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For 11025 Hz, we kept the original symmetric cosine glottal waveform because the new LF-inspired one sounded "constrained" / "like a small cell phone speaker" at low sample rates.
At higher sample rates (16000+), use asymmetric LF-inspired glottal waveform
with sharp closure (sharpness=3.0) for richer harmonics and "grainier" Eloquence-like
character.
This is based on the Liljencrants-Fant (LF) glottal model from 1985 - the same research that informed Klatt88 and likely Eloquence's DSP!
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@GrapheneOS
You can add another app to your list of apps banning GrapheneOS: The AGOV access app from the swiss federal authorities (play.google.com/store/apps/det…)

AGOV access - Apps on Google Play

Access key to e-government services of the Swiss authorities
play.google.com
@GrapheneOS

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My latest at ZDNET:

"No one running a so-called Home edition of Windows should be forced to manually edit the registry or run PowerShell scripts to manage updates or turn off features they don't want to use. Those users shouldn't have their files moved to OneDrive without their informed consent. If they choose an alternative browser or search engine, that choice should be respected."

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Windows 11 has 1 billion users - and they're furious

Hitting 1 billion monthly active users should be cause for celebration in Redmond. These days, though, it feels like every one of those users is complaining. Does Microsoft have what it takes to address the many pain points in Windows 11?
Ed Bott (ZDNET)

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Systemic white supremacy is when an utterly incompetent 23-year-old white boy can fabricate an entire story about Somalis and get personal praise from the President—but two seasoned award winning Black journalists who have decades of unassailable reporting behind them get arrested for reporting on an actual protest with facts and receipts.

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I've made getting to both the web and iOS versions of my Fast Weather app easier. Just visit FastWeather.online to use the web version or use the Try iOS link at the bottom of the page to join the iOS Test Flight and get the program. Table view on the web is a favorite of mine for quickly browsing temperatures in either my set of cities or the prepopulated lists of cities for a state or country. Change the view to table, pick a state and use screen reader table commands to quickly read.

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I need 1 good person to get me out of here please get me out of here. JUST ONE.😭

Stuck with one diagnosed #narcissist/#psychopath but others are the same. I don’t want to die here.

Help please.!!!!!🙏

#MECFS
#SevereME
#LongCovid
#ChronicPain
#Hypothyroidism
#Endometriosis
#Abuse
#NarcissisticAbuse
#Neglect
#FDV
#DV
#MutualAid #MutualAidRequest

#MutualAid #LongCovid #NarcissisticAbuse #mecfs #chronicpain #MutualAidRequest #abuse #SevereME #narcissist #hypothyroidism #endometriosis #neglect #fdv #dv

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A person just walked by in sturdy shoes, a face mask, and a backpack with a protest sign sticking up out of the back. They walked with purpose and resolve (heading toward the nearby transit station to get downtown, I assume), and it was all I could do not to run out and thank them for protesting.

Thanks again, a million times over, to everyone out there showing up, on behalf of those of us who can't do that right now. 💜

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Undiagnosed neuro-divergence is like playing a video game on the hardest settings, whilst everyone else is gaslighting you by saying it's on the easy mode.

When you are diagnosed (even self diagnosed) it's like realising you are on the hard setting, it doesn't make the game any easier... But you know you're going to struggle and can find ways to work around the problems to better suit your abilities.

#neurodivergent

#neurodivergent

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trying to find a local radio station threw fastplay isn't working. if I could figure how how to listen to it in say winamp, I could save it as an m3u file and use fastplay to listen to it that way, but searching for it isn't working. if anyone wants to help me figure out how to find them, it is Power 96.5 WQHH.
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I do love going through job application submissions where 700 candidates replied with the exact same sentence on one of the entry questions.

Using AI tools to email blast all job postings doesn't increase your chances, it makes you look lazy and doesn't make your resume stand out.

The mediocrity machine is so good at giving you the illusion of efficiency

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Australia is BURNING

Tuesday’s temperatures reached record-breaking levels in Victoria—49°C—forcing more than 1,000 people to evacuate due to extreme fire danger and leaving thousands of animals without food, water, shelter, or safety. The situation is also dire in New South Wales, with catastrophic temperatures forecast to hit wildlife hard, especially flying foxes whose population is decimated.

You will probably hear nothing about this on the news, but it's happening

#ClimateChange

#climatechange

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Reminder: tomorrow we're back in the saddle, with premium REAPER prattle.

Join Scott and Jenny K for I'm Perplexed, what's next? Saturday at 3PM Eastern, 8PM UK. It's a Q&A session covering all things REAPER, OSARA and accessible production. As usual, we'll be making sure questions from newcomers slip to the front of the queue.

Details are at reaperteacher.com.

If you're able to help cover the time we put in to running these meet-ups, here is where to top up the kitty.
paypal.me/TGVTraining

See ya there,

Scott


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I got into an almost-argument and I need advice and/or guidance from you dorks (affectionate).

Some doop on Reddit says he rips his CDs into flac files. I said the only thing that flacs increase in this regard is file size; not quality. He insists they sound better as flacs.

So, I ripped two CDs on my l33t h8xor Linux PC. 192kbps mp3s, and flacs. I genuinely could not tell the difference on any of my headphones, including the planar magnetic supernerd audiogasm cans. And I mean it: Zero difference.

Have I fallen into confirmation bias, or is there a real difference?

#AskFedi #Audiophile #FileFormats

#askfedi #audiophile #fileformats
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This is a damning article from the Wikipedia editors on GenAI articles written for Wikipedia: wikiedu.org/blog/2026/01/29/ge…

#ai

Far more insidious, however, was something else we discovered: More than two-thirds of these articles failed verification. That means the article contained a plausible-sounding sentence, cited to a real, relevant-sounding source. But when you read the source it’s cited to, the information on Wikipedia does not exist in that specific source. When a claim fails verification, it’s impossible to tell whether the information is true or not. For most of the articles Pangram flagged as written by GenAI, nearly every cited sentence in the article failed verification.

Generative AI and Wikipedia editing: What we learned in 2025

Like many organizations, Wiki Education has grappled with generative AI, its impacts, opportunities, and threats, for several years. As an organization that runs large-scale programs to bring new e…
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