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#FastSM 0.3.0 is now available! This is a pretty big release, and contains all of the changes between 0.2.2 and now. Full changelog below, use your open URL hotkey if you wish to skip this.

Improved image viewer
The app now includes a much better, and actually working, image viewer, which replaces the image viewer which would appear when you press view image in the view post dialog with an image in the post. The new image viewer provides the ability to see all images in a post, as well as get AI image descriptions (see below).

AI image descriptions
You can now get AI descriptions for images in posts. Workflow: first, set up your GPT/Gemini API key, whichever one/ones you want to use, in the AI tab of the settings dialog. Set the service and model you wish to use in the combo box, and tweak the prompt to your liking. Next, on a post with an image, you can view the image/images in the post in a few different ways. The easiest is through the context menu/view image. Other ways include the view post dialog, or the global shortcut, control win alt V by default. Next, you are put in a dialog containing all of the images in the post, which you can move between with the arrows. On each image, there is an edit field with the current description of the image, if one is provided. If you tab, you will eventually find a get AI description button, which when pressed, will kick off the process of getting the AI description. This process may take a bit, depending on your model and service combination. It will then replace the description with the provided AI description.

Mac
FastSM has been able to run on Mac from source for a bit, but this is the first version of FastSM to provide a working, runnable MacOS build.

Audio Player
FastSM now has an audio player, in addition to just playing audio in audio posts. The audio player can be called up by pressing control shift A in the main window, or control win shift A in the invisible interface. In the audio player, you can press up and down arrows to change media volume, as well as left/right to seek. The media volume persists between audio files.
In addition to all of this, the audio player has two settings. One to have the audio player automatically come up when audio starts playing, and another to stop audio from playing when the audio player is closed.

Other audio improvements
You can now set a per account soundpack volume. You can either do this by adjusting the volume in the normal way, and it will only now adjust for the focused account, or you can use the new soundpack volume slider in the account options dialog.

Dark Mode
Add a very hacky/experimental dark mode support in the advanced tab of the app.

Spell Check
It is now possible to check spelling on a post or reply you are writing, with the new spell check button in the new post dialog.

Confirmations
It is now possible to enable confirmations for different toggle actions. For example, you may want a confirmation when you unfollow someone, so that you don't do it accidentally. In the program options dialog, there is now a new confirmations tab where you can enable individual confirmations for things such as favorite, unfavorite, boost, unboost, follow, unfollow.

Other additions/bugfixes
Add enable/disable notifications buttons in the user viewer dialog. This will make Mastodon send a notification to your notifications buffer every time a user with notifications enabled posts.
Add a feature where you can have the app only use a single API call on initial timeline loads.
Add a global shortcut for the update profile option, control win shift U.
Fix quoting. Quoting now works correctly in all cases.
Fix a bug where media descriptions did not show for boosted posts.
Fix a bug where you couldn't unschedule a scheduled post from the scheduled posts timeline.
Fix a bug which meant you couldn't call up the scheduled posts timeline.
Fix the title of conversation buffers when you load a conversation from a boosted post.
Fix deleting bookmarks.
Fix bugs with user selection when loading timelines/profiles.
Fix search timeline errors.
Fix pinned sound in user timelines.
Fix a 404 error when loading user timelines on app startup.
Fix various visual issues with the app.

Windows: github.com/masonasons/FastSM/rā€¦
Mac: github.com/masonasons/FastSM/rā€¦

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"Will ICE Ignite a Mass Strike in Minnesota?"

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Will ICE Ignite a Mass Strike in Minnesota?

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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 Ģƒ 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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@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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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.

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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-cā€¦

#GNOMECalendar #GNOME #UX #hardware


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