New NVSpeech Player build for NVDA:
Mostly language tuning. Words like "square", "fair", "bear" get proper US and UK pronunciations. Protein, Fourteen get a slight tweak, though not perfect. Some of this is just on Espeak being used for IPA and phonemizing. We also fixed it so that the "google / able" rule doesn't bleed into words like real. Overall, no phoneme changes from last night. People were not super overly mad at them getting a slight softening. At 16000, it sounds really good to me, and less sharp. At 22050, that's your own damn problem. Formant synthesizers lose their bandwidths at higher sample rates because they simply cannot fill it all in and compress their voice in an equally filling way across all frequencies. It's a thing with all of them. Eloquence at 22K? I'm realizing, not the greatest. So if you're using it at that and think, "oh now it's too soft", at least it also doesn't sound like it does at 44100 when it's at 22050, so you should really be thankful instead. Just saying. Besides, we only really changed like 17 phonemes to get this effect, it's not like all of them got a rewrite.
eurpod.com/synths/nvSpeechPlay…
Mostly language tuning. Words like "square", "fair", "bear" get proper US and UK pronunciations. Protein, Fourteen get a slight tweak, though not perfect. Some of this is just on Espeak being used for IPA and phonemizing. We also fixed it so that the "google / able" rule doesn't bleed into words like real. Overall, no phoneme changes from last night. People were not super overly mad at them getting a slight softening. At 16000, it sounds really good to me, and less sharp. At 22050, that's your own damn problem. Formant synthesizers lose their bandwidths at higher sample rates because they simply cannot fill it all in and compress their voice in an equally filling way across all frequencies. It's a thing with all of them. Eloquence at 22K? I'm realizing, not the greatest. So if you're using it at that and think, "oh now it's too soft", at least it also doesn't sound like it does at 44100 when it's at 22050, so you should really be thankful instead. Just saying. Besides, we only really changed like 17 phonemes to get this effect, it's not like all of them got a rewrite.
eurpod.com/synths/nvSpeechPlay…
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in reply to Tuta • • •SearXNG and Mojeek are worth a look, but I default back to StartPage and Quant.
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in reply to Tuta • • •Using DDG and Qwant too.
Depending on the mood
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in reply to Tuta • • •The hard part is finding search engines that aren't implementing AI summaries or chat features.
I started with DDG, then moved to Ecosia then Start Page. All of them have AI chat and summary features.
For the moment I'm on Search For Trees since it has a similar mission to Ecosia but they donate more to tree projects.
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in reply to Tuta • • •perfect 81 % of tuta user use US search engine,
DDG (Microsoft server), Brave (Amazon server), Startpage (Amazon server), Ecosia.org (Cloudflare server), Kagi (Google Cloud server)
Only mojeek (UK) and qwant (FR) are not US so avoid those US crap.
@Mojeek @Qwant #duckduckgo #brave @StartpageSearch @ecosia @kagihq #eu #sovereinty
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