@jaybird110127 "I apologise for the confusion. Here are the steps to run xCodebuild for you. Find an apple dealership near by and buy a mac. Then run xcodebuild." @Bri
The Neural voice included in recent versions of Narrator are currently only available to Narrator. We'd be happy to make them available but that is up to Microsoft to open them up at this point.
With other "neural" voices, there are a couple like Sonata and Hear 2 Read on our extra voices page, depending on what you are after: github.com/nvaccess/nvda/wiki/ā¦.
Aha found the culpret, it's in default.yaml. Hmm. This is really good to know then, it's not the changed phonemes, yay. I might set some of the default values more conservative or off to solve it. (corrected add-on re-uploaded now, yay!)
Condo boards suck! If you ever get asked, or told to join such boards, run far far away! The currently elected board just accused the previous board for not attending the meetings, when it was the president that wouldn't sign anything, or miss many meetings. I have evidence, so I will share the minutes with the Facebook group... and then walk away. Because, I never missed a meeting... ever. It's so petty, considering what is happening in the world, but it still makes me sad.
Yes, very. It's funny because everyone usually says democracy works well at small, local scales. Well... no. People can be so petty as well, about the most pointless shit.
Me, to claude just now, verbatim. Check the Windows sourcecode. Check the Windows sourcecode. Check the windows sourcecode for implementation. Check the Windows sourcecode.
OK, I'll make this promise: If I can't fix that darn "when" issue by the end of the evening, I'll re-upload the V16 add-on with the older pack's phonemes and upload the new ones as an packs-tuned.zip file people can try. I mostly got positive feedback, but I must handle this carefully without changing the sound of sounds too much. It's mostly good but we have some outlyers.
Well, as I tune phonemes I am watching Season 4 of Traitors UK. Guess it's a good thing it came out. Ugh I'm not a reality TV person but the challenges do fascinate me that people get through. And just how two-faced they can be, although the moment it turns into alliances and who created what drama, I tune it all out. LOL.
I haven't seen this copypasta on fedi yet. tbh it sounds like if he was in school this century he'd have been a school shooter, yikes
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I live in Minneapolis but grew up in the quiet mountain town of Boone, NC, with a pathetic squat toad named Gregory Bovino. Heās grown up to be the pathetic Nazi toad in charge of ICE, and has come to my beautiful city to terrorize, torture, and murder my friends and neighbors. He is personally going door to door, so hereās some background on him and some things you can say if you see him to get under his skin.
His father used to run a bar called The Library Club in neighboring Blowing Rock. While driving drunk one night, his dad hit and killed a woman with his car. The ensuing financial problems forced him to sell his bar and ultimately caused his parentsā divorce. Greg will be sensitive about that so be sure to name drop āThe Library Club.ā
āYou're the reason your dad got loaded and killed JANIE MAE MITCHELL with his car, resulting in your parentās divorce. You're the reason they split up!ā
"Your history teacher, GI Jones, thinks you're a pathetic Nazi punk. No wonder you failed all his classes!ā
āRemember when Mast General Store banned you for sniffing shoes after people tried them on?ā
"Remember when Mr. Combs found you jerking off in the Watauga High bathroom?ā
"Remember eating the Pioneer wrestling team's soggy biscuit? Is it gay to eat semen off a Bojangles biscuit or was that just an 80s thing?"
"Remember when your swimsuit fell off at Trash Can falls and everyone laughed at your micro penis?ā
āDoes your democrat Mom say sheās ashamed of or just disappointed in you at Thanksgiving?ā
Ahaha OK. Diffing the phonemes now to figure out why the word "when" is now being said more like "one." This will probably get fixed this evening before I tune anything else, that's why I can diff the phoneme files and find exactly what got over-changed to create that. Good catch, people.
@MewProjects In FastPlay I have a YouTube Data key When I do searches, the searches return results. When I press enter to play a search result, I get an error retreaving URL. I've tried with a few different keys.
