Windows Narrator is adding a speech viewer / log:
blogs.windows.com/windows-insi…

Do not treat it as a proxy for what is actually announced:
adrianroselli.com/2020/08/spee…

#accessibility #a11y

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if they can one-up other screen readers in actually dumping the output string of how the text-to-speech engine spoke the text, I'd be amazed. Still a huge point of confusion with VoiceOver's caption panel and other things, even at work, not to mention your article, yes. However, this could be a chance for them to do it right, especially if this is getting targeted at teachers and other professionals.
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That doesn't seem technically possible, let alone likely from Microsoft. Every synthesiser would need to report back what was actually said and how, which would also mean them agreeing on a format in which to deliver that information. At best, Microsoft could implement it for their own voices, and publish a spec for anyone else who wanted to bother. @aardrian
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@jscholes Yeah, when they had announced their "new natural voices", I was hopeful that maybe they'd add something exclusive to them with how it was (still is) so coupled to Narrator only, so this would be a good chance for it. Will probably wait for others to test it on the insider channel as I don't have any machines enrolled in it right now nor my past enthusiasm for trying them out. xD @aardrian

I wrote these two Windows C++ programs over the weekend to copy/paste files from the windows clipboard from the command line. fcopy will put one or more files on your clipboard, similar to pressing control+c in windows explorer, and fpaste will paste any files currently on your clipboard to the current directory. github.com/trypsynth/cmd_clip/…
They're both written in modern C++, tested building with WinLibs and G++. A makefile is provided to make building easier. Zlib license. Both binaries are under 100 KB.
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@jscholes This is pretty much what I guessed, which is why I didn't ask the question. (I didn't guess that it would build faster as a C++ program, but it honestly doesn't surprise me, given the weight of windows-rs.) On the topic of binary size, it sucks that with stable Rust, every binary carries ~100 KB of code to build and render a stack trace on panic. But that's being worked on. Nightly Rust does allow tiny binaries.

AI-enabled smart cane that can give directions or travel tips wins design award attoday.co.uk/ai-enabled-smart…

Chicago hosted a massive TDoV gathering yesterday, and @piperbomb.bsky.social was there with her camera. You have GOT to see these pictures. (We'll thread a few of them.) www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

A Torrent Of Solidarity in the...

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I've prototyped a CLI client for resumable uploads at github.com/tus/rufh-implementa… and the gist is: The client offers the server to upgrade to resumable uploads. If the server provides an upload resource, the client can use it to resume from network interruptions and 5XX responses. In addition, the upload resource URI is saved in a text file, allowing resumption after the client crashes or is interrupted (e.g. Ctrl/Cmd+C), similar to how curl's `--continue-at -` works.

Lots happened in the #LibreOffice project in March – updates to the software, Document Freedom Day, new podcast episode, news from a German state's migration of 30,000 PCs to LibreOffice, and more: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #opensource #freesoftware
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Love the new article :

LibreOffice Base and Firebird – a special relationship

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#LibreOffice #FirebirdSQL #SQL

Mixxx is proud to announce our partnership in a joint research project between a university and a major AI company. On benevolent behalf of all our users, Mixxx agreed. The research project wants to improve the detection of human crowd sentiments. Read more:

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Wahrscheinlich ist es den wenigsten hier aufgefallen, dass ich in der letzten Woche recht still im #Fediverse war. Ursache war ein unachtsamer Autofahrer, der mich letzte Woche bei seinem Linksabiegen vom #Fahrrad geschossen hat. Resultat sind zwei gebrochene Arme und ein Bruch am Halswirbel.

Ich könnte das hier wahrscheinlich heute nicht schreiben, wenn ich keinen #Helm getragen hätte. Darum mein Appell an alle, die mit dem #Rad unterwegs sind:

TRAGT EINEN HELM!

#fedibikes #berlincycling

Report: Building A Disability-Inclusive AI Ecosystem: A Cross-Disability, Cross-Systems Analysis Of Best Practices aapd.com/disability-inclusive-…

I bought a pair of Envision glasses at CSun. After playing with them for about a week, I think I’m able to return them. They can do things that the Meta glasses can’t do, like offline realtime image processing, face detection and column + row document layout detection. However the device makes so many compromises to get there that a lot of these benefits are sort of theoretical, and a Google Glass II for thrice the price is really tough to justify in 2025. Too locked down for power users, too fiddly for people who want something simple, and too expensive for either.

Here is my audio review + demo!

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White House Correspondents’ Dinner Scraps Host In Favor Of Terrified Silence. “While we respect the legacy of a presidential roast, if you so much as cough, you will be forcibly removed.” Please enjoy each autocratic shift equally. theonion.com/white-house-corre…

European countries resist US push to scrap diversity and inclusion initiatives
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Senator Cory Booker is holding the floor of the Senate and says he “will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis”. youtube.com/watch?v=v2utlMxAwt…

This truly made me laugh! In the Applevis discussion about the iOS 18.4 release, applevis.com/blog/apple-releas…, someone posted the following comment:

"I asked Siri how can I stop VO from saying button. She said "from stopping voiceover saying button, turn off voiceover". Nuts."
Even if it's no longer reproducible, it's an awesome joke!

Apple Releases iOS 18.4 and iPadOS 18.4; Bringing Enhancements to VoiceOver and Braille applevis.com/blog/apple-releas…