The XMPP Standards Foundation (XSF) is exited to announce the 28th XMPP Summit taking place in Brussels, Belgium next year - just before FOSDEM 2026. The XSF invites everyone interested in development of the XMPP protocol to attend, and discuss all …
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this is an incredible analog in more ways than one.
From how it’s mined, to how it was marketed as a wonder material, to how it is used as cheap filler, to how it’s impossible to get rid of safely, to how it’s deeply damaging to people’s health and wellbeing.
It's like we took the worst aspects of environmental harm brought to us by cryptocoins and instead of making fake internet money evaporate, we made people huff it like leaded gas fumes in an enclosed garage.
Eloquence “Sandy/Bobby” also talk differently: micro pitch movement, timing, and energy. You can get 80% of the timbre without it, but the last 20% “personhood” often comes from prosody. We will never get that 20%. I'm crushed. This project will always be, "it's missing that last mile."
Apparently, we are supposed to get between five and 8 inches of snow here in Central North Carolina over the weekend. Problem is, I have places to be and things to do, and this place shuts down at the slightest provocation. It's only just now kind of sort of opening up again after the last storm. Never mind, I guess.
Edit: Got the answer I wanted and made my decision. Thanks.
Question for #blind people who use refreshable #Braille displays routinely: Does anyone run brltty on Windows? NVDA has the option to use brltty, but NVDA's default plug-and-play drivers don't use it. JAWS doesn't use brltty. Narrator does. So does anyone actually use Narrator's Braille feature, or otherwise use brltty on Windows?
Trying to gauge the usefulness and reliability of brltty on Windows specifically.
I used NVDA’s BRLTTY support a few times for testing my BRLAPI server for the Monarch before the Monarch got a Braille terminal, but otherwise I always use NVDA’s native Braille display drivers. I did test out BRLTTY on the terminal as well, but I found that it did not support the new Windows terminal, or at least the only console window displayed was the window BRLTTY was running in. That could have been a configuration issue on my end though. Also NVDA’s BRLTTY driver has very limited support for Braille commands.
Sigh. When you change the sample rate, the driver recreates the SpeechPlayer instance (because it needs a new sample rate), but it doesn't reapply the voicing tone to the new instance. Fixing it next update. Sorry y'all. This tilt thing took forever to solve so I rushed it a bit.
@clv1 hmm. most IPA can be left unquoted in YAML, and quoting is mostly about avoiding YAML’s "special meanings." You should quote an IPA string if any of these are true: It contains # (YAML comment marker) e.g. a# must be quoted or everything after # is treated as a comment. It contains : (colon + space.) YAML treats that as a key/value separator. It starts with characters YAML uses for structure, like -, ?, :, [, ], {, }, &, *, !, |, > (This one depends on context, but quoting avoids surprises.)
I can change these to all be quoted though in that file for consistency, probably not a bad idea. Sometimes I've hand-edited and maybe left out a quote on some of them so it's good to make that the same.
Thanks for the explanation. The thing is that the phoneme editor leaves many of them unquoted. I found it by comparing pt-br.yaml in my current installation, which I've edited, versus pt-br.yaml in your last add-on package.
What is your favorite tilt setting per voice? Let me know, and we can tweak it to be a default, if people think "adam" is too boomy, we can now change this. Will consider replies by end of day.
I learned recently that Didier Spaier, maintainer of the blind-friendly Slint distribution based on Slackware, passed away. May he rest in peace, and may his loved ones find comfort in the memory of all the good he did for the B/VI community.
The speechPlayer.dll now exports additional functions for real-time control of the voice source characteristics. These allow callers to adjust the "voicing tone" — the spectral shape and character of the glottal pulse — without modifying individual frames. • speechPlayer_setVoicingTone(handle, VoicingTone*) — Apply a new voicing tone configuration. • speechPlayer_getVoicingTone(handle, VoicingTone*) — Retrieve the current voicing tone settings. • speechPlayer_hasVoicingToneSupport(handle) — Check if the DLL supports voicing tone control (for backward compatibility). VoicingTone struct: voicingPeakPos double 0.85–0.95 Glottal pulse peak position. Lower values create a more pressed/tense voice quality; higher values voicedPreEmphA double 0.0–0.97 Pre-emphasis filter coefficient. Higher values boost high frequencies before formant filtering. voicedPreEmphMix double 0.0–1.0 Mix between original and pre-emphasized signal. 0.0 = no pre-emphasis, 1.0 = full pre-emphasis. highShelfGainDb -12 to +12 High-shelf EQ gain in dB. Positive values brighten the output; negative values darken it. highShelfFcHz double 500–8000 High-shelf corner frequency in Hz. Controls where the shelf boost/cut begins. highShelfQ double 0.3–2.0 High-shelf Q factor. Higher values create a more resonant shelf transition. voicedTiltDbPerOct double -24 to +24 Spectral tilt in dB/octave. Negative values create a brighter sound (less natural roll-off); positive values create a darker, more muffled sound.
We just tried out our collaborative text-editor Reflection on a smartphone using @postmarketOS and are a bit blown away by how cool that was. All it took was to install it via the Flathub store.
Is software ever done? When I started writing this I assumed the answer was yes, but by the time I finished, I'm not sure anything is ever done (not just software)
I posted a graph on LinkedIn. It showed that of the 10 million open source projects tracked by ecosyste.ms, more than half haven’t been updated in two years.
NVSpeech Player with phoneme editor and NVDA Addon version 1.8.5 Update from this link, or the updater in the add-on. I must run to work stuff. No more speechplayer until the evening. This release adds proper tilt control to the NVDA driver. No changes to phoneme editor, no time before work. Only changes to the speech player exports, and the driver, and packs to improve the R sound. github.com/tgeczy/NVSpeechPlay…
This is the first time I'm using this add-on with NVDA as one of its voices. I like the 44100 Hz sample rate! However, at least in this release I'm noticing that with the US English default voice, the k sound actually sounds like the t sound, either individually or as part of words. For instance, comma sounds like taama, and combo sounds like taambo. Any chance of improving this?
@amir yeah that's interesting, it's almost like the edge of the "K" gets too sharpened into a "T" at that high of a sample rate. It sounds more fine at 16000 or 22050 even, but it sort of, over-emphasizes certain consonats a bit more turning them into other letters.
Maybe I'm mad or something - LOL, but it also sounds like someone who suffers from a disease called Cleft Lip and Palate. I sometimes have difficulty understanding what it says.
@amir I think I can add a frication lowpass only when SR is high, that'll definitely help itabove 16000. I think it sounds best at either 11025 or 16000, then things just lose shape beyond it, but the wave generator isn't tuning that for different sample rates yet.
Yo, so I've finally checked this out, and wanna say great work on this man. It really has potential, happy to see there is also german in the languages, I'm still trying to think of good words to describe whhat I'd love to be improved with the voices, but let me try around with it a bit more first. Well done, don't burn yourself out or down talk your work. If you need a break, take it, noone wwill judge you. But nice progress.
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