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SpeechPlayer update: Huge one.
This update removes all the "frame:" settings from the voice dialog. If you liked them, toggle " exposeExtraParams = False
" to true in the driver's file. These are fun settings to play with and make it squeak in weird ways, but also, it's 47 sliders, and this way we only add the 16 for language settings.
- new: settings no longer say "langpack:" but have human understandable names. This should make it easier to know what does what.
- New: Croatian language. If Croatian sounds off, please suggest fixes to HR.YAML
- new: Engine setting, segmentBoundarySkipVowelToLiquid That new setting only affects the boundary gap we insert when stitching two separate chunks (two separate “say” calls / queue items).
- new setting: semivowelOffglideScale. Useful where you want the glide to join better with the vowel in your language, test with different values (default is 1.) Added in language editor only.
- Fixed: The driver works on NVDA 2026.1 again, fixed to set argtypes and restype right after initialization for Espeak phonemizer.
- Language updates to Portuguese (thanks @clv1), Polish (thank you @patricus). English glides should be less noticeable and more smooth.
eurpod.com/synths/nvSpeechPlay…
@Cleverson @patricus
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Tamas G

@spacepup lol I always tell people to experiment, if you can send me your packs folder so I can also hear it and judge how it sounds better, well, even nicer. LOL. That's why I made this pack system, it makes it very easy to zip up the packs folder and just send it as a small file, or just like some people here have, tell me what value they changed to what and how it made it sound for them, then I usually will fold it into the main pack if it's really a nicer sound. That's what I'd really like from this, a community-driven sound. But it'll take time, which is why I built the phoneme editor. Speaking of which, I have to update it with the new values we added to the engine, gosh. Ah well, not hard.
@Spacedog
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Tamas G

@spacepup oh gosh I know, especially in a formant synth, I think we do have a good sound for it now in foreign languages but it'll get better. Once someone mentioned it was sounding more like a Z though that could actually clue me in on which way to tune it to make it slightly rolled. I definitely know ESpeak didn't get that one right until like the mid-2000s or later.
@Spacedog

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🇺🇸 We were asked for this in the past, and now it was done: our Liberapay account has been revived, find it at liberapay.com/IzzyOnDroid/

As @Liberapay has no option to upload a project avatar (or I haven't found it), and we're not using any of the hard-coded services, I hope you forgive us keeping my personal one in there for now. Should a change become possible, we'll of course update accordingly!


IzzyOnDroid's profile - Liberapay

The IzzyOnDroid team maintains the repository for F/LOSS (Free/Libre Open Source Software) Android apps launched by Izzy in 2015/2016, which has since become quite well-known …
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@Liberapay

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Kuuntelen tosi vähän musiikkia paristakin syystä, mutta joskus lenkillä Vorssan Suvi-iltaan kasattu soittolista auttaa ryytyneenä jaksamaan. Listalla on 99 % uudempaa tradia ja bluegrassia eli lajeja, joita kestän ylipäätään kuunnella, mutta seassa on jokunen nostalgianumero ja raitoja, joiden bpm sopii omaan kadenssiin erityisen hyvin.

Tänään tipahti peräkkäin Les Misin Do You Hear the People Sing ja perään Elina Salo alkoi vetää Kolmea iloista rosvoa :’-D

#luontoliikunta

#luontoliikunta
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J 🏳️‍🌈 no se yks Viitanen

Lapseton kuuntelee todellakin kotimaista lastenmusiikkia, koska täällä tehdään järkyttävän hyvää lastenmusiikkia. Vaikka joku Freija, Mutaveijarit, Mimmien fantastisen kaoottinen sovitus vanhasta Hirsilaulusta tai Lastenmusiikkiorkesteri Ammuun kaunis versio Kimalaisten kehtolaulusta, jota en saa kuunnella liian usein, koska jokin Mannerin tekstin tässä versiossa ravistelee aivan liikaa mun olematonta sieluani.

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RE: mastodon.social/@droidify/1159…

Very excited to see #Droidify implement the #IzzyOnDroid download statistics!

This means 2 out of the top 3 #FDroid clients now show download statistics for apps downloaded from IzzyOnDroid. Hopefully this convinces more repositories to adopt this!

The part I love most is the different directions Droidify and Neo Store took it. Droid-ify went for simple, just showing the total amount of downloads, while Neo Store went for detailed graph.

