I do wonder if folks liked it when the voice was smoother at 16000/22050 or 44100, or when it now has more sharpness. The sharpness is actually what Eloquence also has, when you think about it. It's voice isn't smoother. So now, with the recent SpeechPlayer, it's a bit like how the original sharpness was with it, when before we changed to the new Cosign waveform. It made 11025 sound very similar to 16000 and 22050 which is why I changed it. I didn't get any revolts, or like, "eww, where's the smoothness?" if anything one person told me that the voice sounds more "whole" at 44100. So I'm very conflicted on this, and I suspect people have their own preference. But now I am closer to understanding what gives Eloquence that classic Eloquence sharpness, they too probably also use an LF-type waveform.
many blind users who grew up on DECtalk/Eloquence found the softer voices harder to understand at speed, not easier. The softer voice can make consonants stick out more and not sound like it's part of the voice's bandwidth itself.

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I think I'm going to add a new "patrick" voice to Speech Player though, modeled after the other parameters, like F3 multipliers, extracted from the voice. It's not all lost. It's just that Glottal shape mostly impacts smoothness, hollowness, and ringyness of the voice or whether it's metallic or not. Badly tuned glottal tables get you a mess, well tuned ones should sound closer to what the synth used to sound like in the first place.

Is your Mastodon timeline too empty or too full? Are you seeing too much of one thing while missing important posts? Is your timeline overwhelmed by someone who shares too many posts?

These and lots more timeline problems are solved in the "How to customise your Mastodon timeline" guide:

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#FediTips #Mastodon

So, huge thanks to @BorrisInABox for sitting down and making silly sounds for like 25 minutes for me. This is a recording of SpeechPlayer using his Glottl tables. Notice how much better it came out compared to my own, no sharpness, no boxy sound. It's a perfect glottal source. But also, this tells me that the math-derived LF glottal source with tunable sharpness could get us almost this same voice, although there's a richness in the bass harmonics I can't quite explain, so the real-source Glottal tables still do a better job at making it sound a bit more natural.

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I appeal to you again on humanitarian grounds 💔
Any help, no matter how small, will contribute to easing my father's pain and speeding up his recovery. Please be a reason for his healing 🙏
chuffed.org/project/154105-isl…
#freepalestine #fuckisrael #genocide #savegaza #savegazachildren #Gaza #palestine #gazaverified #gazagenocide #GazaMutualAid #MutualAidRequest #StandWithGaza #GazaNeedsHelp
#education #europe #Resistenza

It snew. It has snown. The ground is snawn upon. ❄️❄️ This ties a record for the fourth heaviest snowfall we've gotten here. The tie for this happened in 1880. I think a couple people in the neighborhood are trying to repurpose leafblowers as snowblowers. I have no idea if that'll work or not but even if it does and they can get their cars out, the roads are not magically clear of snow.
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Yes, it seems the entire server is unreachable currently. We've reached out to our provider to take a look and bring it up again.

Meanwhile, please use one of our mirrors, they're both up and fine. You can watch monitor.izzysoft.de/ to see when our main server is back.

#IzzyOnDroid #serviceToot

Le PIB par habitant est un indicateur totalement dépassé

Si par malheur demain au volant de ma voiture j'écrasais accidentellement 2 enfants, alors j'améliorerais le PIB par habitant de la France :
- les réparations de ma voiture iraient accroître le numérateur
- les 2 décès diminueraient le dénominateur

Il est grand temps de passer à des indicateurs plus pertinents pour mesurer la "richesse" d'un pays.

