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Path A: Direct DSP Only (speechPlayer.dll)
You handle everything yourself:
Your App → [Your IPA parser] → [Your frame builder] → speechPlayer_queueFrame/Ex() → DSP → Audio
What you do:
• Parse IPA text into phonemes
• Look up formant values from your own phoneme table
• Build speechPlayer_frame_t structs (47 parameters)
• Build speechPlayer_frameEx_t structs (5 parameters) if you want voice quality
• Calculate timing/duration yourself
• Call speechPlayer_queueFrame() or speechPlayer_queueFrameEx() directly
• Mix per-phoneme FrameEx with user settings yourself (if desired)
Pros: Full control, no frontend dependency, smaller footprint Cons: You reimplement all the phoneme logic, coarticulation, prosody, etc.
Path B: Frontend + DSP (nvspFrontend.dll → speechPlayer.dll)
Frontend does the heavy lifting:
Your App → nvspFrontend_queueIPA[_Ex]() → [Frontend magic] → Your Callback → speechPlayer_queueFrame/Ex() → DSP → Audio
You might be thinking, but that's more layers!
The alternative would be pushing mixing into the DSP, but then:
• DSP needs phoneme awareness (wrong layer!)
• Or every driver reimplements mixing (inconsistency, bugs)
The "extra layer" is actually the frontend doing its job - keeping linguistic smarts out of the DSP and out of every driver.

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Next NV Speech Player update: Sharable user profiles in the phoneme packs. I got it coded during lunch, not a bad AI sesh. It's coming. While NVDA driver settings need to be stored as .conf values, we will let you click a "save voice profile to phonemes" button in the NVSpeech panel, so you can upload your defined sliders and phoneme class overrides to ship a complete voice. Same will go for the phoneme editor: If you want deeper voice tuning, you can tune there and save it to file, no more storing voice information in just the .ini file. So yep, solid updates for next build already. The frontend now can do frame mixing, significantly reducing burden on drivers to communicate with the DSP layer directly, they just talk to the Frontend's two callback's and frame emission mixing happens there rather than needing to be done by the drivers or callers. This makes life a lot simpler and moves more things to slowly centralize in the frontend component.

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Here's a tale of how nature triumphs in the end.

Steel mills dumped molten slag in parts of Chicago and nearby areas. The slag hardened in layers up to 15 feet deep. These places became barren wastelands. Other industries dumped hot ash and cinders there.

But eventually the steel mills closed.

The deep layers of hard, toxic material were not friendly to plants. Cottonwoods are usually 30 meters tall or more. In the slag fields, stunted cottonwoods grow to just 2 meters.

But rare species that could handle these conditions began to thrive. The lakeside daisy, a federally threatened species lost to Illinois for decades, turns out to grow taller on slag than on topsoil! The capitate spike-rush, last recorded in Illinois in 1894 and considered locally extinct, was rediscovered growing on slag.

And more! Native prairie grasses like little bluestem. Native milkweeds. Even tiny white orchids called sphinx ladies' tresses.

A team of women ecologists began studying these unusual landscapes. They call themselves the Slag Queens.

(1/n)

Sedges and other plants poking up from slag in the sunset. This is the Marian R. Byrnes Natural Area in Chicago, photographed by Jason Smith: https://mag.uchicago.edu/science-medicine/beauty-slag
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Möchte etwas loswerden:

Wenn ich mir anschaue, was @rpolenz und @BlumeEvolution so abbekommen, würde ich mich wirklich freuen, wenn hier einige verbal abrüsten würden.

Bitte beurteilt Menschen nach ihrem konkreten Handeln und nicht nach Etiketten, die ihnen angeheftet werden.

Allen, die das tun, möchte ich hiermit herzlich danken und ihnen meine Hochachtung aussprechen.

Und ebenso allen, die die Kraft finden, ihren Umgang mit Menschen in den sozialen Medien kritisch zu reflektieren.

@Michael Blume @Ruprecht Polenz
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Bonita Mascota

Ja, ich find's nämlich sehr schön, wieviel Zuneigung den beiden hier überwiegend entgegenschlägt. Der Käse ist der Prominenz geschuldet. Geht aber auch uns allen so. Sobald ausnahmsweise mal ein Trööt steil geht, fängt man sich die ersten idiotischen Kommentare ein. Oder meint ihr nicht? Ich hoffe die beiden stehen darüber.
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Dennis

@achimreinke Den Wunsch nach mehr Abrüstung verstehe ich. Gerade bei den beiden Beispielen muss ich aber sagen, dass sie sich wirklich nicht respektvoll verhalten haben, als sie um Inklusion gebeten wurden. Stattdessen Wurde zumindest von Herrn Blume eine ausgewiesene Expertin auf dem Gebiet übel beleidigt. Und bei allem Verständnis für überzogene Kritik, die zum Tagesgeschäft gehören mag: Da erwarte ich, den Unterschied zu erkennen und die Größe zu haben, sich auch einmal einen Fehler einzugestehen und vielleicht zumindest eine Woche danach mal eine Entschuldigung hören zu lassen.

Respekt und Umgangsformen sind nämlich wahrlich keine Einbahnstraße.

