I would say this is a well-written apology that seems sincere and clearly lays out what mistakes were made. It seems like he was operating without malice and made some key mistakes. I hope less of these mistakes happen going forward, and I hope JeanHeyd feels better after all of this.
Podemos y Yolanda Díaz preparan las negociaciones para lograr la candidatura de unidad en tiempo récord eldiario.es/politica/yolanda-d…
Izquierda Unida ha pedido ya a todas las partes construir una alternativa para las generales: “Sumar y Yolanda Díaz son la mejor oportunidad” eldiario.es/politica/izquierda…
Quedan diez días. La decisión de Pedro Sánchez de adelantar las elecciones ha hecho saltar por los aires la estrategia de Yolanda Díaz para tratar de recomponer la unidad del espacio a la izquierda del PSOE alrededor de Sumar.
První fotografie je z 20.07.2011, někdo ji nechal jako čtyřtýdenní v krabici od bot před útulkem. Včera skoro přesně po dvanácti letech, jsme se s ní museli rozloučit. Můj třetí pes a zatím nejlepší co jsem měl. Určitě už v psím nebi vytahuje kameny z potoka.
Don't know if that's another pop-sci, but a fun read anyway! An OpenAI alum is building a robot butler for your home | Sifted sifted.eu/articles/robot-butle…
(Spoiler: trusting your contributors works)
Some years ago, I polished up and released an abandoned project for storing financial data in Django.
It let you declare “Money” fields on your models, dealing with proper storage and currencies for you.
Štěpka vyráběná z klestí je výnosnou surovinou pro elektrárny a teplárny, její cena jen v loňském roce na českém trhu dvojnásobně stoupla. Hlavním tuzemským dodavatelem klestí jsou Lesy ČR patřící pod ministerstvo zemědělství.
🏥 💉 👶 Výzkum a vývoj léčby Prader-Willi syndromu. Jedná se o neuroendokrinní onemocnění, v jehož důsledku tělo není schopno produkovat celou řadu hormonů nezbytných pro jeho správné fungování.
Jmenuji se Teodor Goldstein a je mi 17 měsíců. Narodil jsem se se vzácným onemocněním Prader-Willi syndrom (PWS), na které bohužel v současné době neexistuje lék.
⌨️ Nielsen Norman Group research on how screen-reader users type on and control mobile devices
“Summary: Users who are blind or have low vision prefer dictation over typing with a keyboard whenever possible. Screen readers on touchscreen devices are restricted to a well-defined set of gestures which makes interaction more challenging than on computers.”
Screen-reader users prefer dictation over typing with a keyboard. Screen readers on touchscreen devices are restricted to certain gestures which makes interaction more challenging than on computers.
So I suppose I'm an outlier yet again. I hate talking to computers slightly more than I hate typing on touch screens, I think. More generally, I consider speaking to be a sort of ... effort. I can get out of bed and type up very articulate emails, while my speech is still at a sort of caveman level. Inarticulate grunts. Ugg need caffeine. Ugg need wake-up juice to make Ugg go. I wish I knew why that was.
I have a Lightning to USB adapter for the iPhone so I can plug in a physical keyboard. I own an Atreus, a very tiny mechanical keyboard with 46 full-sized keys. The Atreus fits in my man-bag, or even in a sufficiently large pants pocket.
@chris I dislike talking to computers because it doesn't have the level of precision, and of understanding how the computer actually handles my input, that I prefer. Of course, the same applies to a lesser degree to touch gestures. There's touchscreen Braille input, at least on the iPhone, but since I'm low-vision and my VI teachers didn't focus enough on making me learn Braille, I can still dictate faster, when I have to compose a text on my phone. Might be worth starting to practice though.
#Coruña | Informan os museos históricos da cidade que a partir deste próximo fin de semana, e ata o mes de setembro, poderase visitar o Castro de Elviña todos os sábados e domingos ás 12h00.
👉 Reservas de praza para coñecer o xacemento no teléfono do Museo Arqueolóxico: 981189850.
The Document Foundation (TDF) is the non-profit entity behind LibreOffice, providing infrastructure and support for the community that makes the suite.
In plane tiling, it is completely standard that tiles may be reflected; nevertheless, some people were dissatisfied that the aperiodic hat monotile requires reflections to tile the plane. In our new preprint, we present the Spectre, the first example of a vampire einstein: an aperiodic monotile that tiles the plane without reflections. arxiv.org/abs/2305.17743
The recently discovered "hat" aperiodic monotile mixes unreflected and
reflected tiles in every tiling it admits, leaving open the question of whether
a single shape can tile aperiodically using translations and rotations alone.
I'm Daniel Stenberg, maintainer and lead developer in the curl project. I stream curl related stuff. Release presentations, curl development and related topics.
Hoy en el BOE tenemos lo que ya sabemos todos, el RD 400/2023 que disuelve las cortes. En el anexo está la división provincial, y se indica también en el cuerpo que la sesión constitutiva de las Cortes Generales será el 17 de agosto.