What's your preference? Simplicity or detail? :)

Droid-ify

2026-01-21 16:02:31

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Droid-ify v0.6.8 Hotfix :psyduck:

Fixed:
- Apk file integrity check failing
- Download stats data validation
- Performance in apps list

Full changelog available here: github.com/Droid-ify/client/re…

#droidify



Release Release v0.6.8 Hotfix · Droid-ify/client

Fixed: Apk file integrity check failing Download stats data validation Performance in apps list Full Changelog: v0.6.7...v0.6.8
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#fdroid #Droidify #izzyondroid

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Vanadium version 144.0.7559.90.0 released

Changes in version 144.0.7559.90.0:

  • update to Chromium 144.0.7559.90
  • extend upstream motion sensors toggle with a per-site toggle (Vanadium already had the global toggle disabled by default)
  • disable autofill server support (already disabled by Vanadium Config 148)
  • extend support for supplementary language/regional content filters to a larger set (Arabic, Bulgarian, Spanish, French, German, Hebrew, Indian, Indonesian, Italian, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Dutch, Nordic, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Vietnamese and Chinese)

A full list of changes from the previous release (version 144.0.7559.76.1) is available through the Git commit log between the releases.

This update is available to GrapheneOS users via our app repository and will also be bundled into the next OS release. Vanadium isn't yet officially available for users outside GrapheneOS, although we plan to do that eventually. It won't be able to provide the WebView outside GrapheneOS and will have missing hardening and other features.


Comparing 144.0.7559.76.1...144.0.7559.90.0 · GrapheneOS/Vanadium

Privacy and security enhanced releases of Chromium for GrapheneOS. Vanadium provides the WebView and standard user-facing browser on GrapheneOS. It depends on hardening in other GrapheneOS reposito...
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#grapheneos

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State of Accessibility on Linux, 2026:

Users: Wayland broke accessibility.

Wayland: Not our problem, talk to the compositor.

KDE & Gnome: Expose what we need for accessibility, plz?

Wayland: Security risk. No.

Factorio dev: This compromise?

Wayland: Ok, fine...

Also Wayland: Actually, no.

User: *researches how to grow new eyeballs* It'll be solved faster.

#linux #accessibility #wayland

#Accessibility #linux #Wayland

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Droid-ify v0.6.8 Hotfix :psyduck:

Fixed:
- Apk file integrity check failing
- Download stats data validation
- Performance in apps list

Full changelog available here: github.com/Droid-ify/client/re…

#droidify


Release Release v0.6.8 Hotfix · Droid-ify/client

Fixed: Apk file integrity check failing Download stats data validation Performance in apps list Full Changelog: v0.6.7...v0.6.8
GitHub
#Droidify

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Face the facts:
AI is here to stay. Don't like it? You anti? Sorry but, bye Felicia. This stuff's existed for years now, it just wasn't so exposed. And it isn't going to receed. It'll continue to build. Your anti-barriers shall crumble. Your computer will be artifcialified, and if you don't like it, might as well use ancient ones. Even those processors! Wonder why prices are rocketing up? AI. Run as much as you like. But it'll catch up. It's everywhere. It's been everywhere. That won’t change.🤖
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tunmi13

@draeand Most of that was me screwing around, but from a serious perspective... yes. We don't know what's truly going to happen. There are theories, hypotheses, conspiracies, that sort. What we do know however, is that it is altering the balance. What was once locked in a box has been unleashed, and is flying high in the sky. The more serious part of my ridiculous post is that we're nearing that boundary where AI is sort of the new norm, and only so much can be done to suppress it.
@Ethin Probst

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I really love this one bug where Firefox dev tools' right-click Inspect Element button works reliably for a bit, then inexplicably stops and pulls up the browser console instead, meaning the item doesn't actually inspect the element. It pulls up the browser console input area instead, which is of course what I wanted to do in the first place when trying to inspect an element.

Related, I like this other bug where tabbing from the browser console switches focus between the text input and console messages, but shift-tab lives in its own world with its own unique list of elements, navigating instead through the console messages area and what looks to be a long list of CSS selectors and styles. I tried using this to reach the element inspector but can't do that either.

Becoming less and less apologetic about my AI use by the day. Want me to not use the water-and-power-guzzling mechanoid? Don't make it so difficult to use every basic tool that I have to ask another tool to use it for me.

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Trump threat leads Greenland to release ‘crisis’ guidelines

ctvnews.ca/world/article/green…

We need the same here. If the Hummers roll in.


