Is there a way to recommend integrating AI package such as VoxType into KDE?
You’ll probably have to be more specific what VoxType is (a quick search found two VoxTypes that didn’t seem to be related to each other) and how you want to integrate it into KDE. You will also find many of us are not super enthused about AI.
VoxType is off the net, and local Voice-to-text AI transcriber. https://voxtype.io/
Integrating into KDE means adding support into a Text Editor, Kate, Writer, etc using a push to voice record and return the transcribed text
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It could be implemented as an input method (IME) and works in any desktop. (I don’t get why it’s implemented as a virtual keyboard instead.) So what special integration it needs with the Plasma desktop, let alone specific apps like Kate?
Simply no to AI in KDE. Simply No to AI period.
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Not a bad idea unless you have another virtual keyboard already in use.
It will “type” (as the name suggests) so anything that can understand keyboard events will be a valid receiver.
Could be a desktop application, could be a game or a console application running in a terminal.
If you created something like that as an external device then doing it as a USB “keyboard” would likely give the best compatibility.
Edit: apparently they are working on additional Plasma support upstream already