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Running Whisper AI for Real-Time Speech-to-Text on Linux

Tecmint - Tue, 03/04/2025 - 15:51
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Whisper AI is an advanced automatic speech recognition (ASR) model developed by OpenAI that can transcribe audio into text with

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Rust-Written Redox OS Expands Use Of Dynamic Linking

Phoronix - Tue, 03/04/2025 - 09:17
The Redox OS open-source operating system written from scratch in the Rust programming language is continuing to enjoy nice progress in 2025 on its goals. The Redox OS project has published their February 2025 status update that highlights achievements made over the past month...

How The Ubuntu Linux Performance Has Evolved For SiFive RISC-V Over The Last Four Years

Phoronix - Tue, 03/04/2025 - 02:18
SiFive recently sent over their new HiFive Premier P550 developer board and as part of that fresh RISC-V CPU testing I've also been re-testing the prior SiFive HiFive Unmatched developer board from 2020~2021 for reference. Out of curiosity, I've carried out some tests using the HiFive Unmatched to look at how the Ubuntu Linus RISC-V performance has evolved from Ubuntu 21.04 when I first tested that RISC-V quad-core developer board, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, and now the latest Ubuntu 24.04 LTS packages.

Godot 4.4 Open-Source Game Engine Released With Many Improvements

Phoronix - Tue, 03/04/2025 - 01:18
Godot 4.4 is out as stable today for serving as the newest feature release to this leading open-source, cross-platform 2D/3D game engine...

GNOME Mutter 48.rc Released With Wayland Color Management, Dynamic Triple Buffering

Phoronix - Tue, 03/04/2025 - 01:07
Ahead of the GNOME 48 stable release due out later this month, tagged now is the Mutter "48.rc" release candidate milestone. While the feature freeze passed last month, there has been a lot of last minute improvements merged for Mutter to squeeze into this GNOME 48 release...

Firefox 136 Available With AMD GPU Linux Video Acceleration, AArch64 Linux Binaries

Phoronix - Tue, 03/04/2025 - 00:46
Mozilla Firefox 136.0 release binaries are now available online ahead of tomorrow's official release announcement. Particularly on the Linux side, Firefox 136 is one of the more exciting updates in recent times...

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