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Altbot™ Roadmap: What's Coming in 2025
Hello Fediverse friends! I'm Micr0, the creator of Altbot™ - a Fediverse bot that helps make social media more accessible by automatically generating alt-text descriptions for images and videos for people with visual impairments.
I wanted to share my exciting development plans in the coming months. Your feedback and support have been incredible, and I'm working hard to make Altbot™ even more helpful for everyone.
Version 2.1.2 - Coming Soon!
- More Languages: Adding language support without message translations
- Better Reminders: Making the system more helpful and less intrusive
- Help Documentation: Creating a GitHub wiki with resources on using Altbot™ effectively
Version 2.2 - Audio Understanding
- Local Speech Recognition: Integrating a local model like Whisper to process speech in audio and videos
- Enhanced Media Understanding: Providing audio transcripts to the Ovis model alongside video frames for more comprehensive alt-text
Version 2.3 - Fediverse Integration
I'm thrilled to announce my first official partnerships with Fediverse instances! I'll be developing an API with direct integrations into Fediverse software, starting with:
- Chuckya (mastodon) integration for fuzzies.wtf and wetdry.world
- Sharkey (misskey) integration with plasmatrap.com
These integrations will make alt-text generation seamless for users on these instances, with more partnerships planned in the future. And anyone will be able to host their own Altbot™ for their instance as well of course :)
The speed of these releases depends on several factors: my personal motivation, support from the community, and my workload. Your encouragement, feedback, and Ko-fi support [ko-fi.com] all help keep this project moving forward!
What features are you most excited about? Let me know your thoughts and suggestions below!
@helical@plasmatrap.com@micr0@wetdry.world No way plasmatrap direct integration 
This is so cool :3
@micr0 so the use case I've fallen into with altbot is posting an image, waiting for it to reply, then editing any mistakes with that description and pasting it into the alt text. it would be neat if I could set the bot to DM the description to me instead of a public reply, so people don't see the unedited one
love the bot, thanks for the work!
@miakizz it's public for transparency! but if you dm the image to the bot it should reply with an alt-text, (doesn't work with every instance due to federation and auto-mod)