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Hmm. So, To balance clarity and accent reduction, I'll set default stress modifications to (1.25, 1.07), as suggested by Gemini, with some exceptions. English might go to (1.4, 1.1), Hungarian to (1.15, 1.04), and Romance languages to (1.2, 1.05). For Portuguese, I'll consider a new nasalization tweak, removing ̃ and `` globally.

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I'm working on these fun things called allophones. Sounds like a musical instrument right? "Now come on my son, go inside to eat and put down those allophones this minute!"
Not even close. They are different, non-meaningful pronunciations (variants) of the same phoneme (basic sound unit) that occur in specific, predictable phonetic environments, like the aspirated 'p' in "pin" versus the unaspirated 'p' in "spin". Speakers of a language perceive these variations as the same sound, but they are distinct phonetic realizations that don't change a word's meaning, unlike phonemes which do.
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Tamas G

they're all mapped in data.py - right now about 100-130 or so, but the IPA symbol of the sound is what each dictionary key entry is, and then the various voicing properties that create that sound. Many TTS engines do not pronounce IPA notation, oddly enough Espeak and NV Speech player do because Espeak has mapped these well in its own table. Eloquence? Just treats it like a questionmark. Haha, OK, it looks like there are 97 keys in the current data.
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Joseph King

@nycki96 Nope, me neither. I just removed it from my system about 2 hours ago. Could get it back if I wanted but this is soooo much faster. A suggestion I have though is to be able to play Youtube videos from within the app. You'd probably have to get yt-dlp.exe or it's library, but this would be really neet to have for a potential down-the-road feature. Like most of the stuff I'd like to see, it's not high priority stuff, just things I think would be kinda cool.
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Xander Fwoof

it offs me piss, when someone will go at a ice cream joint thingy, will carmel do? no fuck it i'll just not order cause you don't have what I really want, and then, nothing else will satisfy it, because, while i like carmel, it is not, what I god damn god damn asked for. Hileo. I could just opt for a vanilla shake,but no Iasked, for a butterscotch mult,you have neither butterscotch, and no mult

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One of my favorite artists ever, Taylor Acorn, was involved in writing this song so of course it's good. youtu.be/4okJouEbZ_s

#newmusic #pop #rock #indie


LØLØ - 007 (Official Music Video)

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#rock #indie #pop #newmusic

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This company supplies #ICETerrorists - you know what to do, internet.
#511Tactical - #TrumpTerrorism suppliers.
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I wish that more FOSS / ethically licensed projects would be more forthright about asking for donations of help *outside tech stuff*.

There are plenty of people who value FOSS who have skills to contribute, be it legal, accounting, comms, marketing, graphic design, project management, and loads of other things, and plenty of projects which could benefit from some volunteering time in those areas.

Finding a match can be difficult, so seeing people asking for help is excellent.

#FOSS #volunteering #ProBono

#foss #volunteering #probono

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Attention all ricers: GNOME Calendar 50 will be able to use your gamer mouse's dedicated back/forward buttons to switch between the previous/next month or week, thanks to @zoeyTheWitch having implemented this very handy feature: gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-c…

#GNOMECalendar #GNOME #UX #hardware


Support for dedicated mouse / keyboard Previous / Next hardware buttons (#1494) · Issues · GNOME / gnome-calendar · GitLab

Many computer mice have back/forward (previous/next) buttons to navigate history. Those are standardized buttons, as far as I understand. Those work fine in other GNOME apps...
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I just spoke to one of those technicians whose career in radiology has them buried in a basement most of their working hours, locating and pumping out info and requests for vital information that changes people's lives for the better. I thanked them, saying "You've helped me so much, thanks for what you do". They cried. No one says thanks anymore, just gimme. Let's change that. Make someone's life better. SEE THEM.

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Putting on my storage hat…

Windows hasn’t supported native NVMe UNTIL SOON!

The hell?

It’s an open-enough standard.

People have been buying “premium” drives for years.

And all a bunch of SCSI emulation? 😳

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Announcing Native NVMe in Windows Server 2025: Ushering in a New Era of Storage Performance

We’re thrilled to announce the arrival of Native NVMe support in Windows Server 2025—a leap forward in storage innovation that will redefine what’s possible for your most demanding workloads.
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JAWS currently has a bug in it that makes Braille display users unable to properly read long lines in Paperback, or any application using wxWidgets, for that matter. When I tried to follow up on this issue three times with a Vispero contact who assured me it would be fixed in the December 2025 JAWS update, I got silence, so it's time to get louder. If you're effected by this problem, or just feel like sending a support email to Vispero to help me out, I'd much appreciate it! CC @freedomscientific

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Paperback, JAWS and reading with a Braille display

There seems to be a problem in reading long paragraphs with JAWS when using a Braille display or with speech when using the JAWS cursor or the invisible cursor. It doesn't matter whether I try to r...
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@Freedom Scientific / Vispero
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Forty years ago, 21 people gathered for the first meeting of what became the Internet Engineering Task Force or #IETF . Every day billions of people use the open standards and technologies developed in the IETF. And nearly 8000 volunteer IETF participants from around the world collaborate in more than 100 working groups evolving those open standards and making the Internet work better!

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#Internet #OpenStandards


IETF@40

Forty years ago today, 21 people gathered in San Diego, California for the first meeting of what became the Internet Engineering Task Force.
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"guy" is a chameleon pronoun. When its used singularly, it's male but when it's plural it's totally gender neutral especially in the midwest USA

a truly gender-neutral pronoun would be "fucker". Both "fucker" and "fuckers" is always gender neutral.

"What's up fuckers!!!!!" -- nobody will complain, except people you don't want to be friends with anyway

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