Around 2013, someone created an add-on that allowed the old Siri voices to be used with NVDA, which worked because those voices were licensed to Apple by Nuance Communications. The 2013 version of the US English Siri female voice, originally named Nicky, used in the add-on has interesting behaviors with the string "brr," from odd sounds to an interesting beat if "brr" is typed multiple times.
@FreakyFwoof Does anyone remember the beatboxing German Google TTS synth? It should go with that. I probably have it somewhere from years and years ago, but no idea what the filename is.
@FreakyFwoof @BorrisInABox Speaking of Google, the new native audio TTS synth they have can totally do beatboxing and make other strange noises if prompted to do so. Will send demos here shortly, do with them what you will lol.
sure, but the ones who say wayland is a conspiracy to suppress x11 are not only on crack, but wayland was literally started by the remaining x11 devs who were sick of working on unfixable broken shit
let me clarify. I like the choice Linux offers me. You're free to select whatever components you see fit for the task. That's why I'm naturally opposed to any monopolization attempts.
not to be pedantic but is it really monopolization when the main developers of X11 have since move on to another project deliberately to replace the old?
Like to my understanding, it isn’t about “competition” in this case, but about moving standards from one system to another and making that work happen. Ie. we use computers in 2025, not 1985, and the way graphics for computers work has changed significantly from then til now, and part of the reason Wayland exists is to be able to modernize graphics on anything that uses it. So it’s a shift in standards vs Competition. Especially when it’s all X11 devs who moved on to Wayland and have generally stopped putting much work into X11 as is.
(And that isn’t even touching on most of the code added to base X11 from the founder of XLibre being reverted out due to breaking changes and weird modifications of licenses retroactively as people started looking over the commits and noticing some issues..)
Idk, I think a lot of the arguing around this issue is stemming from a handful of malignant actors that are deliberately throwing chaff into the wind and getting into everyone’s hair about it while fundamentally misunderstanding what is going on and why we have Wayland to begin with. Arguably deliberately misunderstanding for the sake of arguing and causing drama.
Are there technical issues with Wayland? Yeah! But there’s also a fuckload of technical issues with X11 as well, and the decision was made to focus on Wayland and modernizing graphics on Linux rather than maintaining something who’s primary promise of network transparency stopped being true decades ago.
Wayland and systemd are both symptoms of the same behaviour, as was PulseAudio:
Observe that an existing system has flaws.
Don't engage with users to identify use cases.
Throw up some half-finished code (with incomplete or nonexistent backwards compatibility) that solves some of the problems of the old system but doesn't address all of its use cases and introduces more problems for other people.
Declare that the old thing is deprecated and everyone needs to move to the new thing.
Create a load of work in the rest of the ecosystem that other people have to do.
Silence all criticism by pointing out that the old thing was imperfect.
And that's the kind of thing that you can only get away with if you're able to act as a monopoly, by employing maintainers at key points across the ecosystem.
The biggest problem with Microsoft was not that their monopoly allowed them to be evil, it was that it allowed them to be stupid. A lot of things in the MS ecosystem are actually bad for Microsoft, but they're pushed out because no one inside MS cares enough to do the right thing and no one outside is able to fix the problems. I, personally, don't want the F/OSS OS ecosystem to end up like that.
@davidgerard@circumstances.run I have poured most hours of my last 10 years of life into listening to users and pushing things forward on Wayland even if I personally wouldn't need the feature. I really saddens me that someone would think that Wayland developers don't care.
We do care, but we only have a finite amount of time in our volunteer life. Yes, we don't copy-paste solutions from X11: we try to fully understand the problem space and do better. This does mean that coming to us with technical solutions rather than use-cases tends to be met with "please, explain why you need to do this?".
I don't really know what you mean when you say that we silence criticism. I've read enough in the past years to guarantee that it's not silenced. I appreciate constructive criticism better than rants, rants tend to demoralize me.
I am also saddened about the conspiracy that big corp deprecates X11 against the community's will. There is no single company with a monopoly here, please take a bit of time to look at Wayland developers' employers. Personally, I'm ex-SourceHut and now just a volunteer (my day job is unrelated: SNCF Réseau).
I've never said that X11 was deprecated, and I always tell people to use whatever works best for them. The only reason why X11 has less activity nowadays is because X11 lacks volunteers. (We severely lack volunteers on the Wayland side too.)
People, distros, communities move away from X11 if/when they collectively decide that they should. Nobody's pulling the strings here.
created an account, stored password and encryption key in my password manager. Tried to login - said password was wrong. Tried to reset password - said encryption key was wrong. ‘sup?