Greenland releases ‘crisis’ guidelines as Trump threat looms

Greenland’s government unveiled a new brochure on Wednesday offering advice to the population in the event of a “crisis” in the territory, which U.S. President Donald Trump has repeatedly vowed to seize from ally Denmark.
AFP Staff (CTVNews)

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During the early pandemic, everyone was using online tools for lessons, work, & events. As soon as hegemons wanted not just "essential workers" but everyone back at the grindstone, the accessibility that online can offer was yanked back from disabled ppl.

We warned at the time that the lesson to take from how "horrible" people thought online schooling was was to *improve* it. That the years of ableist underinvestment in creative accessible online tools & training for presenters/teachers was largely to blame. Abled ppl ignored this or wrote op-eds saying online was inherently bad.

Just this week alone, we've heard how schools in Minnesota are trying to instruct students online and doctors are doing telemedicine because of ICE kidnappers. A rail crash in Catalunya resulted in a university cancelling exams because students can't commute to school.

Even if you're naïve enough to assume there will only be one pandemic, there are other reasons for accessibility.

#Ableism #Accessibility #EmergencyPreparedness

#Accessibility #ableism #emergencypreparedness

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Reading about #Nvidia CEO crying about people not liking #AI, though it was a good time to recover this historic piece of art from the Copyright wars of the start of the century. Cc'ing @pluralistic

Original at flickr.com/photos/akma/9208227…

A Copyleft logo with wings. Above it, yellow font over red background, a sentence that says: your failed business model is not my problem

Business Model

Paul Beard heard Meg’s request (and my echo) and leapt into action. . . . .
Flickr
#AI #nvidia @Cory Doctorow
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In episode 1 million and 1 of Google breaking accessibility, someone decided to slap aria hidden on basically the entire page on google drive public link pages, but here's the weird thing, only in Firefox. I don't know if chromium and Safari browsers just have a workaround just for this kind of developer/AI stupidity and bypass it and firefox doesn’t, or if something in google's code only breaks this on firefox.

Either way recovering out of this is fun. I have to use AXSHammer to kill all aria hidden. But, this doesn't always work. If I get lucky and the right thing gets focused Shift+F10 will give me the firefox context menu and I can do it. If not, well, just gotta keep refreshing the page until it does because due to the whole invisible to the screen reader problem NVDA/VoiceOver won't let me bring the mouse to anywhere useful to pop up the menu.

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Sarah dreams of beans

If the most inspiring parts of Carney's speech are "facing reality" and "strength through cooperation" I have such good news! Neoliberals like him always co-opt their inspiring rhetoric from *actual* liberatory movements, and you could be getting your inspo straight from the source. See if land back, mutual aid, prison abolition, anti-fascism, community self-defense, labour solidarity, or privacy rights movements get you anywhere
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Sarah dreams of beans

If the parts of Carney's speech that inspire you are about building up national power at the expense of ethics and ideals, maybe spend some time reflecting on whether building homegrown corporate fascism would actually do anything to resist the American regime or whether that would be complying in advance and land us in the exact same place

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After a good 30 minutes, I've gotten Emacspeak working rather well with mastodon.el. Goodness all those Emoji. For now, n and p read next/prev post well, and t lets you know you're doing new toot. And that's all the making stuff I can do right now.

Dropbox link: dropbox.com/scl/fi/zz4632vjlau…

#Emacs #foss #emacspeak #accessibility #blind

#Accessibility #foss #emacs #blind #emacspeak

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Happy to provide detailed documentation to NFB for escalation to Meta. This needs human review from people who understand assistive technology, and it needs to be escalated to Meta's accessibility and legal teams.
How are blind users supposed to access Threads if screen readers trigger automatic suspensions?
#Accessibility #A11y #Threads #Meta
#a11y #Accessibility #meta #threads

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Looks like @Tutanota wins in the screen reader accessibility department. Both the iOS app and the web version appear to be quite accessible with screen readers. Tested using both VoiceOver and Chromevox… I had no issues navigating the interface with either screen reader. #A11Y #Accessibility #Blind #ScreenReader #Email #Calendar #Contacts
#a11y #Accessibility #email #blind #screenreader #contacts #calendar @Tuta

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Have you ever helped people use their computers by talking to them over the phone, without seeing their screen? It can be frustrating if they tell you mostly irrelevant details that bury the important stuff.

This is the major problem with image description by AI. AI has no idea why the image was posted, so it gives irrelevant details.

Human-written image descriptions are much better at communicating an image's purpose.

