●● IRC: #techbytes @ Techrights IRC Network: Wednesday, July 23, 2025 ●● ● Jul 23 [02:54] schestowitz[TR3] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreplanet-discuss/2025-07/msg00028.html [02:54] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-lists.gnu.org | Re: Is AI-generated code changing free software? [02:54] schestowitz[TR3] "Hi Jean Louis, et al, [02:54] schestowitz[TR3] I guess I didn't make myself clear. Configuration/Setup is not the issue. The Numen project (in combination with 'dotool'/'xdotool' and 'keynav') provides a complete voice computer control system. Configuration is via a set of text files and is surprisingly flexible. I now have custom setup which, in principle, allows me to easily do all the tasks that you mention in your reply and many more. Basically, I should now be able to [02:54] schestowitz[TR3] do with my voice anything that I could do with the mouse and keyboard. If the underlying AI/LLM speech recognition system was up to the task this setup would be awesome! Unfortunately, it's not. [02:54] schestowitz[TR3] Numen uses Vosk (https://alphacephei.com/vosk/ ) as it's speech recognition engine. (I believe Vosk is in turn based on the Kaldi speech recognition toolkit: https://kaldi-asr.org/doc/about.html .) According to the documentation for Numen and Vosk, the default model used by Numen is 'vosk-model-small-en-us-0.15' which has a word error rate (WER) of around 10 (see https://alphacephei.com/vosk/models ). This means that, on average [02:54] schestowitz[TR3] , around one word ten will be wrong. [02:54] schestowitz[TR3] At first glance, a WER of 10 doesn't sound too bad for dictation ... but consider: Imagine that you've just dictated an e-mail with 200 words in it. About 20 of those will be wrong. That means not only that one has to go back and proof read the e-mail to look for the errors, but, presumably, voice control will _also_ be used to correct the errors also. But some of those commands will be misunderstood creating yet more problems. [02:54] schestowitz[TR3] Which brings me to ... [02:54] schestowitz[TR3] For computer control functions (editing text, selecting between application windows, selecting menu items, clicking on buttons, changing work spaces, etc., etc.) is sometimes a complete mess. In this case the AI/LLM is frequently being used to enter various control sequences. When _this_ goes wrong it can be a complete disaster! It can (unintentionally) delete big chunks of text, delete large numbers of emails, close application [02:54] schestowitz[TR3] windows, put the keyboard and/or mouse in an unresponsive state, and so on. Recovering from such errors has sometimes taken me an hour or more. That certainly doesn't do much for my productivity. :^/ [02:54] schestowitz[TR3] Clearly there are cases where even this level of functionality/reliability would be a huge win. Somebody who is unable to use a keyboard and mouse at all for example. For me, as I've said, it's basically a draw. For somebody with no problem using a mouse and keyboard it would just be a huge PITA. [02:54] schestowitz[TR3] As always though, this is just my $0.02." [02:54] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-alphacephei.com | VOSK Offline Speech Recognition API [02:54] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-kaldi-asr.org | Kaldi: About the Kaldi project [02:54] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-alphacephei.com | VOSK Models ● Jul 23 [07:50] schestowitz[TR3]
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    In simple terms, it attempts to rebuild what developers download, verify that the binaries originated from the public source tree, and raise an alarm if anything appears suspicious. Heres how the whole thing works.

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    Over a month after its previous 2.0.12 release, Fwupd, an open-source utility designed to simplify firmware updates on Linux-based systems, has rolled out its new 2.0.13 version.

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