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We’re so excited to share that the 22nd dataset release for Common Voice is now available for download.

Common Voice 22.0 has an additional 281 hours of speech data, bringing the total number of hours to 33,815. This release has also seen a jump in 296 newly validated hours, with a total of 22,640 validated hours of clips. This release welcomes the addition of Aromanian (rup), Tajik (tg), and Venda/Tshivenda (ve) languages.

Aromanian is spoken by around 210,000 people in the Balkans, while Tajik is a language closely related to Persian spoken in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan by over 10 million people. Venda / Tshivenda is spoken by over 2 million people as a first or other language in South Africa and Zimbabwe.

This brings the total number of languages available in this Scripted Speech release to 137.

For those unfamiliar:

Common Voice is a crowdsourcing project started by Mozilla to create a free and open speech corpus. The project is supported by volunteers who record sample sentences with a microphone and review recordings of other users. The transcribed sentences are collected in a voice database available under the public domain license CC0.[1] This license ensures that developers can use the database for voice-to-text and text-to-voice applications without restrictions or costs.

Excerpts from the Changelog:

What's Changed

• add blitzw.in instance by @gigirassy in https://github.com/LibreTranslate/LibreTranslate/pull/770
• 🌏 i18n: Improve Catalan translation by @seicifarre in https://github.com/LibreTranslate/LibreTranslate/pull/777
• Support for ISO 639-1 - 15924 codes by @pierotofy in https://github.com/LibreTranslate/LibreTranslate/pull/780
• Update Dockerfile #737 by @jpralves in https://github.com/LibreTranslate/LibreTranslate/pull/785
• Update Requirements: argos-translate-files srt support by @theUnrealSamurai in https://github.com/LibreTranslate/LibreTranslate/pull/786
• Add fingerprinting mechanism by @pierotofy in https://github.com/LibreTranslate/LibreTranslate/pull/787
• Attack mode support by @pierotofy in https://github.com/LibreTranslate/LibreTranslate/pull/788
• Mark Chinese as reviewed in the README's UI Languages list by @LTSlw in https://github.com/LibreTranslate/LibreTranslate/pull/789
• Add 2 variations of Dockerfile by @warren-bank in https://github.com/LibreTranslate/LibreTranslate/pull/790
• Added full Spanish translation (README.es.md) and link in main README by @KerySeverino in https://github.com/LibreTranslate/LibreTranslate/pull/793
• Added full spanish translation (TRADEMARK.es.md) and small bug fixes. by @KerySeverino in https://github.com/LibreTranslate/LibreTranslate/pull/795
• Added full spanish translation (CONTRIBUTING.es.md) and Synced latests. by @KerySeverino in https://github.com/LibreTranslate/LibreTranslate/pull/799
• Synced latests. by @KerySeverino in https://github.com/LibreTranslate/LibreTranslate/pull/802
• Add Kazakh locale to libretranslate/locales/kk/ by @AnmiTaliDev in https://github.com/LibreTranslate/LibreTranslate/pull/805
• Support LT_PORT in healtcheck script by @DL6ER in https://github.com/LibreTranslate/LibreTranslate/pull/810
• Add new option --frontend-language by @DL6ER in https://github.com/LibreTranslate/LibreTranslate/pull/811
• Add --hide-api to hide the API request/response fields from the web interface by @DL6ER in https://github.com/LibreTranslate/LibreTranslate/pull/812
• Add user-customizable by @DL6ER in https://github.com/LibreTranslate/LibreTranslate/pull/814
• Hide API-related extra buttons if --hide-api is specified by @DL6ER in https://github.com/LibreTranslate/LibreTranslate/pull/813
• healthcheck.py: Fail on non 200 status by @736-c41-2c1-e464fc974 in https://github.com/LibreTranslate/LibreTranslate/pull/822
• Improve swagger definitions by @pierotofy in https://github.com/LibreTranslate/LibreTranslate/pull/823
• Link to docs, move readme information by @pierotofy in https://github.com/LibreTranslate/LibreTranslate/pull/825

Excerpts from the Changelog:

Whispering v7.0.0 represents the biggest rewrite in the project's entire history. We completely rewrote the application's query layer, service architecture, and UI foundations.

This is a comprehensive architectural overhaul that enhances everything. The UI responds more quickly to your actions. Errors are clearer and recover automatically. The new visual shortcut recorder displays your key combinations in real-time. And with support for local transcription through Speaches, you can now use Whispering completely offline without any API keys.

