ibus-speech-to-text 0.7.0 introduces support for OpenAI's Whisper engine via pywhispercpp (python bindings of WhisperCpp) in addition to the existing Vosk engine.
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Metadata Update from @alking: - Issue assigned to matiwari
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Fixed the issue title ...
There were some important questions raised in the discussion thread: https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/f44-change-proposal-ibus-speech-to-text-pywhispercpp-selfcontained/179397/4. Procedural -1 to prevent approval before this is resolved.
Metadata Update from @sgallagh: - Issue tagged with: meeting
This will be discussed in the FESCo meeting on 2026-01-27 or 2026-02-03, depending on whether quorum is reached.
Added some questions to the Fedora Discussions thread from the FESCo meeting today: https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/179397/10
I'm withdrawing my procedural -1 to clear the slate.
Let's discuss this during the meeting today (18:00 GMT in https://matrix.to/#/#meeting:fedoraproject.org). I think we might want to make a recommendation to package at least one smaller model to make the UX better.
This was discussed during the meeting today: APPROVED (+5, 1, -0): Change is approved. FESCo recommends that at least one small useful model is packaged.
Metadata Update from @zbyszek: - Issue close_status updated to: Accepted - Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)
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