Why the developers of this Mac specific tool decided to put their documentation into an epub file when as it is currently there is no great way to read these efficiently on Mac is beyond me.
Yesterday I introduced a lady to the Paperback app. She works in local government and receives a huge number of PDF's every week. She was thrilled with it. paperback.dev/downloads/
I really, really wish this app were available for Mac. I've got an epub file here that I keep needing to refer to quite a bit and as it is now, I have to NVDA Remote into a Windows machine if I want to even remotely efficiently read the content. Ah well. One can dream.
Are you ready for a party? How about a Side Party? What? Well, SideParty version 0.82 is now released! What's new? Well, feast your eyes, hands, nose, and/or ears on this!
Add a new difficulty level, simply called, Nope! Figure this one out for yourselves! Muhahahaha!
In addition to this, upgrade to a vastly improved touch include from Aryan (@Aryan) which dramatically improves the gameplay on Android. Finally, add the ability to record your game sessions, thanks to NVGT's new soundsystem! Also, the usual bugfixes and junk. masonasons.itch.io/sideparty
MoltWorker seems interesting too. I don't think I'll run it with them, but it just made me even more interested in moltbot. This weekend I needa get my ass up and deploy it.
@FastSM One more suggestion. Currently if we press Enter on a post, FastSM will trigger the View post context menu. But, IMO, it would be better to dedicate another keyboard shortcut, like ALT+V, to it. The Enter key, instead, could open the URL in the post if it's the only URL. If several URLs exist, FastSM should display them in a list. As things stand right now, with FastSM viewing posts is easier than accessing/ opening links.
Ableton, if I do any. Used to use audacity but accessibility got worse, they're working on it though and I guess for very basic and quick stuff it can be enough, nothing crazy though. The typical audio blindie would probably say Reaper, but I haven't seen any Reaper tutorial that would speak to me personally, yes I know about Reaper access and all that stuff, so it's just too overwhelming and big for me. Goldwave is also there, and I guess a decent option, as I said I barely edit any audio currently though so....
A Blind Logic Pro teaching other blind musicians, producers, and mixers how to use Apple's DAW, Logic like a Pro! Click to read The Blind Logic Pro, by LogicBand, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.
What is the best way using NVDA to copy multi-line URLS, 3+ lines are more, using NVDA and the terminal? E.G. codex login on a Linux box that doesn't have a GUI browser.
Speech history speech recording, e.g. shift+NVDA+F11 to start, then do whatever produces the text to be spoken, shift+NVDA+F12, and you have it on your clipboard.
AI is making it dramatically easier to contribute to Open Source, but it is not making life easier for the small group of maintainers who still carry the responsibility for deciding what is good, safe, and worth merging.
We've built our own text-to-speech system with an initial English language model we trained ourselves with fully open source data. It will be added to our App Store soon and then included in GrapheneOS as a default enabled TTS backend once some more improvements are made to it.
We're going to build our own speech-to-text implementation to go along with this too. We're starting with an English model for both but we can add other languages which have high quality training data available. English and Mandarin have by far the most training data available.
Existing implementations of text-to-speech and speech-to-text didn't meet our functionality or usability requirements. We want at least very high quality, low latency and robust implementations of both for English included in the OS. It will help make GrapheneOS more accessible.
Our full time developer working on this already built their own Transcribro app for on-device speech-to-text available in the Accrescent app store. For GrapheneOS itself, we want actual open source implementations of these features rather than OpenAI's phony open source though.
Whisper is actually closed source. Open weights is another way of saying permissively licensed closed source. Our implementation of both text-to-speech and speech-to-text will be actual open source which means people can actually fork it and add/change/remove training data, etc.
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@Bernard We started working on this because Sherpa didn't meet our requirements including overly high latency making it unsuitable for blind users to use with TalkBack.
@tchambers It's not really platform specific. It currently runs on the CPU but we plan to add TPU support for Tensor and NPU support for Snapdragon in the future. It's made for GrapheneOS and we're not interested in doing any significant work on use outside of GrapheneOS. It will be possible to install it from our App Store on other Android 16+ operating systems but it's not our focus. We're focused on making GrapheneOS better and haven't gotten much out of making stuff available elsewhere.
Well, some times ago, open-source TTS was pretty lacking, but now Kaldi / Sherpa is pretty good, did you check it? If yes, what was the problem with it?
@breizh It wasn't quite good enough and has very high latency which makes it unsuitable for use with TalkBack. We're making this because existing options including Sherpa don't meet our requirements. Otherwise, we could have forked those. It made more sense to make our own instead which we'll be able to continue improving long term. It's similar to our network location and geocoding implementations where we want things done a particular way focused on high quality in all areas we care about.
@GrapheneOS I'm interested in having working open-source #TTS for Slovak language in the future. I my-self am not proficient enough to create my own high quality engine but I think I still might be helpfull. During all these years I've been contributing to eSpeak-ng slovak language support and recently with friends @ondrosik and @Zvonimir Stanecic we are contributing to #RHVoice. Thus I will be watching the development of your TTS engine to find out if it can be trained using a homelab setup and if adding support for the language is something I might be able to help with. Thank you for this news and all the hard work you've put into it.
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Oh quirky and learned Mastodonians, I come before you with a dream. Funded by the Canada Counsel for the Arts, Iām researching Friedrich Dulon and Maria Theresia Von Paradis, both 18th century European musicians renowned in their time, and both Blind. Iām looking for info about a German translator and writer of the time, Pfeffel, who was also Blind. Iād love to find some of his fables in English. Dulon met and admired him, and Leopold Kozeluch created a secular cantata for Maria Theresia von Paradis, setting Pfeffel's German text ("Ich war ein kleines WĆ¼rmchen") to music. If anyone who likes digging and is multi-lingual could uncover this piece of music or his fables in any form accessible to an English speaker, Iād love to be able to incorporate it into story writing, storytelling, or even singing. As a Blind person myself I'm really interested in bringing their work to life for a modern audience, but I'm mono-lingual, and a terrible researcher. Please boost for reach.
