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Use ELAN to edit text transcribed with speech recognition models like Whisper

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ELAN is an extremely versatile annotation tool for text extracted from audio and video recordings. It provides several ways to view annotations, edit them, allowing multiple tiers, for different information, such as the text in one tier, and gestures by people in the source video in another tier.

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Extract audio from sound or video files with Whisper

With the general-purpose speech recognition model program Whisper you can convert sound to text. It even supports multiple languages.

This is how to install and use it on Debian, Ubuntu and similar Debian-based Operating Systems.

First, make sure that you have Python 3 installed

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Shrink PDF and make text searchable and copy-able with OCRmyPDF and Ghostscript

Create a copy of a PDF with searchable and copy-able text with OCRmyPDF. Specify language with for example -l dan. --sidecar outputs the text in a separate text file.

ocrmypdf inputpdf.pdf output.pdf --sidecar

Compress PDF with Ghostscript.

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Batch resize images in Libreoffice Writer with PicTool

Change multiple images in Writer with PicTool
Change multiple images in Writer with PicTool
Menu to batch resize images in Libreoffice Write with PicTool

You can batch update all images in a Writer (LibreOffice) document with the awesome PicTool extension: https://extensions.libreoffice.org/en/extensions/show/change-multiple-images-in-writer-pictool

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Thunderbird custom CSS via userContent.css

Thunderbird Custom CSS via userContent.css

You can tweak the Thunderbird CSS, just as you can in Firefox: https://munix.dk/override-style-web-site-firefox-usercontentcss.

You need to activate Developer Tools with these steps:

1. Open Preferences > Config Editor, and change these values:

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Install license free fonts in Ubuntu

Free font Open Sans

First find a good font licensed under a free license, such as the Apache License or the SIL OpenFont License: https://fontsarena.com/licenses-explained/

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Add search engine in Firefox

Add search engine in Firefox
Set search engine as default in Firefox

If you want to add a new search engine in Firefox, and it offers an OpenSearch search engine ("Add or remove a search engine in Firefox") you don't need an add-on.

It's as easy as typing the URL in the address bar and clicking the green + sign.

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How to unlock Cisco SPA122 ATA if 7932# returns "invalid option"

Cisco SPA122 ATA

If you can't enable browser access to a Cisco SPA122 ATA but get the reply "invalid option" after entering **** and then 7932#, even after factory reset, here is a workaround which works by temporarily swapping the network cables.

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Markdown editors

The Remarkable Markdown editor works well, available for both Linux and Windows: https://remarkableapp.github.io/

... or preview Markdown in browser with Grip: https://github.com/joeyespo/grip

To install:

sudo apt install grip
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Lower threshold for Low Disk Space warning in Debian and Ubuntu, for earlier alerts

Low Disk Space warning in Ubuntu

The Low Disk Space warning in Debian and Ubuntu is set at 95% and minimum 1 GB free space, which can sometimes be too late if space is running out.

If you would like to get a warning earlier, and more time to clear up space before everything crashes, open dconf and set these values.

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