Update: i got a response from an info email address with an apology and a Dropbox download link. Unfortunately, clicking the link tells me I don’t have permission to access the file.
Update again: after two more email exchanges, I now have a working password, and they uploaded the file on my server directly so I can access it. I have no idea what will happen with updates, but I'll jump off that bridge when I come to it.
Latest update for log_list.json includes a logs: [], which breaks the requirement here. However maybe we should be checking whether logs or tiled_logs is not empty instead?
I don't like that you explicitly state "poorly implemented". Yes, maybe, but no reason to shit on the developer when they are unpaid and not the actual issue here. That's insensitive and uncalled for.
it’s not so black and white. If you are an unpaid maintainer you have no obligation to put in extra work, for sure. But if you do take down the banking system of a country once (still not your fault!) and people tell you your library is broken… I think you start having a responsibility to either deprecate it, fix it, or at least warn users. We live in a society.
Amongst other things, there's an open source software supply chain story here.
This Android library with 174 stars and one maintainer has taken down Monday.com, Eventbrite (!!!), UPS, Kraken, Lowe's, YBS, IKEA, Agibank, iFood, PagBank, pago.ro, and Udemy.
Again, this is the same failure mode that caused outages in 2023.
Latest update for log_list.json includes a logs: [], which breaks the requirement here. However maybe we should be checking whether logs or tiled_logs is not empty instead?
EU president throws her full weight behind the Netanyahu & Trump attacks on Iran, while negotiations were ongoing. Reminders: 1) Iran restarted uranium enrichment after Trump withdrew from the agreement in 2018. 2) US intelligence recently stated that Iran did not pursue nuclear weapon development.
How a humanities background shaped the technical decisions behind the multilingual journey of Raccoon apps. Check out my blog post and stay tuned for updates!
@FreakyFwoof oh I'd enjoy it, under other circumstances. But sponsored results bother me. I do a weekly grocery shop and looking for regulars should be something these sites are good at by now, y'know?
«Нэўрасеткі для мовазнаўцаў: першыя крокі». Адкрытая лекцыя аднаго з стваральнікаў Нацыянальнага корпуса беларускай мовы, праграміста Алеся Булойчыка. * Чаго на самай справе варта чакаць ад нэўрасетак— разбурэньне мітаў і рэальныя пэрспэктывы * Як бясьпечна і эфэктыўна працаваць са штучным інтэлектам — ключавыя прынцыпы для дасьледчыкаў
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@asael так разумею, разьлічана на публіку бяз досьведу працы з нэўрасеткамі або зь вельмі павярхоўным досьведам. Толькі ня вельмі зразумеў, навошта вылучаць у назьве мовазнаўцаў, бо сказанае вельмі агульнае й тычыцца любога кантэксту. Мо будзе працяг з мовазнаўчай спэцыфікай.
By George! I've got it! I've got access to Alexa Plus! Hear my first takes, and Oh Boy the Setup using the iOS App with VoiceOver could use some work. But I've Got! The voices are fantastic! creators.spotify.com/pod/show/…
I've finally got into the Alexa Plus Beta, and boy is it cool! We also have a demo of setting up the features the first time using the Alexa App, as a VoiceOver user.
OTTAWA - Canadians thinking of planning a trip to the United States are being advised by the Government of Canada to perhaps consider going anywhere else on the entire fucking planet for their summer vacations.
"Is there nowhere else on this fucking earth where you can order a sort-of-raw hamburger from someone who doesn’t give a shit where Manitoba is?" 😂 🤣 😂
In the comments section of this post, I’d like you to share your recording of the 2025 BBC Midwinter Broadcast to Antarctica! Time and frequencies Our intrepid contributor, Richard Langley, r…
High time to announce my newest project: #PublicArtExplorer If you are into art and would like to know what outdoor art is available around you (or any other place you are interested in) this app may be for you. Check it out and let me know what you think.
