This gives Google LESS access to your data!
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👉 FUTO Voice play store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.futo.voiceinput👉 FUTO Voice website: https://voiceinput.futo.org/👉 FUTO Voice s...
  • Moonrise2473@feddit.itEnglish
    281·
    1 year ago

    I’m not watching a video for something that can be 3 lines of text.

    I’m supposing this is some speech to text? It’s completely on device? If it’s not on device, i don’t see many difference between giving data to google and giving the same exact data to somebody else.

  • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
    201·
    1 year ago

    Section 4: Termination, suspension and variation

    We may suspend, terminate or vary the terms of this license and any access to the code at any time, without notice, for any reason or no reason, in respect of any licensee, group of licensees or all licensees including as may be applicable any sub-licensees.

    The license isn’t exactly giving me warm fuzzies, the source is available, but it isn’t GPL.

    https://gitlab.futo.org/alex/voiceinput/-/blob/master/FTL_LICENSE.md?ref_type=heads

    Reading through their license, it appears that people may only distribute the code, and the binaries non-commercially. There’s nothing in there allowing people to modify in the distribute the modification. But I’m not a law talking person so maybe I got that wrong

    • smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      7·
      1 year ago

      Oh no :(. Another cool project being ruined by trying to invent it’s own licence.

      If they want to not make it free of price, they could make payments for model download or just do a paywall screen. Most people would prefer to pay some bucks for not having to compile app themselfs or having to get it from shady sources.

  • Cris@lemm.eeEnglish
    19·
    1 year ago

    I’m using it to type this comment and I REALLY like it! But I will say it tries to do punctuation for me, and that drives me nuts.

    (Video is about an open source voice to text, input method for Android, by the way.)

      • Cris@lemm.eeEnglish
        11·
        1 year ago

        Futo Voice Input, and there are links in the post ☺️ Weirdly, it doesn’t seem to be on Fdroid (yet?), but you can install it as an APK from their website.

        • SatyrSack@lemmy.oneEnglish
          6·
          1 year ago

          I’m going with yet. They do mention an F-Droid build on GitLab.

          There are four build flavors:

          • dev - for development, includes Play Store billing and all payment methods, auto-update, etc
          • playStore - Play Store build, does not include auto-update and only includes Play Store billing
          • standalone - does not include Play Store billing library, includes auto-update
          • fDroid - does not include Play Store billing nor auto-update
          • Cris@lemm.eeEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            Gotcha. I missed that on their GitLab page, Thank you for pointing it out to me!

  • speck@kbin.social
    7·
    1 year ago

    I figure if I lurk here someone will come along and breakdown whether this is legit to install or not

    • ElPussyKangaroo@lemdro.idOPEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I tried it on my device… Works great!

      But it’s just a Voice to Text utility at the moment, so only where there’s a mic icon for said VTT applications. But they’re working on integration with open source keyboards and also suggested the possibility that they’d make one of their own keyboards.

        • darklordcrouton@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          From reading other posts it sounds like it is only for crash reporting and that the user has to click to provide the report in the event of a crash. It also appears to be documented in their policy docs so it’s not exactly like it’s anything underhanded.

          If the user doesn’t trust that their data will be safe, couldn’t the domain attached to the tracker found by Classyshark be blocked using something like NextDNS or RethinkDNS to prevent any data from connecting to said domain?