@BTyson Yep! the goal is both: modernize NVSpeechPlayer and steadily improve the language quality over time. The big change is that language behavior is now mostly "data-driven" through YAML packs instead of being locked into the old Python runtime pipeline. That means dialect fixes and language improvements don’t require rebuilding the DLL. people can contribute and iterate on packs much faster.
About the phoneme editor vs the NVDA add-on: they’re not separate. The editor works with the same packs the NVDA add-on loads. So you can either:
point the editor at the packs folder inside your NVDA add-on, or
edit packs elsewhere and then drop them into the add-on.
So any phoneme or language-pack changes you make in the editor can be used by NVDA immediately, as long as NVDA is loading that same packs folder.
For intonation: yes, within the limits of what the frontend supports. The editor lets you change the same kinds of timing and pitch/intonation rules that are described in the README (stress scaling, stop closures, segment boundaries, clause intonation shapes, etc.). If something isn’t expressible in the YAML model, then it would require an engine/frontend code change - but a lot of the practical “speech feel” is already in the pack settings and intonation sections.
Happy Martin Luther King Jr day. He said so many profound things and taught us so many valuable lessons, but this is the quote that resonates strongest with me. To me, it’s even more important than ever when we all have the potential to be keyboard warriors and spread global disharmony with a few key presses. But in any aspect of life, they are words to keep in mind when we feel we have been wronged and the poison of vengeance is pulsing through our veins.
"Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction."
It's the year 2046.
The only two remaining political parties are Accept and Ask Me Later.
Everyone is losing.
reshared this
Si he solicitado [el alta de] asistencia sanitaria a une cónyugue, alrededor de cuantos días laborales se puede demorar [en aparecer como beneficiarie]?
Pregunto esto para españa.
Compartid porfi. Si me dais cifras de 2025 o cercanas me sirve, para hacerme una idea de como está el panorama.
me refiero a lo siguiente:
doy de alta a une cónyugue como beneficiarie, y quiero saber cuanto se demora en el le den el alta para que me aparezca en la lista de beneficiaries
I watched the first two episodes of Starfleet Academy, after consciously trying to stay out of the Star Trek fandom's catastrophising about it, as well as avoiding the obvious attempts at pre-emptively shit on it by the chuds, and I have some thoughts about the series.
I don't know if this effort will pan out, and we're going to get a long running series with a rotating cast going farther into the future, like the showrunners seem to indicate. At this point, just like with Discovery, I value a lot more a valiant effort even if that may ultimately fall short, than a safe bet on whatever grimdark slop they'll give us next if things don't change.
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This is the latest development at the start of the year: Mia and Mil, two new voices to reproduce texts in Luxembourgish as faithfully as possible. Come and see how you can help us get to grips with them.Digital accessibility portal of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
RE: mas.to/@AccessibilityLU/115921…
Here's one of the projects that has kept us really busy these past six months: developing a Luxembourgish text-to-speech system for screen readers used by blind people.
We hope you like the result!
Many thanks to our partners Ministry for Digitalisation, Zenter fir d'Lëtzebuerger Sprooch, Centre pour le développement des compétences relatives à la vue, LouderPages and to all the contributors of the RHvoice project.
Attached: 1 image 🗣️ Welcome Mia and Mil, two new voices designed to read texts in Luxembourgish using screen readers. They are making progress, but sometimes still struggle a little with Dicks' language.Accessibility Luxembourg (mas.to)
Dear everybody:
Everything is so much easier to understand, once you realize that the Gold-foil-King is a Mafioso, who only know mafioso methods, and only use mafioso methods.
The letter to the .no PM is classical mafia:
"Nice country you have there, pity if something happened to it. Better think careful about who gets those peace-prices, capisce ?"
EU needs to stop pussying around, and go full in and stand up to the bully.
If not now, when ?
Jonathan
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