But honestly, what you'll notice most is just how much smoother everything feels. The app responds the way you'd expect it to, without the weird delays or quirks from v6.

Excerpts from the Changelog:

Whispering v7.0.0 represents the biggest rewrite in the project's entire history. We completely rewrote the application's query layer, service architecture, and UI foundations.

This is a comprehensive architectural overhaul that enhances everything. The UI responds more quickly to your actions. Errors are clearer and recover automatically. The new visual shortcut recorder displays your key combinations in real-time. And with support for local transcription through Speaches, you can now use Whispering completely offline without any API keys.

But honestly, what you'll notice most is just how much smoother everything feels. The app responds the way you'd expect it to, without the weird delays or quirks from v6.

Open-Source Location Bookmark Manager

Is there an open-source location bookmark manager that can save locations and organize them into folders?

How do you manage your saved locations—do you use open-source software or run a solution in a Docker container?

I’m currently using Organic Maps, where I simply add locations to Favourites. However, I’m looking for something more advanced than just saving geolocations and names.

Some alternatives I’ve considered:

• I’m not sure whether Nextcloud provides this feature or not.

thanks a lot!

Lately, some KDE projects have seen a revival, like Karton (the native virtual machine manager for KDE) and the improved ISO Image Writer. Now, another abandoned KDE project, Plasma Bigscreen, is looking to return from the dead after long-time Plasma Mobile contributor Devin decided to spend a week overhauling the thing.

If you have not heard of it, Plasma Bigscreen is a Plasma shell for televisions, with original support for the now-defunct Mycroft AI assistant. It used to provide a simple launcher for apps and custom "Mycroft Skills" before development stalled, causing most distributions to drop it.

I'm looking for a good software I can use to turn nonfiction e-books into audiobooks. Doesn't have to accept pdf input, but that would be a convenient feature. Post inspired by Speechify, but I want to do it ethically. Free open source software, running on my own computer, not some datacenter in what used to be the Amazon. Clear speech quality is the most important metric to me beyond that, performance isn't much of an issue. I'd be happy with something I have to leave running in the background for a few days to get good results.

Fun fact: I tried looking for a community to put this question in dbzer0, because they love AI, and there wasn't one! I thought for sure they'd have some kind of general AI community where I could ask for a TTS recommendation, but no. It's literally just image generation over there. Thanks programming.dev.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/47966225

The update:

After months of hard work, we're thrilled to release the first beta for Lawnchair 15. This is a massive, foundational update based on Android 15.

The headline feature is one you've all been waiting for: App Drawer Folders! You can now create and reorder custom folders to organize your app drawer exactly how you want.

This release also includes a huge number of under-the-hood improvements, UI refinements, and new customization options.

Read the full story and see what's new on our blog: https://lawnchair.app/blog/lawnchair-15-beta-1

Download Lawnchair 15 Beta 1 from GitHub: https://github.com/LawnchairLauncher/lawnchair/releases/tag/v15.0.0-beta1

Thank you for your incredible support!

Jujutsu is essentially an alternative front-end to git, both magnificiently simplified and powerful.

I tried it after using Emacs Magit for about six or seven years, and jujutsu is really easier to use than git and useful if one wants a tidy public history of changes (with "tidy" and "public" as Linus Torvalds recommends). Plus it is fully compatible to git as backend - other contributors will not even note you are using it.

A new open-source Single Sign-On (SSO) provider designed to simplify user and access management.

Features:

• 🙋‍♂️ User Management
• 🌐 OpenID Connect (OIDC) Provider
• 🔀 Proxy ForwardAuth Domains
• 📧 User Registration and Invitations
• 🔑 Passkey Support
• 🔐 Secure Password Reset with Email Verification
• 🎨 Custom Branding Options

Screenshot of the login portal:

I had already posted this to a couple of selfhosting communities, but thought it may fit in opensource as well.

Self-hostable Wakatime alternative for code time tracking

I searched the whole internet for a good wakatime alternative that is open-source and doesn't have a bad UI while being lightweight and fast.

I was unable to find anything good so that's why I built Ziit a code time tracking software with a minimal and clean UI heavily inspired by Plausible Analytics because most people are already familiar with that UI.

I appreciate every star and welcome feedback or bug reports. https://github.com/0PandaDEV/Ziit

If you want to use it but don't want to self-host it, you can make an account on the public instance at https://ziit.app/