@FastSM, I cannot use this on Linux. I installed everything, and when I run it wants python-espeak. The problem with python-espeak is that it requires espeak to be installed, not espeak-ng. Most distros now use espeak-ng. Am I doing something wrong on my end?
Heya Grace, you're failing to mention me on any account. But I've not tested the app on Linux. I think the issue is with the accessible_output2 package. You could try to run the app without that package for now. It might still work without it
Someone told me that Speechplayer reminds them of Mac OS Fred on Windows which I thought was amusing. I can kind of see it. But Mac OS Fred to my knowledge was diphone-based rules, not quite the same as it is here either, although perhaps the default neutral "Adam" voice could really remind people of Fred at the higher sample rate.
@jscholes haha, guess the only good thing about Speechplayer too is that it doesn't slur at high speech rates quite like Fred. Maybe that's why I like it though, not everyone does especially Fred, but it sort of reminds me of the time before they really broke Fred, in the Mac OS Tiger days. I've wanted to run an emulator of Tiger with sound just to have it, maybe now I won't really have to once I tune this further xD
So it's clear to me that a lot of sharpness on consonants came from the original phoneme tuning table, once I made the tools that identify spikes and corners inside phonemes it was a lot easier to target one and reduce it or spread the bandwidths out without really altering the sound's identity, just softening it. It's just countless moments of "oh no, words like fishing now sound like shishing gosh what happened."
New NVSpeech Update where I tried to rework the phonemes so they sound less sharp especially at sample rates above 11025, and probably failed. Everyone will hate it. But let's see. eurpod.com/synths/nvSpeechPlayā¦ Letters like "F" sound less like "clentched teeth" and I do think personally that it has made a difference, but all of this has taught me that everyone's ears are different and someone who thinks a sound is clentched teeth another will think it's not. So Sigh. New settings added. Graduated Coarticulation, boundary smoothing between sounds, and Enable formant trajectory rate limiting. All of these have edit fields to customize, and they are all off by default. If you hate the new phoneme table, you can always get V15 (change the link) and still have it. I might get a revolt after this one.
I'm starting to actually get to a point where this sounds OK to me. There are still some weird phaser sounding things it does noticed most on vowels, but it's getting there!
@Bri I think that's related to the formant bandwidths, from what I remember with my experimentation of old speech player. CB1 especially. Makes it sound like it's talking into a can.
@mckensie yeah, I think so too. I still use it day to day, but mostly to be able to make targeted changes, like with this consonant softening project. But I had to target consonants group by group which is why we still have some sharp corners on words like it's, let's and rates. Sigh. It's a tricky balance between making the sounds overly-lispy, which is bad bad, but not making them so sharp that they stick out from within vowels especially above 11025 hZ. I actually think 16000 sounds perfect now beyond that one consonant, 22050 will probably always be more of a no for me, but I do know some people who have dampened hearing where that high of a sample rate helps them. So there's a lot of human variation to account for and balancing in.
@FediTips Hi, a basic Mastodon question please: Can a Mastodon client retrieve more than 40 posts per API call? Also, is there a limit of previous posts I can get? I'm trying to find why I cannot get posts older than approximately one week.
Some power providers say it may be weeks before electricity is restored to parts of Mississippi. Meanwhile, Gov. Tate Reeves is deploying the Mississippi National Guard to help with logistics and getting emergency supplies to parts of the state hardest hit. mississippitoday.org/2026/01/2ā¦
I think ICE has got lots of hang-arounds and do-nothings. Perhaps they could do something useful for at least some Americans? They also have a lot of money, with 50k bonuses and such.
@Npars01 To be fair, it's about any kind of supremacy, not just white. Since the beginning of the Earth those in power, no matter the color, always exploited the less fortunate ones or the ones that ended up in circumstances of not being in power. Etc.
heads up ArcaneChat content creators and channel owners!
your broadcast channel is already epic, it is #decentralized, end-to-end #encrypted, and independent of a central server, this is already quite rare! but it will be getting even more awesome! ššš
in the next version of #ArcaneChat you will be able to easily see the number of views your posts have in your channel!
and stay tuned for even more cool stuff in the future! š¤Æ
I think I'm prone to over-thinking/over-analyzing potential life choices sometimes. Maybe I could do A, and then X can happen, or I could instead do B, and then Y can happen, but it is hard to know exactly how the future will play out, and, ultimately, either choice would be okay. It isn't good to act without thinking, but going to the other extreme can also be detrimental.
