plasmoid

Dictee Plasmoid — KDE Plasma 6 Widget

A real-time audio visualizer widget for Dictee, the voice dictation system.

Features

• Real-time microphone visualization during recording
• 5 animation styles with per-style sensitivity
• Rainbow color gradient option
• Noise gate for clean silence
• Configurable via KDE System Settings
• French translation included

Animation Styles

Style	Preview	Description
Bars		Vertical bars with Hanning envelope
Wave		Sinusoidal wave with fill option
Pulse		Concentric pulsating rings
Dots		Bouncing dots
Waveform		Symmetric centered bars

Rainbow Mode

All styles support rainbow colors with configurable hue range:

Installation

kpackagetool6 -t Plasma/Applet -i package/

Configuration

Right-click the widget → Configure:

• Polling interval — daemon status check frequency
• Noise gate — threshold below which audio is zeroed
• Calibrate — record silence to calibrate background noise
• Animation style — choose from 5 styles
• Rainbow colors — enable with start/end hue
• Per-style settings — sensitivity, bar count, spacing, etc.

Dependencies

• KDE Plasma 6
• dictee and transcribe-daemon
• Python 3 + NumPy (for audio analysis)
• PulseAudio/PipeWire (microphone access)

Structure

package/
├── metadata.json
└── contents/
    ├── config/
    │   ├── config.qml
    │   └── main.xml
    ├── locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/
    │   └── plasma_applet_com.github.rcspam.dictee.mo
    └── ui/
        ├── main.qml
        ├── CompactRepresentation.qml
        ├── FullRepresentation.qml
        ├── configGeneral.qml
        └── animations/
            ├── BarsAnimation.qml
            ├── WaveAnimation.qml
            ├── PulseAnimation.qml
            ├── DotsAnimation.qml
            └── WaveformAnimation.qml