More accessibility tips: fedi.tips/how-do-i-make-posts-…

#FediTips #Accessibility


How do I make my posts more accessible to blind, deaf and deafblind people on Mastodon and the Fediverse? How do I add alt texts? | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse

An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediverse
fedi.tips
#Accessibility #FediTips

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I live in a small town in Sweden. This morning I went out to my car (realising that I'd once again forgotten to lock the front door last night), drove along empty, wide roads to the nearest largeish town and parked in the brand new multistorey carpark by the railway station, where the first two hours' parking is free and the remainder of the time is very cheap.

I got out of the car without checking my surroundings, and as I leaned back in to get my bag out, I thought "In large parts of the world, I'd be asking to get mugged, or worse".

Then I walked along the clean, well-kept streets to the hospital, where I waited for less than 2 minutes for my mammography, which was completely free of charge.

This is Sweden. This is Europe. Why the FUCK are we trying to emulate, listening to, investing in or in any way having anything whatsoever to do with the utter insanity coming out of the USA?

And I don't just mean under the current, obviously barking, incumbent. I mean ever? They don't do things like we do. They don't believe in the same things that we do. This really is an us and a them situation, and we've been kidding ourselves for the last 80 years that they're like us.

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GenAI, The Snake Eating Its Own Tail: How tools like ChatGPT and Claude are destroying the ecosystems they rely on, and what to do about it ybrikman.com/blog/2026/01/21/g…

Great blog post. This one explained how Google, OpenAI and other AI companies killed the open web, which was once made of independent forums, news sites, wikis, blogs, high quality journalism websites, books, and fan fiction or art.


GenAI, The Snake Eating Its Own Tail: How tools like ChatGPT and Claude are destroying the ecosystems they rely on, and what to do about it

Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools such as ChatGPT and Claude have two superpowers. The first superpower is a boon: they can dramatically increase ...
Yevgeniy Brikman

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Hey #believeinfilm friends,

Eastman Kodak Company has just announced that it will be distributing Tri-X and Ektar!

That's great news for folks who know about Alaris and its diminishing role as a 3rd party distributor, but does that really mean cheaper film?

My findings suggest no. This is not making film cheaper right now. It's making it more expensive.

The breakdown: analog.cafe/comments/2p2r

#filmphotography #analogphotography #photography

new kodak films

Eastman Kodak Company begins self-distributing Tri-X and Ektar; I hope that doesn’t mean pricier film!

Last year, we learned that the Kodak factory shifted its film distribution from outsourcing to Kodak Alaris to doing it in-house. Today, the company announced two new films that will be sold under a new packaging.
www.analog.cafe
#photography #filmphotography #believeinfilm #analogphotography

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neat piece of invisible infrastructure: the Rust portable-atomic crate

your platform doesn’t support a particular type of atomic natively? not a problem, this crate gives you an implementation anyway

how? well there’s a global lock, you see. or, rather, 67 global locks, and which one gets used depends on the address of the atomic mod 67.

but, that’s kinda inefficient, so you wouldn’t want to use it unless it’s your only choice, right?

so they have a bunch of platform specific implementations, such as “let’s detect at runtime if cmpxchg16b is supported” or “this is a microcontroller so if we read it within one instruction we’re fine, and otherwise just disable the interrupts”

and as a result you can just use it and not really think about it, because in 99% of cases it’s gonna do the same thing as what you’d end up with if you bothered to optimize it manually

the ratio of elaborate internals to unassuming API surface is so great here you could easily blink and miss the fact that someone is pulling off heroic feats to make this happen

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Tamas G

@clv1 Technically yes.
1.
Long:
ː (U+02D0)
→ you already support this
Example: iː, aː
2.
Half-long:
ˑ (U+02D1)
Example: eˑ
3.
Extra-short:
̆ (U+0306, combining breve)
Example: ă
So technically, ̆ is the “shorten” mark. eSpeak does not emit ̆
Most IPA transcriptions omit it entirely. Linguists usually encode “shortness” as:the absence of ː, or via phoneme choice (e.g. /ɪ/ vs /iː/)
@Cleverson

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It’s interesting to me that Trump has so quickly backed off on the threat of using force in Greenland. Someone talked him off the ledge. Maybe the massing European troops raised the stakes enough for his advisors to hesitate. Maybe the generals said they would not attack a NATO member nation (a clearly illegal order). Maybe he never had military support at all, and was talking out of his ass all along. Who knows? The point is, they called his bluff, and he folded like wet napkin. I think people need to learn from this. Calling Trump’s bluffs works, especially when you team up with other communities to call his bluff together.

#kakistocracy #greenland #davos

reuters.com/business/davos/det…

#greenland #kakistocracy #davos
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