@Achim Reinke

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Relationship polls -- are you legally bound roomates or are you actually sharing your life with them?

If you gambled on a fart and lost, would you tell your wife/partner or try to deal with it discretely?

  • Try to be discreet about it (0 votes)
  • Let them know without delay (0 votes)
  • Tell them about it eventually (0 votes)
Poll end: in 2 hours

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the place I work is after a senior software engineer - good people, full remote, 4-day weeks at full pay
assemblyfour.com/careers/senio…

Senior Software Engineer - Assembly Four

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typo

Jesus Christ. What happens when they fuck something up and they can't revert the codebase to a specific version? Thats like one of the biggest perks of having a version control system.

The weird thing we do is that we include the ID of the relevant Azure DevOps ticket in the name of the branch, like "2727603-fix-some-bug", and it becomes really annoying really quick, especially because I prefer using git via a command line rather than a GUI

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@nixCraft otoh, isn't this what people wanted though?

Everyone proclaims they want to take down big tech and how evil it is. But now we want the government to ... make it illegal for them to shoot their own dicks off with bad decisions?

You can kill big tech but not without killing big tech jobs, that's just the way it works
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nixCraft 🐧 (@nixCraft@mastodon.social)

Attached: 1 image people might joke but this is where the IT industry is headed and nobody is safe. it doesn't matter if you are good or bad, you are just another commodity. just look at how many engineering jobs were cut in the past 18 months.
nixCraft 🐧 (Mastodon)
@nixCraft 🐧
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Phantasm

All of this is a logical conclusion of how the industry was going for at least the last decade. Rapid growth, everybody wanted to work in IT, everybody wanted to study IT. Eventual correction when businesses found out everyone isn't as necessary as they believed was inevitable.

Also from quoted post:
> you are just another commodity.
Yes, that's how this works. You sell yourself and your time to do work for someone else. That's it. As if the "resources" in HR wasn't clear enough about that.

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feld

damn i lost my draft i guess

alright well anyway i was writing that this is kind of an unrelated tangent, but it has some key points nobody talks about (except me and my degenerate friends):

Your corporate job was "cradle to the grave". They trained you. You were loyal. If you were good at your job, raises and promotions were guaranteed. Your understanding of the company was key to its long term success. These are important values. And as a result, you had job security. This means you can do things like... afford a 30 year mortgage.

Now we have banks handing out 30 year mortgages when people can't keep their jobs longer than 3 years. The banks are making a huge mistake. You can't do that; the risk is too high and it massively screws up the housing market long term.

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RE: tldr.nettime.org/@dk/115962588…

It has been written before, but the main goal of AI is not to improve efficiency but to lower the bargaining position of labour (unions).

They don't sell managers efficiency (for the people they currently employ), they sell them a tool to negotiate down on your contract terms during review.

Dmytri

2026-01-26 17:31:22

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I love conversational interfaces, and I am a big proponent of automation. The trouble is when these tools are not sold as productivity software to empower people who are doing work, with skill and effort, but as ways to create value without skill and effort.
8/11

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Videos prove, the Russian army stays online in Ukraine using network equipment from American company Ubiquiti.

Worried customers have been discussing this in Ubiquiti’s online forums, but threads have been shut down for “violating community guidelines”.

Many companies see their products sold to Russia, but Ubiquiti products are actually online, which means Ubiquiti could trace the illegal use and intervene — so why don’t they?

hntrbrk.com/ubiquiti/


Ubiquiti: The U.S. Tech Enabling Russia's Drone War - HUNTERBROOK

Based on Hunterbrook Media’s reporting, Hunterbrook Capital is short $UI and long a basket of comparable securities at the time of publication. Positions may change at any time. See full disclosures below.
Jenny Ahn (Hunterbrook Media)

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Holy shit. TIL that Janet Jackson is the only Grammy-winning artist with a CVE.

CVE-2022-38392 indicates that playing Rhythm Nation near certain hard drives will cause a crash, because the song contains a resonate frequency with a 5400RPM spinning disk of a certain diameter and construction.

Neat.

#music #infosec

#infosec #music

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Are you interested in testing your USB cables? Then I have a blog post for you:

blog.literarily-starved.com/20…

Be aware: You might discover that your cable is fooling your PC

Treedix USB Cable Tester: Data and power modes
Treedix USB Cable Tester: Connected lanes
Treedix USB Cable Tester: Resistance values
Treedix USB Cable Tester: eMarker output (occasionally the cable is lying)

Technology: The (nearly) perfect USB cable tester does exist

Your USB cables may lie to your PC. Let me show you how to catch those.
Literarily Starved
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As it came up in a few conversations during "FOSDEM week", here's a link to the OpenSSF blog post about why the idea of "attestation for open source projects" is, in my opinion, and others, a bad idea:

openssf.org/blog/2026/01/21/pr…

Yes, FOSS foundations and projects need ways of getting funding, that is very important, but thinking that "attestation is how we will get that money!" might not be such a good idea given the risks involved, and the past experience for those that have attempted it.

Preserving Open Source Sustainability While Advancing Cybersecurity Compliance – Open Source Security Foundation

openssf.org
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