Here's my latest update on Newton, the #Wayland-native, #Flatpak-friendly #accessibility project for the modern #FreeDesktop ecosystem, developed as part of @gnome and funded by @sovtechfund. It's not ready for production yet, but this blog post includes a demo video and links to GNOME OS and Flatpak runtime builds you can try. As a bonus, because I'm integrating #AccessKit into #GTK, GTK apps will finally have #a11y on Windows and macOS. blogs.gnome.org/a11y/2024/06/1…
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Børge
in reply to Matt Campbell • • •Awesome! This is incredibly needed! Thank you!
Any thoughts on when the voice stop hurting, though? I think if I had to listen to that thing all day my ears would start bleeding pretty quickly :/
I understand that is probably not your area, but maybe you have some insight into what work is being done there?
Matt Campbell
in reply to Børge • • •@forteller Ha, I wondered if someone would complain about the use of eSpeak NG in the demo.
The Spiel project (project-spiel.org/), which also got some STF funding, is working on making it easy to install voices as Flatpak apps, and on distributing better voices. But that's not yet available on GNOME OS. So eSpeak NG was it.
Spiel: A Speech Framework for the Free Desktop and Beyond
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in reply to Matt Campbell • • •Sorry for bursting in on this fantastic stuff you're doing and demoing with a complaint! I just don't want my blind brothers and sisters in Linux/Gnome to also go deaf, you know? 😉
Thanks again! Happy to hear that there's work ongoing on the voice too!
Matt Campbell
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