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je sais, je l'ai déjà booster, mais avez vu passer cette offre d'emploi ?
entrouvert.com/actualites/2026…
c'est pas un dev ou un adminsys, pas sur que j'ai la perle rare dans mes contacts, mais une personne qui connaît l'administration française (et/ou les universités), qui connaît les bases du code (et pas qui sait coder), qui sait gérer un projet...
bref on cherche un mouton à 5 pattes mais si tu aimes les #logicielsLbres, travailler dans une #scop et avec les #administrations, et que tu as aux moins 3 des 5 pattes qu'on cherche peut-être que ce job est pour toi !

sinon tu peut toujours le repartager ...
#jerecrute

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What would happen if Michael Jackson produced Dragon Ball music? This, apparently. youtube.com/watch?v=CIroTJJPte…
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#fosdem was cool! I attended a single day, spent it all chatting with cool folks who wanted to know more about #XMPP and its gateways such as slidge.im
As the "bridges guy", it was my duty to socialize with our neighbours @matrix and @delta - we have different opinions on which tech is better, but our goals are aligned: long live federated self-hostable chat protocols! No need to FUD each other.
Matridge is already a thing, deltachidge when?
Thanks @ge0rg for the cool LED display.
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OK. Lets kick off #Movuary for this year. #ableton Move is a groovebox which can do a lot. @BorrisInABox came up with an idea to post a track made with Ableton Move every day in february and call it #Movuary. So, me @FreakyFwoof and others joined in and here we are, second year round. January is a cold dark and in general bad month so I kick it off with a darker tune.a

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Hey #FOSDEM folks 😸 !

Don't forget our two #XMPP conferences room AW1.126 📍, starting at 13:45 🕛

See you there 👀!


Movim will be at the @fosdem 2026 in Brussels ✨
This year we will also have a conference! 😽

📢 Movim: Building a Decentralized Social Network on XMPP
📍 Room: AW1.126
📅 Day: Sunday 1st of February
🕛 Start: 13:45

In this conference we'll discuss the technical challenges of building a rich web frontend on top of XMPP, showcase the exciting features recently added to the project, and introduce the upcoming planned ones.

Don't forget to save the date in your agenda! ☺️

fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event…

(We'll also introduce our new project mascots, stay tuned 😁!)

#xmpp #fosdem #fosdem2026 #conference


Today, on Digital Independence Day, the new monocles chat update has finally been released on F-Droid ( f-droid.org/ ) 🎉 . Try it out for free and use the sovereign and independent XMPP between different messengers.
The Playstore update will follow as soon as possible!

#DiDay #did #DigitalIndependenceDay #monocles #monocleschat #xmpp #fdroid #messenger

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Video Montage: A Nation On Fire - January 30, 2026 | 2:40

Massive demonstrations against ICE occurred across the United States yesterday.

Here is a collection of video clips from major US cities on January 30, 2026.

Originally posted on Mastodon by MiniMia @fkamiah17
Music background by Onj 🎶@Onj

#ProtestVideo #IceOut

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🤫 Vamos por ahí declarando nuestro amor por esta red social.

Hace un año dejamos de actualizar nuestra cuenta de X, donde estaba nuestra mayor comunidad virtual. Nos dijeron que nos íbamos a aislar, que nadie iba a ver nuestro trabajo. Apocalipsis social.

¿Y qué paso? Un pequeño terremoto que lo cambió casi todo. Aquí lo cuenta nuestra compañera @olalla - a los mandos de esta nave 🚀.

Como siempre, estamos abiertas a sugerencias y mejoras, queridas.

mailchi.mp/civio/en-bruto-rede…

I'm tired of the US threatening my country. I don't have much power, but I'm at least going to stop paying the US for tech services, and invest that money into other services instead. Today I switched my search engine & stopped paying for US cloud storage.

Wrote about it here: gustavwengel.dk/2026/02/01/out…

#digitalsovereignty #greenland #europe #EU

Looking at the #Grammy nominees this morning. On a whim, we decided to look at best arrangement. Glad we did! This is gold! Super Mario Praise Break : youtube.com/watch?si=K2atEiZeN… Update: This is your grammy winner in this category!
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When I install apps on my phone, I don't use Google Playstore; I search for the apk file, download and install it. Fairly easy to do and it bypasses google entirely. I have a few browsers that I use; I don't use Chrome, I use ungoogled Chromium. I bought an Ungoogled android phone from Murena. I installed NetGuard that enables me to lockout an app from getting or sending info. I find it brings me a sense of control and personal power. The power is yours if you choose!