Como temas de menor interés (para mi) certamen artístico "Amigos de los Animales", premios para jubilados del Ministerio de Transportes, convocatorias para hidrógeno verde, y en el plano más negativo una sucesión de un título nobiliario.
Desde luego estaría bien que los baremos estuvieran actualizados a los criterios... vamos a decir clínicos. En todo caso esto si mal no recuerdo es un acuerdo de la comisión de coordinación y seguimiento de la valoración del grado de discapacidad, que no sé si tiene competencia para tocar temas de baremos.
Ahora el gobierno está en funciones así que no cuentes con RDs para nada que no sea urgente. Y después... ya veremos. La verdad el ministerio de derechos sociales me ha decepcionado un poco.
Asuntos económicos: buena gestión, alguna iniciativa audaz. Trabajo: excelentes iniciativas, gestión aceptable pero mejorable. Transición ecológica: alguna buena iniciativa, falta de ambición, gestión mejorable. Asuntos exteriores: buenos resultados pero malas prioridades, sobre todo fuera de la UE. Justicia: manifiestamente mejorable. Defensa: caca. Hacienda: aceptable, pero con errores y demasiado restrictiva. Interior: caca. Transportes: buena gestión, alguna gran idea. Educación: mejorable. Industria: falta agilidad en la gestión y política industrial demasiado tímida. Agricultura: mediocre. Presidencia: aceptable. Política territorial: aceptable. Cultura: se pudo y debió hacer más, pero se ha avanzado. Sanidad: el gran marrón de la legislatura. Dadas las circunstancias hay que aprobarlo, pero pudo ser mejor. Derechos sociales: mucho más continuista, demasiada inercia. Ciencia: creo que se hicieron cosas útiles pero tendrá que verse a más largo plazo. Igualdad: alguna buena iniciativa, pero también mejorable. Incapacidad de negociación. Consumo: buenas iniciativas pero no lo bastante ágil y reactivo a los cambios. Inclusión: sus más y sus menos, en global creo que mejor de lo que esperaba. Universidades: También necesito verlo a más largo plazo.
Hi everyone! My friend @ZBennoui has been having fun exploring Piper, and oh no, he’s gotten me into it too! Tonight, I trained my first really good model based on the RMS dataset from Festival. It is a US male voice. It has a more mono tone sound, which some of you may prefer. I have put it in a Google Drive folder along with Zach’s Scottish Female voice. We thought it would be fun to create a shared folder where both of us could distribute our models. More voices will be coming soon!!! Enjoy. drive.google.com/drive/folders…
Debian Reunion Hamburg is slowly coming to an end with two last days of sunshine, cleanup and further hacking and discussions. Safe travels to everyone and looking forward to a Mini DebConf in Berlin 2024! wiki.debian.org/DebianEvents/d…
Over the past year, I've been experimenting with neural text to speech in various forms. I have done hours of experimentation and research, training models and getting varying results along the way. Some of you may have heard of Piper, an open source synthesizer and add on for NVDA that can be trained by anyone. It is currently in active development, and I have been there from the beginning, testing and evaluating the various versions. For years, I have had a goal to create a high-quality voice that is truly usable by a screen reader user, and yesterday I managed to achieve this. I'm really excited to share Alba, a female Scottish English voice. I'm considering this a beta phase, and I'm looking for feedback to make improvements as needed. Please note that you will most likely get an error upon installation, however the voice should still show up to NVDA, and I'm working on fixing this as soon as possible. Link to Piper: github.com/rhasspy/piper/tree/… Link to addon: github.com/mush42/piper-nvda?r… Link to Alba: drive.google.com/file/d/1wZHuI… #TTS #AI #ScreenReader #Piper
This add-on implements a speech synthesizer driver for NVDA using [Piper](https://github.com/rhasspy/piper). - GitHub - mush42/piper-nvda at building.open-home.io
@ppatel Thank you so much, that really means a lot. I completely agree with you, responsiveness is not there yet, but it is currently being worked on. I'm hoping in time we will get to a point where it's quite usable, but even now I'm surprised that it works at all, considering that ML speech synthesis has been restricted to the cloud up until fairly recently. I also want to stress that this was very easy to train, and I plan on creating a guide to help people make their own models in almost any language they would like.
@ppatel Absolutely, I'm excited to do it! Just to give some perspective, I took about 1200 audio files from a dataset by CSTR, Downsampled them to 22,050HZ wave files, transcribe them using open AI whisper and put them into the correct format, then trained for about three hours. I did not have any input during the training process, this is the raw result from Piper.
@ppatel Out of curiosity how much material did you need for this (as in how many hours was your training data) and what computer did you use for training? Got a friend who is interested in trying to train a Polish voice as a test, perhaps using the raw data we have from training Polish RHVoices.
