Simple Eiffel - Speech

[Liberty Lover]

Hi All,

I was scanning over my YouTube feed and came upon some videos about video editing. I have a friend who does editing professionally. So, I wondered about making him some tools when the idea for text-2-speech transcription of audio/video files ... PLUS++ came up in my thinking.

The result is simple_speech and you can find the details of it here in this announcement. Before that happened, I was making some additions to simple_tui as you all already may know and be aware. 

Cheers,

Larry

[Liberty Lover]

The TL'DR version:

  Updated Summary: Today's Work (December 28, 2025)

  simple_speech v0.9.0-beta (5 commits)

  Status: Beta Release — Phases 0-7 Complete

  | Accomplishment      | Details                                                  |
  |---------------------|----------------------------------------------------------|
  | Full Pipeline       | Video → Audio → Whisper → Segments → Chapters → Embedded |
  | SPEECH_QUICK Facade | One-liner API for complete workflows                     |
  | Export Formats      | VTT, SRT, JSON, TXT + chapter exports                    |
  | Chapter Detection   | Gap analysis, keyword signals, configurable sensitivity  |
  | Metadata Embedding  | Captions + chapters embedded via FFMETADATA              |
  | Documentation       | README, docs/index.html, cookbook.html (13 recipes)      |
  | Tests               | 14 tests passing                                         |
  | Demos               | 5 demos built and verified                               |

  ---
  simple_tui (2 commits) — MAJOR FEATURE!

  ~4,000 lines added

  | Component             | Lines | Purpose                  |
  |-----------------------|-------|--------------------------|
  | TASK_MANAGER_APP      | 799   | Full task management TUI |
  | TUI_QUICK             | 476   | Fluent builder API       |
  | TUI_INPUT_DIALOG      | 767   | Multi-field dialogs      |
  | TASK_AI_ROUTER        | 489   | AI provider routing      |
  | TASK_PROMPT_TEMPLATES | 433   | Prompt engineering       |
  | TASK_AI_CONFIG        | 351   | AI configuration         |
  | TASK_BLOCK_RESOLUTION | 225   | Blocker resolution       |

  Features:
  - Task CRUD with priority, due dates, descriptions
  - Status workflow (pending → in_progress → waiting → completed → archived)
  - Context tagging (office, home, phone, errands)
  - Subtasks with parent/child relationships
  - AI Integration: Claude, Grok, Ollama support

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[Liberty Lover]

Both of these (simple_speech and the simple_tui Task App mock) are consuming and exercising existing simple_* libs. This is the eating-our-own-dogfood being applied.

While these are alpha (perhaps even beta-level) projects, they are now well-tested and exercised. If you are on Windows, you can get these projects and run the binaries. They'll work. I've already tried them myself.

What's next? Well, I am seriously considering putting Claude to work on putting an EiffelVision2 GUI in front of simple_speech and turning it into a usable bit of Windows desktop software that one can download and utilize for the stated purpose(s) of the lib. That'll be tomorrow, me thinks.

Cheers,

Larry