8mo ago

Transcribro: Private and on-device speech recognition keyboard and service for Android.

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Private and on-device speech recognition keyboard and service for Android. - soupslurpr/Transcribro

Hi everyone this is my first post on here. I saw my other app called BeauTyXT posted here so I wondered why not post my newest app here.

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7mo ago

Transcribro: On-device Accurate Speech-to-text

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Thanks for making this but some screenshots or a walkthough would be nice. Also any plans to publish it on f-droid?
- There! I added a screenshot of the keyboard UI at the bottom of the README.md. There isn't really anything else to screenshot other than maybe the ACTION_RECOGNIZE_SPEECH activity but it's basically the same but floating and with only the mic button.
- Screenshots would be nice I suppose, yeah. A walkthrough/instructions are sort of included in the app in the Start screen, at least enough to get stuff enabled. I think the keyboard UI is pretty easy to understand, and the buttons are large and there is no wasted space which is nice for accessibility. At this time there aren't any plans to publish it on F-Droid. However, Accrescent is the recommended way to get it as Accrescent provides automatic updates (which can be turned off if you'd prefer) and has higher security than GitHub and F-Droid. It's available on GitHub releases too.

Can someone enlighten me oabout the specifics of the accrescent.app appstore?
I guess it's somewhat like Obtanium in that it fetches releases packed by the original developers, just plus an index, metadata and signing, thus more convenient and secure? I guess it's open-source and everything? What are the unique benefits?
- I checked it out. This appstore has like 8 apps from which the majority is made by this developer. I wouldn't even be surprised if he's not trying to promote his app but the appstore instead. I'd not trust this store.
  
  Please don't spread baseless claims. The majority of the apps on Accrescent as of writing are not made by me. Only 3 out of the 12 apps are. I have already stated if you don't want to get my app from Accrescent, then you don't have to. There are apk files released on GitHub releases, which the download section of the README.md talks about.
  
  Thanks.
- Have you read their FAQ at https://accrescent.app/faq ?
  
  Sure. There isn't any paragraph on how it compares to other appstores or why the author started the project in the first place despite several other stores being available.
  So I'm looking for the selling point. (Aside from your App being available there.)

Do you plan to support other languages too?
- Yes, please use GitHub's "Issues" tab and you'll see an entry has been made to support multiple languages.
  For now, it is English only.

I want to try this out, but it's not on FDroid or Izzy
- You can still get the apk on GitHub releases if you don't want to use Accrescent. Also you can use Obtanium to get automatic updates for many apps from different sources, including GitHub.
  
  I'll give it a try!
- for real, like it's weird that it's on such a small app store without branching out to the other larger ones, it makes me think something else nefarious is going on. Not that it actually is but that's the look that it gives with something like this lol It's on my radar but I'm going to give it a bit before trying just in case

Very cool, and +1 for accrescent, although an fdroid or izzy release would be nice. How does it compare to sayboard? https://github.com/ElishaAz/Sayboard
- Thanks, an F-Droid or IzzyOnDroid release isn't planned at the moment. Sayboard uses the Vosk model and because of that it can have almost real time transcription. It also has a punctuation keyboard integrated within. But Transcribro has better accuracy, punctuation, and capitalization as it uses OpenAI's Whisper model. While Transcribro isn't real time, it will compute very fast after it stops detecting speech (which takes a few seconds due to not wanting to stop early) or press the mic toggle to stop it yourself. On shorter stuff on my Pixel 7 it can take less than two seconds. There are many more differences and I'd suggest trying it out yourself to see exactly.
  
  I'm not downloading yet another appstore just to get this app. There are a billion field-tested stores out there. Starting with the GPlaystore. It's beyond me why the customer is not allowed to freely choose where to get it. I already have 3 appstores on my phone. I'm not getting a forth one.
- Yet another appstore... I just want to get the app. I don't care about what stupid repository the developer prefers. This is getting out of hand. Definitely not downloading another appstore just to get this app.
  
  Hi, you don't need to download another app store to get Transcribro. Accrescent is not required, just recommended (because of its security properties and optional auto updates). If you read the download section, it clearly states that Transcribro is also available on GitHub releases. You could use something like Obtanium if you want to get it from GitHub releases with auto updates, or just install the apk. You don't have to use any app store 😄

It's available on Accrescent btw

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