Open Source @lemmy.ml ElPussyKangaroo @lemdro.id 1 yr. ago

This gives Google LESS access to your data! - YouTube

Android @lemdro.id ElPussyKangaroo @lemdro.id 1 yr. ago

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- Edit: @Melco@lemmy.world actually appears to be right, check my comments down below
  
  ~~> This fdroid repo version~~
  
  ~~How did you find it on F-Droid? What repos do you use?~~
  
  ~~> contains user tracking telemetry spyware as reported by exodus~~
  
  ~~Also, what you said there doesn't match the exodus report at all.~~
  
  ~~You might have confused something and looked at the wrong app.~~ ~~Please only stick to the official sources.~~ ~~The official website for Futo VoiceInput is https://voiceinput.futo.org/.~~ ~~The Git repository is located at (their selfhosted GitLab instance) https://gitlab.futo.org/alex/voiceinput. Currently, they don't have an F-Droid release.~~
  
  ~~I am not affiliated with Futo, I just want to prevent misunderstandings.~~
  
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  They mention they have an F-Droid repo on their website (that you linked): https://app.futo.org/fdroid/repo?fingerprint=39D47869D29CBFCE4691D9F7E6946A7B6D7E6FF4883497E6E675744ECDFA6D6D
  
  Maybe that's what the comment above meant?
Without having to watch that video..

What is a voice app?
- Speech to text.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

https://piped.video/UCGaKvZpJYc?si=SXknCynbr_7pakmC

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.
Love these kinds of projects. Recently been using this FOSS STT app on degoogled phone: https://github.com/ElishaAz/Sayboard (see releases for APKs)

Which has been great because I went years without STT.

This Futo looks promising with the punctuation. Now only if they publish to fdoid.
- I would like to see an F-Droid release as well, but in the mean time you can use Obtanium to pull the APK right from the Futo website.
  
  They have their own F-Droid repo listed on their website (https://voiceinput.futo.org):
  
  https://app.futo.org/fdroid/repo?fingerprint=39D47869D29CBFCE4691D9F7E6946A7B6D7E6FF4883497E6E675744ECDFA6D6D
  
  How? I couldn't get it to work.
- Wow! Thank you, this is awesome!
What is incredible about this product is that I can speak normally and fluently as I normally do.

The need to look at the output as you speak is only necessary if you expect there to be errors. FUTO, amazingly, performs extremely well in this regard and I have a high confidence in not being able to trip it up. I don't feel that I need to look down at a live transcription.

This whole comment was written using FUTO voice input. I'm definitely going to donate to them.
- This whole comment was written using FUTO voice input.
  
  Was the device owner involved?
  
  he was not, nobody cares about his 2 bytes
This is not free software. See license.

Subject to the terms of this license, we grant you a non-transferable, non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to access and use the code solely for the purposes of review, compilation and non-commercial distribution.
- In other words, I can't download the code, reskin it and sell "Bob's Voice to Text" for $1.29 on the play store. Seems reasonable to me.
  
  But, if I understand correctly, you cannot create your own fork and modify the code to improve it / alter features. Right? Then it's not FOSS.
The video title is definitely clickbait, but the app is actually really good.
- yeah, the clickbait title almost turned me off, but I did end up watching video. I'm not really into STT (or voice assistants in general), but the keyboard they are allegedly working on does sound pretty sweet and I would definitely be interested in that.
  
  Being that even if you go to their site https://futo.org there is no mention that I could see of this STT/voice input product, I wonder if I'll ever be able to find out about said keyboard, should it actually release. For reference, the direct link to the voice input site is https://voiceinput.futo.org
  
  edit: I also wanted to add that I was unaware of the saved recordings thing, which is horrifying, yet unsurprising... makes me glad I don't/didn't use STT... I think... maybe I should go check...
Does anyone know if it works with android auto?
Is this app only avaliable on Google play? Pass.
I don't believe that anything gives Google less access to my data.
- Why not? There are a lot of things that can help people to give less data to Google: ad blocker, Firefox, Firefox with Google container, avoid using Gmail, avoid using YouTube...
  
  Android?
  
  You can plug all those holes, but your data is still leaking. And wait until Googles new Web Integrity API is implemented. They have a thousand tentacles that are grabbing data. You can cut off a hundred of them, but it really doesn't make a difference.
- GrapheneOS is the open source android OS on pixel hardware without any google binary blobs.
  
  The advantage of using it is Google develops and optimizes the OS so it works on their hardware. The GrapheneOS project compiles the source code, hardens some parts, and boom
  
  Ah yes, binary binary large objects

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