bug#72827: [PATCH] Adds NSSpeechRecognitionUsageDescription to Info.plist.in

[Po Lu via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>]

Alvaro Ramirez <alvaro@xenodium.com> writes:

> Hi folks,
>
> Here's a tiny patch to add NSSpeechRecognitionUsageDescription to
> Info.plist.in.
>
> Without NSSpeechRecognitionUsageDescription, we cannot launch
> processes that use macOS's speech recognition APIs (including built-in
> shells).
>
> Here's an eshell example:
>
> $ macosrec --speech-to-text --input /tmp/audio.mp3
>  abort trap: 6
>
> With NSSpeechRecognitionUsageDescription in place, macOS displays a
> dialog asking users to grant permission and allows the speech APIs to
> be used from the process.
>
> Added change to Emacs 31 NEWS. If there's any chance the permission
> can make it to 30, I'd be happy to rework the patch as needed.
>
> Cheers,

What speech recognition services exist on Free (GNU/Linux) systems, and
do they require like intervention on our part to function in Emacs?