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Eyes on ICE: Document and Record

"This call will give you the tools to exercise your rights in a moment when federal agents are terrorizing our communities and using excessive force."

Virtual event Thu., Feb 3 8-9pm EST

mobilize.us/nokings/event/8924…

#fuckICE #fuckTrump

Wo finde ich eine Anleitung zu Friendica-Nachrichten-Relais?

Relaisserver sind großartig, um Inhalte in deinem Server zu verbreiten, besonders für kleine Server - stimmt! Entsprechend würde ich nach dem Tod von gup.pe gerne ein Nachrichten-Relais aufsetzen, welches Beiträge mit #​Brettspiele auf kleinen Instanzen sichtbar macht.
Nur: Wo finde ich eine Anleitung, was nach Festsetzung des Kontotyps zu tun ist? Und wieso kann ein Relais-Konto keinem anderen Relais-Konto folgen? Hier erscheint neuerdings die Fehlermeldung

Dies scheint ein Relais-Konto zu sein. Diese können nicht von Nutzern gefolgt werden.


Vor ein paar Versionen ging das noch.

#Friendica #FriendicaHelp #FriendicaRelays @Friendica Support

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@Oliver @Tealk Relaisserver und Kanalrelais sind zwei unterschiedlichen Sachen. Kanalrelais sind Nutzerkonnten reposten nur Beiträge die anhand eines Filters auf den der Instanz bekannten Seiten finden. Also normaler User kannst du diesen Kanalrelais folgen. Aber die Instanz selber kann den Kanalrelais nicht folgen.

Kanalrelais kann, wenn es der Admin erlaubt, eine User selber anlegen. Relaisserver kann aber nur der Admin hinzufügen damit die Instanz von denen Beiträge bekommt oder sie weiterverteilen.

in going through a bunch of old files in my downloads folder, I found an old zip of the source code for fleksy/flicktype
Any iOS coders or Vibe Coders want this to hack on?
It was open source for a while until he close sourced it for some reason. I have no idea what state the source is in, I just remember grabbing it thinking I bet it'll be useful some day when he pulls the source off gh.
I can tell you the date I got the zzip from github was 6/16/2018
So if someone wants to be a hero and revive flicktype let me know and I'll send the archive.

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BOYCOTT. BOYCOTT. #BOYCOTT.

It's convenient to think that boycotts don't work because then we can just keep buying whatever we want. But boycotts often do work. As recently as a few months ago pressure was put on Disney for suspending Jimmy Kimmel. There's a much longer history of successful boycotts. Ever heard of Rosa Parks?

Of course, #Apple is HUGE. Even more reason to stop giving them all the money. No one forces you to buy a new iPhone every other year or subscribe to AppleTV.

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If Apple-focused YouTubers and podcasters are actually fed up and as disgusted as they often profess to their audiences, they should step over the line and actually call for a boycott. There's no shortage of reasons at this point. Start naming specific grievances, list them out. Repeat them. And use the word boycott over and over.

Move on from criticism. If ever there was a time for #tech media folk to actually take a stand, 2026 is that time. Passive "reporting" helps #Apple. Do better.

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If you're an #Apple user that doesn't like Tim Cook's fascist booklicking and if you've seen enough of Apple's increasingly fucked up conduct, stop giving them your money.

- Stop using Apple subscription services like Music, AppleTV, etc
- Move your data out of iCloud. Start gradually, find other services (YES, they do exist) and gradually downgrade your iCloud plan.
- Stop upgrading hardware. Use what you have until it no longer works. You don't need the latest, greatest new thing.

#BOYCOTT

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אַידיש ליד יעדען טאָג: ״קיעװער טראַמװײַ״

Yiddish Song of the Day: "Kiever Tramway" #Yiddish #YiddishSongoftheDay

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