOS Applications install flow. Smart install modes: Can choose between portable (move the AppImage) and extracted (unpack to ~/Applications/.installed/AppRun) while letting you override it. Desktop integration: Extracts the bundled .desktop file via 7z or dwarfs, rewrites Exec and Icon, and stores it in ~/.local/share/applications. Simple uninstall: Right click in app drawer and choose Move to Trash, can uninstall in AppManager or simply delete from ~/Applications folder. Install registry + preferences: Main window lists installed apps, default mode, and cleanup behaviors, all stored with GSettings. Background app updates: Optional automatic update checks with configurable interval (daily, weekly, monthly) and notifications when updates are found. Your Linux AppImages don't need to be disorganized. https://itsfoss.com/appmanager/ https://github.com/kem-a/AppManager/releases

A list of software #alternatives and resources for professional #audio#video and live events production on #Linux https://gitlab.com/nodiscc/awesome-linuxaudio https://github.com/nodiscc/awesome-linuxaudio/releases/tag/1.0.0

Collabora Launches Desktop #Office Suite for #Linux https://itsfoss.com/news/collabora-launches-desktop-office-suite/ https://www.collaboraonline.com/collabora-office/

#KDE launches its own #Linux distribution https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1037166/caa6979c16a99c9e/ https://kde.org/linux Comments

WhisperTux Simple #voice#dictation application for #Linux. Uses whisper.cpp for offline speech-to-text transcription. No fancy GPUs are required although whisper.cpp is capable of using them if available. Once your speech is transcribed, it is sent to a ydotool daemon that will write the text into the focused application. Features Local speech-to-text processing via whisper.cpp (no cloud dependencies) No expensive hardware required (works well on a plain x86 laptop with AVX instructions) Global keyboard shortcuts for system-wide operation Automatic text injection into focused applications Configurable whisper models and shortcuts https://github.com/cjams/whispertux #assistant#speech#stt

Zapstore Permissionless and social app store built on the #nostr protocol For #Android#Linux and #Mac https://zapstore.dev Download https://zapstore.dev/download/ Sources https://github.com/zapstore Secure by default Everything you install comes from trusted sources and is cryptographically verified. Not satisfied with the default? Choose your own curators, or mix and match! Censorship has no place in our world. Relevant to you Supercharged by the nostr open protocol, recommendations come right from your social connections — or use it in totally private way. With our growing catalog, you will never run out of great apps. Support your devs Connect with your favorite developers: send them direct feedback, request features and support them through micropayments, all without any middlemen. #apk#store

Olivia Online and local #music player for #Linux Desktop https://github.com/keshavbhatt/olivia Stable and Nightly Build on any snapd enabled Linux Distribution can be installed using: snap install olivia https://snapcraft.io/olivia Arch Linux User's Repository https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/olivia Features Olivia helps you discover new music and videos like no other service do. Smart Music recommendation, can get you songs related to any song. Allows organise music and videos at one place. Olivia can save track while you are streaming it, this saves your bandwidth. Olivia never stops playing song for you with its smart playlist feature it automatically starts playing related songs for you once your playlist ends. Watch or Download Video for any song in different audio video formats and quality. Allows search YouTube and add result to library, sort results and all other #YouTube features like browse channels. Plays audio only of YouTube streams (saves data bandwidth). Support themes , Dynamic theme based on album art. Intelligent Music Search suggestions engine integrated. Player Mini mode a minimal player widget with always on capability and allows set transparency and make it act like a desktop widget. Switch to Smart mode and sit back, olivia will play songs for you automatically. Internet radio, allows play more than 25k online radio stations, list them sort them according to most played , most voted, language wise, country wise and by tags . Olivia lets you browse new music according to your location. Olivia lets you discover music based on their genres, moods and more. Its easy to discover new music - singles, albums etc easily at one place. Top music chart, allows list top 100 songs country wise. Top albums chart, allows list top 100 albums county wise. Beautiful Client side Decoration. Lyrics of playing songs and separate lyrics search. Powerful audio equalizers and audio filters. MPRIS protocol support. Audio export with meta tags and album art. More features like cloud synchronisation of your Liked Music is coming soon, so you will be able to get your music back no matter where you are. #yt#spotify