updates.bigb

= Updates

This section contains the a list of cool things <Ciro Santilli> has been up to in chronological order, including small quick ones. Many/most of those are also posted on <Ciro Santilli>'s <accounts> such as:
* https://twitter.com/cirosantilli
* https://mastodon.social/@CiroSantilli

For a a more theme-oriented version of the best results see: <articles>{full}.

For <OurBigBook Project> updates see: https://docs.ourbigbook.com/news

Update list:
* https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/256138/is-there-any-decent-speech-recognition-software-for-linux/613392#613392 cool to see that the Vosk open source speech recognition software by https://twitter.com/alphacep now has a convenient command line interface called vosk-transcriber! 

  It allows you to just:

  ``
  vosk-transcriber -m ~/var/lib/vosk/vosk-model-en-us-0.22 -i in.ogg -o out.srt -t srt
  ``

  to extract a subtitle file out.srt from a .ogg audio input file.

  Accuracy is a bit meh, but we'll take it!

  Posted at:
  * https://mastodon.social/@cirosantilli/112317205707461869
  * https://twitter.com/cirosantilli/status/1782535572143140900
  * https://askubuntu.com/questions/161515/speech-recognition-app-to-convert-mp3-voice-to-text/423849#423849
* https://video.stackexchange.com/questions/33531/how-to-remove-background-from-video-without-green-screen-on-the-command-line/37392#37392 tested this AI video background remover https://github.com/nadermx/backgroundremover by @nadermx. It had a few glitches, but I had fun.

  \Image[https://ia600306.us.archive.org/10/items/ciro-santilli-selfie-in-cycling-kit-with-old-cottages-background-removal/Ciro_Santilli_selfie_in_cycling_kit_with_old_cottages_background_removal.gif]

  https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/233832/merge-two-video-clips-into-one-placing-them-next-to-each-other/774936#774936 I then learned how to stack videos side-by-side with ffmpeg to create this side-by-side demo. It also works for GIFs! https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30927367/imagemagick-making-2-gifs-into-side-by-side-gifs-using-im-convert/78361093#78361093

  \Image[https://web.archive.org/web/20240422123110im_/https://i.stack.imgur.com/gkJnK.gif]

  Posted at:
  * https://twitter.com/cirosantilli/status/1781994384805822684
  * https://mastodon.social/@cirosantilli/112308748237095260
  * https://www.facebook.com/cirosantilli/posts/pfbid02SqbYcRBvVkfivXmqmWJ1cc1KjEkbZyC8EXkBqgzZisgFPcXdADEXzrKCucWJn8uQl
  * https://archive.org/details/ciro-santilli-selfie-in-cycling-kit-with-old-cottages-background-removal
* Just found out that <Ciro Santilli's hardware/P14s>[my Lenovo ThinkPad P14s] has an infrared camera, and recorded a quick test video on <Ubuntu 23.10> with:
  ``
  fmpeg -y -f v4l2 -framerate 30 -video_size 640x360 -input_format gray -i /dev/video2 -c copy out.mkv
  ``
  * https://mastodon.social/@cirosantilli/112261675634568209
  * https://twitter.com/cirosantilli/status/1778981935257116767
  * https://www.facebook.com/cirosantilli/posts/pfbid027M3n2p8snE9otAWdHtJ3ig2AhrXoDGv4h68o1z8agHceQBbFHZpEoxg7KZbiWAgWl
  * https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7184755892410576897/
  * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1ZeR6pmf6o
  * https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Infrared_video_of_Ciro_Santilli_waving_recorded_on_Lenovo_ThinkPad_P14s_with_FFmpeg_6.0_on_Ubuntu_23.10.webm
  \Image[https://web.archive.org/web/20240413030921if_/https://i.sstatic.net/c5KbD2gY.gif]
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= Sponsor updates
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Previously, updates were being done with more focus to <sponsor>[sponsors] in the format of the child sections to this section. That format is now retired in favor of the more direct <updates> format.

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