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While in the #waymo ride, I commited an unprecedented act of self-indulgence by playing my own music on the car speakers. Simply created a station based on my own music, and there it was! I was pleased with the sound, I have to admit! THis is what I played: youtube.com/watch?v=Kz1WLArws3…
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Just before the #TactileReading conference, @ChanceyFleet and I took a little stroll through the lively streets of #Amsterdam. I recorded with my Meta glasses while she guided us and captured our commentary, interactions, me almost getting nailed by a bike, and just the overall #Blind travel experience. I cut the whole thing together with Terminal/ffmpeg, added captions, and hosted it. If you have 6 minutes to spare, pop on some headphones and enjoy our adventure! marconius.com/amsterdam/
@menelion I played the clips back in VLC and took note of the times where I wanted to trim the clips, then just used ffmpeg commands in Terminal to output the trimmed sections as their own video files. I write out a list of the order I wanted the clips to be put together, then run another command to turn them all into one final cut based on that text file. I can also add effects, potentially add audio, filters, and more, just need to keep playing with it. works great with TDSR.
I (and many others) are convinced that the #AI hype bubble is gonna burst at some point, but I haven't seen many talk about what actually happens when it does?
I believe that when the bubble bursts, the word ‘AI’ will no longer be an attractive marketing term, and will go out of fashion due to its connection to a market crash. AI companies like OpenAI and Anthropic will cease to exist in the same way that dotcom companies did in the early 2000s.
That doesn't mean that AI technologies as a whole will go away. Creeps will still use them to produce non-consensual deep fake porn. War criminals will still use AI in their murderous technologies. Internet spammers will still use large-language models to overflow our information ecosystems with slop.
When the AI bubble bursts, the tech industry will have reached the end of its decades long growth cycle, and will accept its role as a legacy industry at the same level of the auto industry, construction industry, hospitality industry or many other industries.
Microsoft, Google, Apple, Amazon and other Big Tech-companies will still exist due to them already being embedded in our economies, but they will finally stop trying to hype up new technologies, because there is no ‘next big thing’.
Trump's probably like "hear me out guys, what if instead of giving them legal status we just make them property of the farmers, right? Nobody has ever tried this before, it's genius"
Trump Now Says Farmers May Continue Employing Migrants Under a System Where They Assume 'Responsibility' For Them latintimes.com/trump-now-says-…
As a Swiss I find this disgusting. Either you have rules or not. This kind of selective enforcement is deeply corrupt. If ICE checks on them that is s step up.
@CapitalB I've been waiting for this for years because all the farmers in my community housed undocumented workers and would vote for this type of thing.
Another MAGA Republican death threat. This one against Kamala Harris. Where's the FBI? This is a major MAGA account with almost a third of a million followers.
Google TalkBack is the default built-in screen reader for Android. However, starting with One UI 3.0 based on Android 11, Samsung phones and tablets come with
#AudioMo day 19: Sorry for my absence, we were on vacation but unfortunately didn't get the chance to really record anything to put here. So now I'm pulling things up from the archives. This here is a ringtone I made in 2020 called Unify, inspired by a patch from Soundspot's Union called "Big Pants Lead," which I'm using as the chord patch here. For how simple it is, just the chords, a bass and some drums, all pretty basic, this thing is ridiculously catchy IMO. My mom still uses this as her phone's ringtone to this day. You can get this ringtone for yourself, in iPhone or Android format, at x0box.xyz/uploads/ringtones
#AudioMo day 20: More ringtones! This one was made in March of 2021 and is called On The Move. It was also inspired by a sound, namely the bass patch, which is a modified version of the Phat Funk patch from the Korg Arp Odyssey plug-in. I was playing with it and came up with this bassline. This one has two versions. The original version of it had no arp stabs and no lead. When I was later advised to add those, I made a lite version, which includes the arp stabs but mutes the lead, which you hear first. Then you hear the regular version. Both of these can be found for iOS and Android at x0box.xyz/uploads/ringtones
The United Nations Open Source United community and the Open Source Initiative (OSI) today announced that the OSI has become the first organization to officially endorse the UN Open Source Principles.
Braille Keyboard lets you type in braille across any app on your iPhone. With a fully integrated custom keyboard, you can input braille characters directly into messages, documents, or anywhere the standard iOS keyboard appears.
Régime de terreur en Arabie Saoudite : l’exécution du journaliste Turki al-Jasser fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turki_al… Le ministère de l’Intérieur saoudien a annoncé, le 14 juin, l’exécution du #journaliste Turki al-Jasser, emprisonné arbitrairement depuis sept ans. Les autorités saoudiennes l’avaient condamné pour plusieurs accusations fallacieuses de terrorisme et de haute trahison en raison de ses publications en ligne. rsf.org/fr/r%C3%A9gime-de-terr…
Reporters sans frontières (RSF) condamne fermement l’exécution du journaliste saoudien Turki al-Jasser, mis à mort le 14 juin, au terme de sept ans d’emprisonnement arbitraire.
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