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I have to give @Tamasg for making the initial version of the FlexVoice 3 NVDA addon! I like it, and there is another version of that synth you can try and make an addon for, it is version 2. I believe according to a sample I heard, that I kind of like the intonation of version 2 more than version 3, and it contains other .trv files for the voices. Now you kind of know why I've been waiting for this TTS to speak my own text for so long (it has been about a year since Rommix found it), it is one of the most unique speech synths, and that's what I'm looking for! Anyway, here's the .zip of FlexVoice 2 for anyone who is interested:
Today's #FreeSoftwareAdvent is paperless-ngx, a key part of keeping us, well, paperless.
It is a document management tool, but I use it in a very basic way: it is hooked up to our scanner, and anything we scan gets automatically converted to PDF and OCRd. We then shred the paper. I try to scan, and shred, everything on the day that it arrives.
It is particularly useful around tax return time, as it means I can easily get the information I need from stuff which people have posted to us.
Well well. It's very unlikely Monolog95 or Monolog97 will ever get a driver or wrapper. Thing is, voice font data and other speech DLLs were scattered across the system, including in \windows\speech, making integrating a simple portable wrapper solution quite impossible as it looks for them in these hardcoded areas, including registry keys. Both do this, after extensive debugging, Monolog95 is somewhat better but still Voicefont data stays in program files. In short, not an easy one, unlike Flexvoice where I could package it up nicely into one synth for everyone to quickly have. Sigh.
It doesn't matter anyway. The voice I'd want was only ever part of Monolog16, not Monolog 32-bit variants. With Monolog 95 and 97, you already get a different voice. So I wouldn't be working on one I'd actually want or use, either.
It doesn't matter anyway. The voice I'd want was only ever part of Monolog16, not Monolog 32-bit variants. With Monolog 95 and 97, you already get a different voice. So I wouldn't be working on one I'd actually want or use, either.
on the bright side, I'm less sad about my Braille display! Used some sandpaper to smoothen out the scratch (they were just 2 little dots where it got slightly nicked), and now, the scratch is virtually undetectable. So yes. Sandpaper does work on plastic to at least smoothen down scratches and get them to be good again. I was surprised to find this out.
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I am surprised noone has tried porting or making a voice of the braille n-speak2000 yet.
Someone please xplain to me why Conversations and Monocles costs money in Google Play and not in F-Droid.
Is it because of the Google fee to keep an account? Wasn't that a one-off thing?
I'm genuinely curious since I paid that fee a decade ago to put a shitty (yet useful) app there that I made with MIT App Inventor back in 2016.
The F-Droid version has some features that Play store policy prevents us from putting in (address book integration, channel search). The Play version has features that F-Droid policy prevents us from putting in (FCM push notifications).
That’s orthogonal to it being paid or not though.
If it were up to me i'd probably make the F-Droid version paid as well but F-Droid doesn’t have a billing system.
Tech CEOs: Workers MUST be present in the office. The job simply can not be done remotely.
Also Tech CEOs: Most workers can be replaced by AI. Hosted remotely.
Wrt my last boost, it is saying something when the NFB and the ACB agree on something and are on the same side!
But, seriously, hopefully there is less feuding between the two blindness organizations than there had been in the past. Hardly anyone alive would have been around for the original split that created the ACB, and some of the reasons for it are not relevant anymore. I would like it if we don't have hostility between the organizations and if they can work together where they agree.
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For my part, I can say that my issues with the #NFB don’t have anything to do with what happened back in the late 50s. Rather, it’s something more recent. I don’t necessarily have animosity toward the organization in general, I was actually a member for a time about seven years ago, it has to do with the organization’s response, or lack thereof, dealing with the sexual misconduct allegations in the training centers.
ACB is speaking out in response to recent federal action that limits how the Randolph-Sheppard Act’s blind vendor priority is applied to Army dining facility contracts. This change threatens economic opportunity and independence for people who are blind or have low vision.
Read our press release: acb.org/american-council-blind…
Something that is missing, @MonaApp for Blue Sky/the atproto protocol. There is an iOS app named Skeets, but it is only half-heartedly accessible, and some crutial things don't work, like reading the source of who reposted a post etc. And it doesn't work at all well on the Mac.
@pixelate If you contact the developer, they are willing to help fix those things. I ran out of time to report the Accessibility issues, but when I did report them, they were fixed very quickly. This is with Skeets by the way.
I took a closer look at this new Beyerdynamic headset. The only question I still have is: is Bluetooth 6 comparable to old 2.4 GHz dongles in terms of latency? Has anyone had any experience with this? I'd be grateful for any insights.
europe.beyerdynamic.com/p/mmx-…
#bluetooth #wireless #headset #latency #tech
europe.beyerdynamic.com/p/mmx-…
#bluetooth #wireless #headset #latency #tech
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At the top of the hour, I will be ready begin my annual Christmas Eve show with Robin on HKC @radio. This show being one of the most exciting for me each year, we're on until 1 PM, where a me from yesterday will take you up to 8 PM where Robin and I will be back to count down to Christmas
Hello! Tuned in! I love the fact that this has become a tradition, to listen to you every year.
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