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Hello everyone! I am interested in replacing the Google Speech Recognition and Synthesis app on Android. For Speech-to-Text (STT), I've tried Whisper and FUTO, and settled on the latter because it seemed to be more versatile. Also, FUTO seems to have some decent recognition, but not yet capable of handling all the languages that I want. Regardless, so far happy with STT. The only annoyance I have is that it does not appear as an option in the settings for Speech recognition :(

However, I can't seem to find any replacements that have good Text-to-Speech (TTS) quality. I tried espeak-ng and RHVoice, but both have robotic outputs.

Given the recent advancements in AI, I was expecting that there would be ways to incorporate open source TTS models like Kokoro to generate speech on the go. Nevertheless, I could not really find any such apps so far.

Has anyone managed to completely replace the Google app with (an)other privacy-focused FOSS app(s)?

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I was vaguely aware of them but presumed they'd been added mostly for those who were more used to that UI convention: not something long-time users of Emacs might really need but Emacs (as usual) trying to accommodate all types of usage styles or preferences.

But, trying it out the other day briefly out of curiosity, I noticed that tabs could hold their own window configuration/layout (which, like, makes sense but hadn't dawned on me).

And I started thinking that I could use them in the same way I tend to use desktop workspaces: organizational buckets to put groups of windows in.

I've used registers to save particular window layouts but that has the added effect of, also, saving the point, as well (which, while I could keep saving to that register so I don't end up at a totally different portion of the file when I try to go to the layout, it's certainly less than ideal).

Tabs seem to keep track of your most recent buffer, per tab, – as well – so I can have each tab be their own little environment. I could open up Elfeed in one (along with all of the new buffers that might generate), a Magit buffer and various files from that repo. in another, and Wanderlust to check my E-mail in a third. And, whenever I switch to one, whatever other buffer I'd been working in before the current buffer of the tab is just a switch away because each tab keeps the correct buffer order of what was done in it.

Maybe this isn't new to anyone else but I rarely see people talk about tabs (other than brief, once-in-a-blue-moon mentions) but, while maybe not suitable for every person's workflow, this is yet another way the flexibility and power of Emacs just blows anything else out of the water, to me. It's such a useful iteration on the common UI structure.

Just wondering if anyone else uses them, found any pitfalls with them, etc. Mostly curious about people's experiences and if it's as infrequently used as my impression originally was.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/41819102

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In the Donetsk region, the Phoenix unit of the State Security Service of Ukraine destroyed a Russian infantry fighting vehicle with full ammunition.

The enemy continues to launch assaults in this direction, using both small infantry groups and heavy equipment.

Help our defenders who are holding the defense. Donate to the Russian cutter!

The unit is also currently recruiting drone operators.

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Silence is said to be golden - implying even some sort of material benefit or wealth as it's reward.

I wonder, how exactly does silence ever translate to material benefit or wealth?

Or just how precisely is silence golden generally speaking?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/41378275

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/35477677

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That's it. Anybody got any better ideas for something catchy?

Hey team, I'm at the Lincoln Memorial and there are a few more like-minded folks milling about. Maybe I've missed it in other posts or somewhere on the website, but where are we congregating to start? Lincoln Memorial, Washington Monument, the Capitol?

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