For those on the beta channel, NVDA 2024.4 Beta 3 is available for testing. LibLouis has been updated fixing issues in Spanish and adding new Thai and Greek tables. There are also updates to NVDA translations. Read the full info and download at: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2024-4b… (Note that Beta 2 released last week included the add-on update check fix included in 2024.3.1 today).
@garo I must admit I don't use regular add-ons much, let alone incompatible ones - From memory, I think you still get the warning - did you recently update to 2024.3 and /or 2024.3.1 - that might have been a good opportunity confirm exactly what happens.
@QuincePie that's just the commits that end up in the source repository. PRs can have numerous that then might end up just a single one in the final merge. We don't think we can even count commits done in PRs properly if we wanted.
Motivo de orgullo: los costes de construcción de infraestructura ferroviaria de alta velocidad son muy pequeños en España. El último informe de INECO lo confirma: 17,7 millones de euros por kilómetro, frente a una media de 45,5. Motivo de preocupación: cada vez menos jóvenes estudian ingenierías, con una bajada de la demanda del 17 % […]
@agocke @malwareminigun OpenSSL has a weirdly tight grip of its users in spite of OpenSSL more or less abusing their users over and over. Probably to a large degree I'm guessing a lock-in effect of their GIANT API that is also weird and hard to copy.
Storm Dragon pushed changes to the testing branch of the audiogame-manager project For games that require steamcmd, you can now place the files manually if you want.
NV Access is pleased to announce that version 2024.3.1 of NVDA, the free screen reader for Microsoft Windows, is now available for download. We encourage all users to upgrade to this version.
This is a patch release to fix a bug with the automatic add-on update notification. When automatically checking for add-on updates, NVDA no longer freezes on poor connections.
Glad to share with you this sample of the second iteration of OptiSpeech-TTS. In this iteration I fixed some issues related to punctuation pauses and pitch intonation. Needless to say that the model generates quality speech while being very fast and efficient. Thanks again to @pneumasolutions for their continued support.
awesome! except, is it only me, or the voice has a certain pronounced hissing issue? also, there's a lot of noise there, similar to what one would get with flite or festival voices. O yeah, it didn't pronounce the a in accessibility at the near beginning of the recording, which makes me wonder, how will pronunciation issues like these get fixed in this AI tts paradigm? Using more traditional methods, rules could be written to the phonemiser to compensate, like the ibm tts community dictionary for example, but with this, are you gonna have to retrain the entire model, or a significant part of it?
@esoteric_programmer Regarding the audible artifacts, this is half way in training. Most of them will be gone when training reaches step 1000000. Regarding pronunciation, phonemic rules can be written to enhance pronunciation same as with other TTS systems. Also, this particular model is very controllable. You can elongate phonemes, change the pitch and add stress at the phoneme level if you want.
@esoteric_programmer It does use that. But I'm working on a text preprocessing layer that can accept user dictionaries and apply changes at the phonemization and inference stages.
@esoteric_programmer Yes. This is a custom architecture. The baseline is JETS, but I augmented it with several components from the latest research in the field. Keep in mind that this has only 13M parameters, while Piper has 23M parameters. And OptiSpeech is at least an order of magnitude faster than Piper.
It looks like Bliss OS (Android for PC hardware) was used to help set a world record this week. The DIY Perks video shows some of the OS details. guinnessworldrecords.com/news/…
Wow, that's crazy: the world's largest iPhone, 2 meters high – got into Guiness (no, not the beer, the world record). And the craziest part? It runs a customized Android 🤪
Such a good video, although slightly disappointed by the android theming... I was excited for the details on how they managed to get a standard display signal out of a hilariously small iphone board
@daniel theming: well, it should look like an iPhone 🤷♂️ But yeah, it was all pretty impressive. When they plugged in that massive USB cable I got a laugh-flash 🙈
François Legault has had 6+ years to recruit, graduate, and place more teachers... instead, he practices the politics of fear, division, and hate w/ language and fabric. mastodon.world/@somecanuckchic… #assnat #polQC #QCpoli
Good news: #IzzyOnDroid is now also present at #OpenCollective 🥳 Thanks to the help of @electrikjesus we go with BlissLabs as our Fiscal Host. Like IoD, Bliss focuses on Android, and on extending the life of Android devices, helping futher community innovation and helping with the world's e-waste problems – which we found to be a good match!
Thanks Jon & BlissLabs accepting to be our Fiscal Host – and we look forward to a fruitful companionship!
I joined the club! I got a pair of Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses this weekend and am very impressed with them so far. I went with the Wayfarer Shiny Black style with clear lenses.
Do you happen to have any musical keyboard instrument? I'm curious to know if it's possible to use a smart glass to read a keyboard screen and program it at will, e.g. choose and edit tones and styles.
I just learnt that Kitboga and co made a piece of software called 'Seraph Secure' which can help stop scammers accessing your computer. It's free, but extra options do cost if you need those. seraphsecure.com/
A quick story/rant.. my cousin got my mother a new coffee maker. I don't expect my mom to use the WiFi functionality, but I'm still concerned about why we would need a whole coffee maker to have a small computer in it... I understand the versatility of not having a hub, and that hubs are also a single point of access for any malicious actors, but I'm sure a hub for multiple devices instead of a thing for a coffee maker would be updated much more frequently, and supported for longer. If nothing else, maybe I can pull it into my janky Home Assistant setup somehow.
Even if it doesn't end up being a gateway for snooping on home network, it is quite silly, in my opinion. Now, I must go check to see if anyone's hacked at these yet lol...
Macht doch bitte mal mit allen Euren Freund*innen, Eurer Familie, Menschen an Eurem Arbeitsplatz folgendes, ganz einfaches Experiment:
Fragt, ob die Person im Schnitt mehr als 1000 Euro am Tag an Zins- und Dividendengewinnen auf ihrem Konto gutgeschrieben bekommt, oder entsprechende Aktiengewinne einstreicht.
Wenn das nicht der Fall ist, habt Ihr eine weitere Person gefunden, die von einer Vermögenssteuer profitieren würde und keinesfalls selbst von der Steuer (als zahlende*r) betroffen wäre. Dann ist es nur noch ein kleiner Schritt, die Person davon zu überzeugen, die Europäische Initiative zur Einführung einer Vermögenssteuer mitzuzeichnen:
Da braucht es nämlich noch ein paar Stimmen ... ein paar viele sogar. Im Gegensatz zu den zahlreichen Klickibunti-Petitionen, die keinerlei Verbindlichkeit haben, ist das hier eine, die in einem Gesetzgebungsverfahren münden könnte, wenn genügend Menschen sich anschließen.
Mein Gast (ein erwachsener Mann) mag Katzen und Einhörner. Zu seinem Pech bin ich doof.
Er wirds überleben, und schlimmstenfalls hab ich noch langweilige andere.
PS: Those in my timeline who do know him *eyes two certain cats*: he has NOT seen it yet, so please no spoilers in the Signal group or so, just in case
@Bubu ich glaube meine Bubble ist da die falsche, die meisten fänden es witzig oder sogar toll, die meisten Leute da draussen würden schreiend wegrennen
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