Celebrate when I remember to use words and phrases

Using whisper.el to convert speech to text and save it to the currently clocked task in Org Mode or elsewhere

"jump (word-with-the-starting-letter)"

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(learn-lang-tts-gtts-say "Bonjour, comment ça va ? On fait quoi aujourd'hui ?") (learn-lang-tts-gtts-say "Pourvu que ça soit acceptable.")

https://mastodon.social/@cks/117322231468097911

2026-09-28 Emacs news https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqV_l5lry00

https://github.com/ahyatt/llm/blob/decision/llm-typesafe.el https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1ws60sw/llm_package_support_for_jev_layastyle_quick/

I want to make it easier to start a YouTube livestream.

• "let's get ready" / "prepare for takeoff"
  • set up the theme and the variables
  • set the title and description from the subtree
  • open the control panel
  • switch to the right OBS profile
  • open the dashboard
• TODO: Pop the chat out
• "let's go live"
  • start streaming with a speech command

▶️ base ▶️ no effects ▶️ just noise reduction ▶️ gate effect, no noise reduction ▶️ gate effect, filter ▶️ lowered volume of microphone ▶️ even further! ▶️ too much reduction ▶️ increased slightly ▶️ testing

Pendant que je faisais à vélo, je voudrais pratiquer mon expression orale. J'ai eu l'idée à générer des audios à partir des expressions ou des mots que je veux mémoriser. Si je génère des fichiers qui comprennent un carillon, l'expression ou le mot, et une attendue de silence qui est une fois et moitié de la durée de l'original, je peux écouter l'expression la première fois, le répéter dans le silence, donc dire simultanément à la troisième fois.

Nous nous sommes dépêchés ce matin, donc j'ai généré un script avec l'aide de l'IA qui utilise la synthèse vocale afin de créer des audios à partir de ma liste des phrases et des mots. Ça m'a aidée beaucoup parce que pendant que je faisais a vélo, je peux les écouter et les répéter. Il valait la peine, donc maintenant je voudrais réimplémenter la fonction vers Emacs Lisp moi-même.

(defun sacha-learn-lang-say-repeat-with-pause (s num-times multiple filename &optional force)
  (setq s (learn-lang-subed-record-simplify s))
  (when (file-directory-p filename)
    (setq filename (expand-file-name (concat (learn-lang-slugify s) ".mp3") filename)))
  (unless (and (not force) (file-exists-p filename)) 
    (let ((temp-file (concat (make-temp-name "learn-lang") ".mp3"))
          duration-ms
          args)
      (learn-lang-tts-say s nil temp-file)
      (setq duration-ms (compile-media-get-file-duration-ms temp-file))
      (setq args (list "-i"
                       temp-file
                       "-filter_complex"
                       (format "sine=f=800:d=0.250,afade=t=out:st=0.150:d=0.100[chime];anullsrc=r=44100:cl=stereo:d=0.100[gap];anullsrc=r=44100:cl=stereo:d=%.3f[silence];[chime][gap][0:a][silence]concat=n=4:v=0:a=1[unit];[unit]aloop=loop=%d:size=2e9[out]"
                               (* multiple duration-ms 0.001)
                               (1- num-times))
                       "-y"
                       "-map"
                       "[out]"
                       filename))
      (with-current-buffer (get-buffer-create "*ffmpeg*")
        (insert (mapconcat #'shell-quote-argument args " ") "\n")
        (apply #'call-process learn-lang-ffmpeg-command
                      nil t nil
                      args))
      (delete-file temp-file)
      filename)))

;; (sacha-learn-lang-say-repeat-with-pause "Il n'y a pas une baguette magique." 3 1.5 "~/sync/music/french/orale/" t)
;;;###autoload
(defun sacha-learn-lang-say-lines-as-files (input-file num-times multiple output-directory)
  "Say each line in INPUT-FILE as an MP3 in OUTPUT-DIRECTORY."
  (interactive)
  (with-temp-buffer
    (insert-file-contents input-file)
    (dolist (s (split-string (string-trim (buffer-string)) "\n"))
      (let* ((s (learn-lang-subed-record-simplify s))
             (filename (expand-file-name (learn-lang-slugify s output-directory))))
        (sacha-learn-lang-say-repeat-with-pause s num-times multiple filename)))))

sacha-learn-lang-say-lines-as-files

• learn-lang-tts-say

In which I work on Emacs News

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In which I work on Emacs News

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In which I respond to React to Sacha and Prot Newbies and Starter Kits Emacs Video - YouTube which responds to YE24: Sacha and Prot Talk Emacs - Newbies/Starter Kits (am I doing this right?)

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Just chilling out while editing the transcript from

Yay Emacs 33: Sacha and Prot Talk Emacs: Built-ins

##yayemacs on libera.

2026-05-25 Emacs news

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Just hanging out and working on Emacs News

shapr@recurse.social - @sacha Is your org flow written up somewhere?

Like, how you organize your files and how information gets in and out?

and, since I felt a bit cringe about using C-s, how do you find information in your org files?

Emacs Chat 21: Amin Bandali

Mode for streaming

• Is there a way to make headings (ex: Org Babel result block, custom link output)? I'd love it if the headings could get picked up by TOC. Org Babel block reevaluation ends up with duplicates if the result has headings.

Upcoming episodes

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• Now I can have shortcuts like delete-other-windows-vertically
• Emacs News
• my Emacs configuration
• bug-hunter: Ooh, pierre-rouleau/elisp-bug-hunter has my header/footer code and some new fixes, let me try that
• probably should put together the which-key-display-prefix patch
• sachac/learn-lang: Some tools for learning languages with Emacs - Codeberg.org
• sachac/speech-input: Experimenting with a speech-based interface for Emacs - Codeberg.org

• Boom?
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• Shock mount?
  • Auphonix Shock Mount For Blue Yeti Microphone?

so that it lets me select the link and prompt for the summary right away

Move the functionality of emacs-news-summarize-mastodon-items into it

file:///usr/local/share/emacs/31.0.50/etc/themes/newcomers-presets-theme.el

Also yayemacs.com/news and emacslife.com/news

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