"A dildo rolled across the pavement like a wounded soldier while tear gas fogged the street. Someone picked one up and held it aloft like a freedom torch while coughing their lungs out." A must read.
hello. in my mastodon & sharkey instances, i can extend the range of hashtagged posts available from other servers by also following several @relay.fedi.buzz tags, eg
relay.fedi.buzz works with Friendica as well. Since this is a relay server, the admin has to follow these accounts from the command line: bin/console relay add .....
@Michael šŗš¦ oh wow, that's great news, thx. š¤ [albeit also somewhat inconvenient in that any time i wish to add any new relay.fedi.buzz accounts i have to involve my instance-admin, rather than simply do it myself like in my sharkey & masto accounts]
Here's my #FOSDEM advice. Go. Enjoy. Don't worry. You are among friendly geeks and nerds who will happily help when needed. Enjoy the fries. The waffles. The presentations. The beer. The booths. Collect stickers. Buy the t-shirt. Is all :)
@mreichelt If you can get into them. Honestly, there have been fosdems I've gone hungry because food was unobtanium.
I won't be going this time, because I'm already to virused-up-cruddy, but my advice would be: * bring food, bring drink, * have pals you want to meet and go into brussels early after you've done the hallway track * don't try to attend any talk or dev room
Oh, and protect your shoes from projectile vomiting when going to Solbosch using public transport.
lol - I feel this will be a very different conference experience than I'm used to! I never was at FOSDEM, so this will be a first for me. I'd be happy to chat with you when we meet there!
I think one thing I like about Lofi, is that you can experiment. Plus, you donāt have to quantize. You can have slight drags on your drums, or your base. As long as itās on the right tempo, you can mess around. Slap some vinyl preset on there, and boom.
Well, seeing as its been paid for, I can officially say that I will soon be the proud owner of a BTSpeak! So excited! Was looking forward to the upcoming tutorial/demos by @liamerven, but now that interest is more than peaked!
For FOSDEM first-timers, it's good to wear the shoes that work best for a lot of standing and walking and can handle rain and some puddles (depending on the weather). These might not be the best looking shoes you have (or they might be) it just needs to be something that once you put on you won't have to think about until you take them off, which will probably be hours and hours later. I am bringing two pairs with very different weights and support styles to switch between.
Darn, that's a lot of icons still. Despite me thinking I'd hate mac, I now only have the default apps on my dock, which kinda serves like the desktop, but mostly for stuff that's opened. Thought I'd go back to my windows habits of like, way too many icons, but nope, I guess I just stuck with the whole arrangement. Just removed a few unnecessary apps I didn't need and that was it, then kept a few I can actually open via the dock and stuck with it, so now it's that thing I am just used to. Also, nothing beats a windows refresh, to be fair. Except a super fresh windows install, to cleanup the registry only to fill it up back again. :D
Tonight...it almost didn't happen, but the Digital Domain with @nick and Bob is also known as the 'Bring on the Snow' show! How was Snowpocalypse 2026 for you?
Also, predicting the grammies and listener submissions that fall into the category of WTF?
So. EV is on the horizon. Looking at EV chargers... Immediately, it is surprising to me how many CURSED things the manufacturers suggest doing.
Take this - Running EV Ultra cable (3 x 6mm + a 4 twisted pair data cable inside one armoured jacket)? Use a pair for your CT connection and two pairs for Fast Ethernet!
Also interesting to discuss the safety concerns of having exposed, fragile, solid copper data wires inside that enclosure, right next to those chonkin EV charger contacts at 230VAC... That Ethernet cable probably heads off into a comms rack where people are going to be handling the ends of cables, terminating, crimping, etc... without imagining that the other end is <2cm away from live contacts with zero isolation.
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