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it's releasable for sure. But I don't wanna draft another release right after we made the last one. So, for the rest of you, these sliders will have to wait. For those of you willing to compile from Master, they are there for you now.
Speed quotient (voice gender): slider 100
Creakiness (laryngealization): slider 0
Breathiness: slider 0
Jitter (pitch variation): slider 0
Shimmer (amplitude variation): slider 0

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Have you ever tried to parse an 80 gigabyte JSON file?

That's a thing my team had to figure out when I, regrettably, worked for an American health insurance payor. This was as a direct result of malicious compliance on the part of other insurance companies, in reaction to attempts to use market-oriented regulation to improve healthcare costs in the American system.

Anyway, I can't recommend trying to handle 80 GB of JSON.

I also can't recommend market-oriented regulation of healthcare costs.

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I proposed an approach where #FOSDEM can provide better support for #accessibility

github.com/FOSDEM/website/issu…

I will try to demo it in my session later today, but speech to text isn't that hard to add in these days. We should be encouraging text transcripts.

@fosdem


Start supporting (or encouraging) the Speech to Text for sessions

We should explore adopting or integrating the MidCamp Live Captioning project as part of FOSDEM’s accessibility efforts. https://github.com/MidCamp/live-captioning?tab=readme-ov-file#live-captionin...
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#Accessibility #fosdem @FOSDEM

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From the Internet (not my words):

“The reason why RAM has become four times more expensive is that a huge amount of RAM that will be produced was promised to be paid with yet to exist money to be installed in GPUs that also have not yet been made, to place them in data centers that have not yet been built, powered by infrastructure that may never appear, to satisfy AI demand that does not actually exist to obtain mathematically impossible profit.”

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I would like the @fosdem community to embrace #accessibility

In effort of that goal I've started by recording some problems and possible solutions for the website:
github.com/FOSDEM/website/issu…

This is a lot of work that together, as a community, we need to address. #FOSDEM needs to be more inclusive for people with disabilities.

25% of the population has disabilities & the are part of our community.


We need to make FOSDEM more accessible

25% of the population has a disability. 100% of the population has temporary or situational barriers which needlessly stop them from accessing information on the web. The FOSDEM community isn't doi...
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#Accessibility #fosdem @FOSDEM

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A silly finding with NVDA Composer by @FreakyFwoof is that the more notes you enter, the slower it gets to process each one. I have no idea if this is deliberate, and wouldn't be surprised if it is, as I'm sure on some toys from days gone by this is a real thing as it keeps having to move more and more notes around to make room in memory for new notes. When playing real music this probably hardly matters, but in this example I'm deliberately keysmashing while in QWERTY and chromatic mode so what I'm composing is pure nonsense. Anyway I ended up entering 542 notes, and as you can see, at first it's really fast but then it gets slower and slower, and if I'd kept doing it, it'd get even slower. Note that I was banging on the keyboard fast during the whole recording. Unfortunately I do not have a project file or exported MIDI as I cleared the whole thing out immediately.

@Andre Louis
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Jayson Smith

Okay. Seriously. I know this is beyond what this addon is supposed to do. But I would love, love, love a program that would take a MIDI and render all the notes, not just monophonic notes, as that type of square wave. Bonus points if I could change the ADSR parameters of that square wave. Also, did you figure out how to create that type of square wave? I know it's not *really* a square wave in the scientific sense, but it doesn't have that annoying raspy/scratchy sound which as I understand it comes from aliasing, since a true square wave has harmonics going to infinity, whereas a wav file has to stop somewhere.
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It's fun that you can share projects with people just via pasting the clipboard as text. It gets rendered back into music at the other end. If you copy/paste the text below, you'll get a little Waltz thing I started.

NVDA_COMPOSER_CLIP v1
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Jayson Smith

Another thing I think it'd be cool to be able to generate from MIDI files are monotonic audio files, only one note is playing at a time, but where the real MIDI has multiple notes going, it rapidly switches between them. There was a DOS program from the mid to late 80's called Pianoman which actually did that, you could compose supposedly multi-voice music, but since almost no one had any kind of sound card at that time, all the program had to work with was the PC speaker which, unless complicated programming was used, could only play one note at a time. So it rapidly switched between the different notes, which had its own unique sound. I posted a few pieces from Pianoman sometime last Summer.
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