OTD 1985: #SunMicrosystems announces the Sun-3 workstation family. True 32 bit computing based on Motorola MC68020. My personal favorite was the 3/160, and my home machine for many years. I wrote *so* many drivers for this machine. #Suntember
Amazon is allowing Audible narrators to clone themselves with AI The company says performers will retain creative control over their AI voice and will be compensated on a ‘title-by-title basis.’ theverge.com/2024/9/9/24239903…
New #Biden Administration Rules Aim to Hold Insurers Accountable for #MentalHealth Care Coverage ==
The regulations will force health insurance plans to collect and report more data on how they limit and deny mental health claims. ProPublica’s reporting has found that insurers regularly shortchange patients seeking treatment.
A privacy flaw in WhatsApp, an instant messenger with over 2 billion users worldwide, is being exploited by attackers to bypass the app's "View once" feature and view messages again.
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Salut, il y a beaucoup de clients franqophone. Il vous faudrait faire un effort,s'il vous plait. Nous sommes pas tous anglo-germanophone! Nous koz kreol alors imaginez les efforts que nous faisons?
Dnes máte poslední možnost hlasovat pro svá oblíbená témata, která zazní na letošní konferenci #LinuxDays Mrkněte na to, ať víme, co vás nejvíc zajímá. linuxdays.cz/2024/hlasovani/
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For those on the beta channel, NVDA 2024.4 Beta 3 is available for testing. LibLouis has been updated fixing issues in Spanish and adding new Thai and Greek tables. There are also updates to NVDA translations. Read the full info and download at: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2024-4b… (Note that Beta 2 released last week included the add-on update check fix included in 2024.3.1 today).
@garo I must admit I don't use regular add-ons much, let alone incompatible ones - From memory, I think you still get the warning - did you recently update to 2024.3 and /or 2024.3.1 - that might have been a good opportunity confirm exactly what happens.
@QuincePie that's just the commits that end up in the source repository. PRs can have numerous that then might end up just a single one in the final merge. We don't think we can even count commits done in PRs properly if we wanted.
Motivo de orgullo: los costes de construcción de infraestructura ferroviaria de alta velocidad son muy pequeños en España. El último informe de INECO lo confirma: 17,7 millones de euros por kilómetro, frente a una media de 45,5. Motivo de preocupación: cada vez menos jóvenes estudian ingenierías, con una bajada de la demanda del 17 % […]
@agocke @malwareminigun OpenSSL has a weirdly tight grip of its users in spite of OpenSSL more or less abusing their users over and over. Probably to a large degree I'm guessing a lock-in effect of their GIANT API that is also weird and hard to copy.
Storm Dragon pushed changes to the testing branch of the audiogame-manager project For games that require steamcmd, you can now place the files manually if you want.
NV Access is pleased to announce that version 2024.3.1 of NVDA, the free screen reader for Microsoft Windows, is now available for download. We encourage all users to upgrade to this version.
This is a patch release to fix a bug with the automatic add-on update notification. When automatically checking for add-on updates, NVDA no longer freezes on poor connections.
Glad to share with you this sample of the second iteration of OptiSpeech-TTS. In this iteration I fixed some issues related to punctuation pauses and pitch intonation. Needless to say that the model generates quality speech while being very fast and efficient. Thanks again to @pneumasolutions for their continued support.
awesome! except, is it only me, or the voice has a certain pronounced hissing issue? also, there's a lot of noise there, similar to what one would get with flite or festival voices. O yeah, it didn't pronounce the a in accessibility at the near beginning of the recording, which makes me wonder, how will pronunciation issues like these get fixed in this AI tts paradigm? Using more traditional methods, rules could be written to the phonemiser to compensate, like the ibm tts community dictionary for example, but with this, are you gonna have to retrain the entire model, or a significant part of it?
@esoteric_programmer Regarding the audible artifacts, this is half way in training. Most of them will be gone when training reaches step 1000000. Regarding pronunciation, phonemic rules can be written to enhance pronunciation same as with other TTS systems. Also, this particular model is very controllable. You can elongate phonemes, change the pitch and add stress at the phoneme level if you want.
@esoteric_programmer It does use that. But I'm working on a text preprocessing layer that can accept user dictionaries and apply changes at the phonemization and inference stages.
@esoteric_programmer Yes. This is a custom architecture. The baseline is JETS, but I augmented it with several components from the latest research in the field. Keep in mind that this has only 13M parameters, while Piper has 23M parameters. And OptiSpeech is at least an order of magnitude faster than Piper.
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