@pitermach Hi Piotr, I only used around 59 minutes of training audio. The entire CSTR dataset is around four hours, but I wanted to start with less just to see how it would perform. The great thing about machine learning is depending on the model architecture you choose you can get away with very little data and still get good results, so it's great for low resource languages. I unfortunately do not have an Nvidia GPU to take advantage of, I'm on macOS, so I used Google Colab pro to train the model, before exporting it to the onyx runtime to work with Piper.
All right, thanks. Sounds like training it on RHVoice data might be very practical then because the scripts they use for that are about 2 hours of audio. I'll definitely look forward to your guide then because the voice you generated sounds great
Have you experimented with RHVoice? A few people got it to work with Polish, and it has been a huge success here. The English voices aren’t terribly amazing, but it’s nothing that can’t be overcome. It’s a pain in the ass to build but the instructions are there, and if you find/record a couple hours of high-quality audio, you can make a really decent, responsive voice.
@miki Yes, I attempted to train Rh voice models a few months ago, however the process is quite finicky and hard to get good results with. HMM based TTS seems to be incredibly particular about the quality of your audio, and even if the speech is clean you can still have problems. It also seems to take a very long time to train, and I at least was unable to get anything usable out of it. I may try again in the future, but for now ML is my main focus as I believe this is a far superior technology currently. If someone could maybe do a demo of training RH, that would be incredibly helpful as I would like to try it again at some point.
This cleans up a couple of minor issues using Piper on an M1 Mac. In CMakeLists.txt, two of the flags cannot be used because Mac OS's gcc is actually clang. /proc/self/exe also does not exist, so...
@miki Oh I understand now. I have an m1 pro Mac here, however I use my intel machine to test as there is no synth driver for VoiceOver yet. I'm not really sure how to help unfortunately.
History shows that patriarchy is not natural, nor does it begin with fathers in families. According to Angela Saini, author of the new book THE PATRIARCHS, patriarchy begins with state power, and slowly works its way into families. In addition, men did not gain power over women by being "stronger." They did it by setting up networks of political support -- and by systematically dismantling support for women. This recent LSE lecture from Saini is a fascinating listen. podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/…
Así queda el Congreso si se aplican los resultados de las municipales a unas elecciones generales
Hemos aplicado la ley d'Hont a los resultados de las municipales en cada provincia. El ejercicio tiene sus límites y condicionantes, pero arroja un escenario muy abierto eldiario.es/politica/resultado…
El PP sería la principal fuerza del Congreso de los Diputados si se trasponen los resultados de las elecciones municipales de este domingo a nivel estatal.
Poslal jsem XXXX Kč našim dobrovolníkům na Ukrajině a ty bys měl taky.Proč?To zjistíš tady:Transparentní účet PhoenixuCZK:24022044/2010https://ib.fio.cz/ib/t...
Anyone here speak English, has office-level IT skills, and wants to work at US $25 per hour in customer service? Any location worldwide. But, it's initially only 10 hours a week. Ad extended to 2 June. @opencollective does good stuff. My instance's fundraising gets handled there, along with support for thousands and thousands of grassroots things. opencollective.com/hiring
Las trabajadoras de Emtesport, la subcontrata del Servicio de Deportes de la UAM, llevan 6 días en huelga, desde el 12 de diciembre. Exigen subidas salariales lineales y acordes con la inflación y la internalización del servicio, entre otras cosas.
Octavo día de huelga indefinida en deportes de la UAM explotado por Emtesport. Octavo día sin piscina, ni actividades, ni clases de profesorado, polideportivo cerrado.
Después de 13 días de huelga y ante el parón de actividad en el campus en las próximas dos semanas, la asamblea decidió ayer suspender cautelarmente la huelga indefinida a partir de hoy. Durante estos 13 días han recibido muchas muestras de solidaridad y también aportaciones a la caja de resistencia.
31 días de huelga indefinida de las trabajadoras de Emtesport, la subcontrata del Servicio de Deportes de la UAM. Así puedes solidarizarte con ellas. La lucha sigue.
Se me pasó contaros esto pero después de 135 días de huelga indefinida, desde el 12 de diciembre, finalmente las trabajadoras de Emtesport GANARON a la empresa. Lo más importante es que consiguieron un aumento salarial lineal de 1752 euros anuales a jornada completa. Pero también otras muchas mejoras, como el aumento lineal de 1 euro diario del plus de transporte y la contratación directa del profesor de boxeo subcontratado, que estaba cedido ilegalmente.
Esto no habría sido posible sin la solidaridad de otres trabajadores que aportaron a la caja de resistencia, sin la que no se habría podido resistir una huelga tan larga.
* KryptEY: Keyboard for secure E2EE communication * Music Player Lite: elegant and light weight music player * URL to PDF Converter: convert any web page into a PDF file
This is a repository of apps to be used with F-Droid. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github).
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@FreakyFwoof Man, my Christing nearly 77 year old grandmother can't go 5 christ forsaken microseconds without fuck forsaken facebook. Drives me batshit. I tell her repeatedly I don't give a rat's arse what's happening on goddamn facebook.
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