Hello @fastfinge and others, I added two new tools to /tools in the SpeechPlayer Repository. Let me know if these can help you: formant_trajectory.py — The Visualizer This is an accurate Python port of frame.cpp's FrameManager. python formant_trajectory.py --packs /path/to/packs --text "hello world" --voice en-gb --out trajectory.png --wav audio.wav python formant_trajectory.py --packs /path/to/packs --ipa "həˈləʊ" --out trajectory.png --show # Vowel space plot python formant_trajectory.py --packs /path/to/packs --text "beat bit bet bat bot" --vowel-space vowels.png frame_inspector.py — The Debugger For when you need to understand why a transition sounds wrong: # Dump a single phoneme's frame parameters python frame_inspector.py --packs /path/to/packs dump a
# Compare two phonemes side-by-side python frame_inspector.py --packs /path/to/packs compare a i --fade 10
# Trace the exact interpolation sample-by-sample python frame_inspector.py --packs /path/to/packs trace a i --duration 100 --fade 10 --out trace.png
# Find the most "violent" transitions in your phoneme set python frame_inspector.py --packs /path/to/packs grid --phonemes a e i o u p t k s --metric f2_rate
# Estimate consonant locus (for coarticulation tuning) python frame_inspector.py --packs /path/to/packs locus p --vowels a e i o u
The other day it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.
p.s. check my music out on bandcamp, link in my bio/below, (I'm an obscure indie musician with sod all money right now, and this joke post has gone a bit viral on here, so... :P)
I last did lap swimming in early 2020. I stopped when the pandemic started, and I didn't go back... Until today. I've wanted to for a while, and today, things worked out such that I was able to get a ride there and back. You guys, I think I went too hard. I aimed for 1000 yards, but wound up feeling good enough to go to 2000. Now everything from my mouth down is sore. Yes, my mouth. I forgot about all the mouth work involved in blocking and expelling water.
@miki Nope. I adjust my strokes a bit so my hand hits the wall first. So far, I haven't hit my head. I also change the angles of my hands so my fingers don't hit first. Counting strokes is a good idea. I know that after about 20 strokes, I should start bracing for the wall. No flip turns, just find the wall, reposition, and push off again.
One of the notable aspects of #Mastodon is that even when discussing highly controversial topics -- with rare exceptions -- it's possible to get up in the morning, check your replies, and see a completely civil discussion. Try that on most social media. Good luck.
The US has become fascist, and we Germans can say that... we have seen such surveillance methods being abused twice, in the past, with pen, paper and wiretapping. #Stasi #Gestapo #Thiel.
It's clear I'm going to have to modularize the frontend. As such, it will now do various passes for these rules and prosody changes. But I'm going to try and keep things sounding as they are unless new settings are turned on for people. Legacy Pitch will still work too don't worry.
hmm. My approach will be to increase the caNP value for the vowel when anticipatory nasalization is enabled and if a nasal consonant follows within the same word or syllable. This is interesting research.
reminds me of the time we had an AC failure in a part of the datacenter in dead of winter so we opened the doors ... and froze the hard drives in the first row of servers
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Would it be too much to ask if you could implement an automatic update system like WordPress has, which notifies you every time you update the CMS? In other words, we'd like a notification in our dashboard that a new version is available, and we could simply update with a single click, without having to go through tedious backup procedures, deletions, file downloads, needing an FTP client, etc. (especially since these are often minor updates). Thank you.
Finally found a thing mostly resembling what I imagine a web zine to be.
I want to create something similar.
The criteria:
⁃ pulished in issues ⁃ sequential editorial design resembling printed media ⁃ simple and robust web technology only, should be readable on 10+ years old devices ⁃ niche and independent af ⁃ delightful ⁃ downloadable/replicable ⁃ privacy respecting
It's also clear I need improvements for Geminate consonants which Hungarian uses, this is why Hungarian and some languages still sound off. these will be new rules. Sue Hertz made Eloquence with lots of rules. I must consider how her work was and read papers. What if we added: geminateClosureScale: 1.8 geminateReleaseScale: 0.9 # release stays normal
Disclaimer: None of this is written by AI, I’m still a real person writing my own blog like its 1999 I finally figured out how to do Gigabit Ethernet over my existing phone wires. Powerline adapter…
I went through this with a track I was writing for our last album- I had a guitar, vocal and drum machine demo. I thought “what would Tony Levin do?” And it didn’t work. Then I thought “What would Colin Mouding do?” and I was getting all wrapped up in the idea, and nothing came of it. The third thought was “What would Chris Vreeland do?” And the track flowed like water. It’s busy as fuck, but that’s me. 🙂
So, Perspective Intelligence is amazing! There are new vision features that are really amazing, and we now have web search thanks to @tayarndt The beta will be out soon. You will need All Access from the app Store version to try the web search beta though. All vision features will be free. I'd really love to see everyone’s feedback. #AI, #tech, #iOSDev
Well, you lose some, you win some. Yesterday morning our water froze. This morning at around 7:12 AM Central time our power went out, but thankfully we have a whole house generator so we're still good to go. Power's still out. At around 7:19 AM, the water thawed, so for at least right now, we have water again. Needless to say, many jugs and two-liter bottles are now full of water in case it freezes again which it almost certainly will.
Call me what you want but every time someone responds to some huge fascist attrocity with a lot of urgent action language, and their call to action is ... Call congress and ask them to impeach someone? I can't help but heave a heavy sign as I see people's time and energy being fucking wasted, while we should be forming emergency response networks on our residential blocks.
What's happening in Minnesota is an escalation of things that have happened in other cities - Chicago, Portland, LA, DC. It could be coming to your city next.
I don't say that to scare you. But it might be good to ask yourself:
If this was happening in my neighborhood, who would I reach out to? How would I take action? Who would I trust?
Start building those connections now. If you already have some, strengthen them.
Die #CD Kollektion wird neu gerippt. Diesmal nicht zu mp3 oder ogg, sondern zu flac 📀 Mag sein, dass das #Audio #Esoterik ist. Aber mit diesem Kopfhörerverstärker ein Genuss. 😊 #DOUKAUDIO
Stay away from the U.S. and its federal thugs. Do not come here for FIFA. Do not come here for the Olympics. Do not come here at all if you value your life and liberty.
Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ is a Grift on Global Scale
The absurdity of our times may best be summed up in the Trump regime’s brand new oxymoronic “Board of Peace.” ...
Unsurprisingly...Trump...appointed himself Chairman for Life. Permanent membership on the board requires an investment of 1 billion US dollars...
A “Board of Peace” created by a megalomaniac obsessed with imperial ambitions is the ultimate example of grift on a global scale. counterpunch.org/2026/01/22/tr…
The absurdity of our times may best be summed up in the Trump regime’s brand new oxymoronic “Board of Peace.” Established by Trump on January 15, 2026,
A little side project to provide the fediverse with information i've been missing and have had to rely on FB/IG on to get:
Concert and festival announcements.
A ton of this information is only available on these platforms or sometimes days later through other platforms, often resulting in missing your chance to buy tickets.
None of this is automated and mostly catered towards my own region (NL) and interests for now (Indie/Punk/Metal/Hardcore).
what if we just made more pixels, even if everything else like the color, the sky, even the hair is completely wrong
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