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I just tried out the new Supertonic TTS for 64-bit NVDA, and I was more impressed with it than I thought. It is a local neural TTS, with as of right now, 10 voices that are English only, , (five female, five male, four American and one British per gender), and my favorite is F3. What I find impressive is that when the speech quality control value is at its lowest, it still sounds decent, though due to the nature of neural TTS engines, just like Sonata, the longer the paragraph, the longer the delay.

HarfBuzz 12.3.0 is out, faster than ever:

- AAT shaping: 12% faster, LucidaGrande benchmark.
- OpenType shaping: 20% faster, NotoNastaliqUrdu benchmark.
- Drawing mega variable-fonts: 30% faster, GoogleSansFlex benchmark.
- Drawing VARC fonts: 5% faster, varc-hanzi benchmark.

github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/r…

Modular étude. Four random minor pentatonic sequences from Clank Chaos, one pinging the VCFQ filter fed into the Sarajewo BBD delay (low), and three into the oscillators of Three Body, tuned an octave apart in free mode, with modest FM and PM cross-modulation dialed in. Mixed and fed through the Desmodus Versio for reverb.

Was muss sich eurer Meinung nach im nächsten Jahr unbedingt jemand von uns anschauen? Welche Themen gehen bei uns und anderswo viel zu sehr unter? Was habt ihr euch schon immer gefragt?

Wenn ihr eure Fragen und Ideen teilen wollt: In den Kommentaren, per Mail oder in den nächsten Tagen bei einer Mate auf dem #39C3 netzpolitik.org/2025/kw-52-die…

#39c3

REAPER Made Easy's end of year wrap up starts at 3PM Eastern, 8PM UK
We've got a boat load of your productions cued up, an awesome spread of work done throughout 2025 to listen to! Starting at the top of the hour sharp.
TeamTalk details are at reaperteacher.com.
YouTube stream is here:
youtube.com/live/O3hz2uYfhIw?f…

See ya soon,

scott/Jen

Today, I redeemed a virtual gift card from my credit card rewards from the year, and donated the sum to:

- Wikipedia @wikipedia
- The GNOME Foundation @gnome
- The Internet Archive @internetarchive
- Servo @servo
- KDE @kde

I currently support #Drupal on a monthly basis

I'm also planning on supporting @elementary on a recurring basis in the new year

If you have a little bit of money at the end of the year, please consider supporting FOSS projects you use or appreciate! This is how we empower the next generation of open computing.

#giving #donations #FOSS

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Windows 11 Version 25H2 has a Major accessibility issue!
We need to spread the word because This is something that will effect blind people!
Send this video to Everyone you know!
youtube.com/watch?v=nGUuQSA_7n…

@Gianni@tweesecake.social @FrancisCole @mckensie @Winelectronic101 Dude, you just used AI to create that yourself, because no way in hell did you just come up with that yourself. And you, telling people they can't use AI models? Hypocrite! Oh, and they don't have to solve that if they don't want to. And you can't force them to. By the way, if I really, really wanted to, I could pull up ChatGPT right now and answer that problem. And since, of course, you stupidly didn't put the text version of that problem, it's gonna be hard for me to transcribe that speech. Which is exactly why I'm not gonna even try. Because you know why? It's also irrelevant and it just wastes people's time!
in reply to Timothy Wynn

If you wanted, you can just use the deprecated Windows Mail, except just as an NNTP client:
eightforums.com/threads/how-to…

I paused, out of breath. The Void had taken all my frustrated screaming and absorbed it.

"I'm sorry," I whispered. "You must have heard all this before, countless times."

'only you,' said the Void, 'scream your frustration like you do'

I took a deep breath to resume, then smiled.

"Thanks."

#microFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

Recently, I've found that random apps on iOS will open and be unusable. VO thinks there's nothing on the screen, except the status bar, and while the home gesture works, it lags. This just happened, and I double tapped a status bar item to jump to the top of the screen. VO said this: page -9223372036854775808 of 9223372036854775807

Did you know? Every year, the Supreme Court’s nine justices fill out a form that discloses their financial connections to companies and people.

Our database allows you to search for organizations and people that have paid them, reimbursed them for travel and given them gifts.
projects.propublica.org/suprem…

#Journalism #SCOTUS #Law #Ethics #Transparency #Research #Data