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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Interest in building an LLM frontend for KDE
From:       Julius_Künzel <jk.kdedev () smartlab ! uber ! space>
Date:       2023-12-02 15:38:37
Message-ID: 7971a617-0aea-4661-aa1f-a6d703e577be () smartlab ! uber ! space
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02.12.2023 15:08:47 Carl Schwan <carl@carlschwan.eu>:

> On Friday, December 1, 2023 5:44:26?AM CET Andre Heinecke wrote:
> > Hi.
> > 
> > On Friday, 01 December 2023 03:53:22 CET Loren Burkholder wrote:
> > > they can be quite useful for tasks like programming.
> > 
> > I need it desperately for intelligent spellchecking / grammar fixes ??
> > 
> > > Should we be joining the mainstream push to put AI into everything or
> > > should we stand apart and let Microsoft have its fun focusing on AI
> > > instead of potentially more useful features? I don't recall seeing \
> > > any discussion about this before (at least not here), so I think \
> > > those are all questions that should be fairly considered before \
> > > development on a KDE LLM frontend begins.
> > I don't think so. I have the slight feeling that you want to start an
> > abstract discussion here and then magically the "KDE Community" will
> > develop something. Just do it or don't. It will always be in the users
> > freedom to use it or not. I would love to have an optional KMail plugin
> > that interacts with an LLM. Others might not ??????
> 
> I just want to point out that KMail has via KTextAddons already \
> integration with many AI technology both online and local. This is not \
> enabled by default and for many of the plugins this needs some extra \
> configuration (e.g. API key) to work.
> 
> For translations, KTextAddons supports bergamot (local and open source),
> libretranslate (local and open source) as well yandex, deepl, bing, \
> google and lingva.
> 
> For grammar checks, KTextAddons supports languagetool (open core and self
> hostable), grammalecte (open source but only for french).
> 
> For speech to text, KTextAddons supports whishper (local and open \
> source), vosk (local and open source) and google
> 
> For text to speech, KTextAddons uses QTextToSpeech underneath which uses \
> a varieties of local backend: \
> https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/qttexttospeech-engines.html 
> More details can be found in the repo
> https://invent.kde.org/libraries/ktextaddons/
> 
> KTextAddons is currently used in Ruqola and the KDE PIM apps and I was \
> hoping to at some point also find the time to add it to some QML app. \
> Laurent already did some work to separete the core part from the widgets \
> parts. 
> Cheers,
> Carl
> 
> 

That is interesting, because we use Whisper and VOSK for subtitle \
generation (speech-to-text) in Kdenlive too. However unfortunately \
KTextAddons seem to have zero (API) documentation. I guess this might be \
one of the reasons its features are pretty unknown to devs outside of the \
pim universe.

Cheers,
Julius

(Sorry for the empty message I accidentally sent before)


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