Just received the document checklist for my immigration process, along with a myriad of questions for me, my husband, and the two of us together. One of the questions is asking for photos of our wedding celebrations... a minimum of 20 photos, all put in a Word doc. In addition, we're supposed to put some information *in* the photos... I have absolutely no clue how to do this. Talk about a freaking nightmare. I knew it was going to be, but just how much of one, I had no clue. I'm just... so overwhelmed right now. I'm hoping our consultant will be able to help us with some of this. It'd be sooooooo nice to just answer all these questions over the phone and have somebody else put in all the relevant information.
On Tuesday night, I successfully defended my #PhD thesis on #dataset #documentation as a leverage point for better speech technologies at #ANU #Cybernetics! š
I have some minor corrections and then I will officially be a #PhD. It's been a long six years!
#TIL that you can work with multiple branches in #Git simultaneously via 'git worktree'. I think this will certainly help make #Tenacity maintenance much easier as I won't have to keep switching between different branches and perform virtually an entire rebuild between the latest stable and development branches. This way, I could more easily test two branches in parallel.
I think this will make Tenacity maintenance MUCH easier! I'm very excited to see how this will improve my workflow too! š
As ICE terrorizes communities, crypto executives who spent years posting about freedom have gone conspicuously silent. But behind the scenes, theyāve contributed at least $315 million ā more than double their record 2024 spending ā to elect more lawmakers to enable this administration.
As masked agents execute people and terrorize communities, crypto executives who spent years posting about freedom fall conspicuously silent ā except when writing checks for the politicians enabling it
NYT - President Trump has been presented in recent days with an expanded list of potential military options against Iran aimed at doing further damage to the countryās nuclear and missile facilities or weakening Iranās supreme leader. nytimes.com/2026/01/29/us/trumā¦
I'm just about to finish a really comprehensive book on the origins and execution of the Iranian revolution in 1970s. The book is call "The King of Kings". The book is amazing and tells you so much about Iran, its political culture, much of which is probably gone by now, but also about the US...
Computer MIDI Keyboard (CMK) for Mac has just been updated to 0.2. Add the ability to add custom controller properties like the Windows version, via a new setting in the settings dialog. Add setting favorite properties, to match the windows version, f5/f8 to jump to favorite, shift f5/f8 to set a favorite. Increase maximum pitch bend/modulation speed. masonasons.me/softs/CMK.dmg
Trying something new for me: geeking out over a piece of music from my teenage years, with an audio commentary. Yes, a Christian pop song. This is the inspirational anthem "We Belong to Him" by Wayne Watson, from his 1988 album _The Fine Line_. This one's been taking up space in my head for a while. Here I dissect the music, comment on the lyrics from my current perspective as a non-believer, and ultimately show my appreciation for a well-executed musical formula. mwcampbell.us/audio/we-belong-ā¦
And that's several more people added to restricted mode on fb today. And several channels I left. I-used to join channels as a way to receive inspirational messages. It was a great way to keep my mind from getting too restless. But now, they're just space hoggers given my constant DM traffic. Someone tried adding me to yet another random group chat today, and I got a notification today: Someone you've restricted is in this chat. There were two choices. Stay or leave. I hit the leave button. Another guy tried to hijack my time via iMessage, and I was like, as I said, I'm taking time for myself. So, I'm going to excuse myself and do that! Jesus! Boundary setting as a cute popular girl in 2026 takes a certain level of composure. *deep sigh*
And not by telling them to paste shit in a Terminal! Or telling them to switch distros. Or guessing because youāre on a different distro and donāt know the answer. Or asking fucking ChatGPT. Contributing noise is of negative value
:blobcatbusiness: What's the most common complaint I've heard about Linux?
**Not** the installation process.
**Not** finding a distro.
**Not** getting programs to work.
**Not** troubleshooting.
**Not** hardware compatibility.
sadly enough, I personally know of 2 young people that recently switched to Linux and that prefer to ask ChatGPT or Gemini about Linux stuff because "I don't get assaulted with RTFM or judged for my distro of choice"
Just installed @delta and was under the impression that it was email based. I expected to have to put in some email credentials and use my local email server. But instead it created a disconnected profile and just uses IMAP as a transport?
What is Delta Chat? Delta Chat is a reliable, decentralized and secure instant messaging app, available for mobile and desktop platforms. Instant creation of private chat profiles with secure and i...
@tizianomattei There are already more relays, chatmail.at/relays lists some of them. This page is reachable through the "Use other server" option during profile creation. At the end of the page there is a link to chatmail.at/doc/relay/ with the documentation on setting up your own relay. You can also use any IMAP+SMTP server, especially if you already have one, but be aware of rate limits and spam filters, and you likely don't want to reuse your existing mailbox for chatting.
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I'm listening to some music through my Sennheiser 380 headphones, rather than AirPods. There are some songs I've been really liking lately, so much so that I purchased them. These headphones really highlight how odd these songs sound--harsh highs, not a lot of balance. Is this modern mixing, or have I been tricked by more AI music? It could also be that I'm now so used to AirPods/Shokz that my old headphones just sound odd to me.
@MewProjects hey, I noticed one small bug in the Fast Play UI. When adding favorites to the radio stations, the view is not updated automatically. You have to open the radio tab again, to see the new added favorites.
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