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If you're fan of #generativemusic #electronicmusic checkout of myNoise newest release :
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Today is my birthday, and thus starts the year that may contain my answer to life, the universe and everything. To celebrate, I’m selecting 12 people for the OptiLab Producer Birthday Beta. Testers receive the full JSFX free, keep the final 1.0, and help verify that the manual is clear and the presets behave well on real material. Interested? Contact me privately and tell me how you’d use it.
This will turn in to a paid product and I want it as good as it can get.

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Pocket TTS? More like possessed TTS. Listen to what happens when I perform the steps listed below:

1. Pick voice 'Fantine'.
2. Set 'End of Sentence Sensitivity' (EOS) to 100.
3. Enter Input Help with NVDA +1.
4. Try different characters repeatedly, but don't press the same key immediately, as sometimes the craziness isn't instant.
I used 0 and dash (-) for my characters, you may find plenty of others that go a bit mad. Other voices may also exhibit the same behaviour, I haven't tested yet.

If you don't have this and want to download it, go here: github.com/timonvanhasselt/poc…

Since I'm celebrating my 35th birthday today, I wanted to give you a little birthday gift. 🎉
I've launched a brand new interface for my music library! You can now download tracks in both FLAC and MP3, or grab the entire collection as a FLAC or MP3 bundle.
Hope you enjoy it! I would like also thankt to all who donated. The content is the same, I will add more stuf later. ondrosik.sk/music #cc #freemusic

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My wife is watching some films in Drama shorts app. I was just reading some articles and suddenly I heard my Piano jingle from the film. Thei used my free music. What an interesting feeling.

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I recently created and uploaded disk images of Voyetra MusiClips, which was a collection of royalty-free MIDI files that could be used for multimedia production. The files I have are from early 1991, so this predates General MIDI. They are most likely arranged for the Roland MT32.
An archive containing all the contents of the disks can be found at datajake.braillescreen.net/MID…. The disk images can be found at datajake.braillescreen.net/MID….
The box also contained a good amount of printed material, including a booklet that was in the same package as the floppy disks. I am definitely keeping this stuff around so I can have someone take a look over it in the future.

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So, I was playing with the pocket TTS addon I reposted a bit earlier today. Apparently, this is how it wants to read the 💟 emoji. This seems to happen with lots of emojis and characters. I just might have broken it. Lmao.

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New free app for my blind and low-vision friends: ElevenLabs TTS Studio — an accessible desktop app for ElevenLabs text-to-speech.

Keyboard-first and screen-reader-first: searchable voice picker, generate, play, save, history. Every control announces properly. Bring your own API key.

Built by a blind dev, tested with a real screen reader — because accessibility is the point, not an afterthought.

github.com/tonygeb23/eleven-tt…

#a11y #accessibility #NVDA #ScreenReader #TTS #OpenSource

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This is so cool! Do you have an estimated date as to when the first downloadable release will be published? Only asking because the page shows none published as of yet. I'm looking forward to trying this. Thanks for your hard work and al you do. :)
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'Don't hang up on AI scammers. Do this instead' youtu.be/lk3jCuITwcE?is=Ua2w5f…

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This was so very interesting and funny. sometimes one forgets that the people who speak the computer are actually real people. youtube.com/watch?v=AZPq1m4Ikg…

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I'm also very amused by the revelation that the reason why some automated voice bank voices sound so condescending was because the voice actor kept getting the direction to "smile more" with her voice(?) until she went into the 'asshole' register with her voice and they where like "perfect!"

It honestly highlights how uncanny corporate-approved customer service voice sound like. Corpos evidently seem to think that's what 'happy and service minded' sounds like, but it sounds like someone is making fun of you.

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Setting up a new laptop today which means wrangling Windows 11 to be less eleveny. Suggestions are welcome on tools that I should install to make my life easier.

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A lot of this won't be original and you may have heard of it, but here goes.
ExplorerPatcher, OpenShell, and Win11Debloat are my go-to tools.
Open-Shell gives you a very snappy start menu reminiscent of Windows 7, including the ability to hit tab and junk to your home folder. 0 web components, uses the Windows search index.
ExplorerPatcher gives you a quick way to change some Explorer settings, some of which can't be done as simple registry tweaks. Mine brings back the menu bar, takes a lot of junk out of the desktop/taskbar shell, and gives me old XP-style listviews. Keyboard navigation in the properties dialog is 100% fudged and a little weird; left/right arrow switches tabs and the space bar interacts with lists/comboboxes.
Win11Debloat uninstalls a whole bunch of apps, gets rid of many AI/telemetry/etc. and also gives you a quick way to turn on some common settings like file extensions in Explorer.
Two of these are in WinGet:
winget install open-shell valinet.explorerpatcher

For win11debloat, type this in a powershell. Note that this downloads a script off the internet and runs it without confirmation, so the usual "don't run things you don't trust" applies. You can presumably just access this URL and feed it to Claude.
irm "debloat.raphi.re/" | iex

I need to give the Windows 11 task manager a chance, but in case you do give it a chance and hate it, there's a version of the Windows 7 task manager floating around with an installer that replaces the built-in one.
Lastly, I turn off the lock screen, which makes Windows go straight to the logon screen instead:
slj.io/software/lockscreen_off…

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I forgot to add:
If you have done absolutely nothing with the laptop yet, and you want to stop Windows from forcing you to sign into a Microsoft account, you can press shift+f10 from the out-of-box screen to open a command prompt, and type this:
start ms-cxh:localonly
This brings up the old "Who's going to use this PC" screen and when you're done, it pretty much immediately signs you in. It skips over a lot of the introductory setup if you didn't already do it, which is mostly a good thing. Just check your privacy settings since you don't get to manually approve or reject them.
If you want to do a complete Windows reinstall, you can use the same shift+f10 shortcut and directly launch d:\setup.exe, instead of going through setup or fiddling with boot menus.
You probably don't need to do that on a Lenovo; I have the same laptop from a few generations ago, and I have never reinstalled Windows. It's pretty clean apart from Lenovo vantage.
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Got a new app.
FileDentify.
Accessible Windows file identification utility for checking what a file is from its actual contents, rather than relying only on the file name or extension.

It's a part of mine and @arfy's SendTo package but you can also download it from github: github.com/OnjLouis/FileDentif…

It was able to pull all sorts of info out of VMDK disks, Roland expansions and all sorts of other weird and wonderful things.
This all stemmed from a conversation I had recently with someone about how the Linux file command doesn't exist for windows.
I've tried to address that as best I can.
Try opening a file and then going to 'Readable Text' and well, see what happens...

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@brian I try to aim for that with every single app I put out, even the small ones. I actually tell my agents to look at Clipman and Sensor Readout source and manuals for the conventions I expect from my apps, so they feel uniform. I adopted Shift+F1 to update in Sensor Readout, then I made everything else do that, for example. Mnemonics are important (you know this of course) so having standards is so important so that if you're designing stuff to work together, it feels like it came from the same place.
Hardly need to teach you of all people to suck eggs lol.
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I'm really serious. It's a very nice app. What I like about it is that JAWS is not over-talking. It is just saying what it needs to say, and you've got a nice standard list view going on there, so we can filter out any columns we don't want.
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Do you just enable filtering in JFW directly then? Very cool if so.
If you feel like it/have time, would be glad to hear a review of it from someone else's standpoint.
As a creator you might think 'I got this accessibility thing covered' but that is just not true.
Hearing pain points from someone else can really help an app be better.
That's kind of why I haven't done proper, walkthrough recordings for my stuff. Hearing it from others, how they use it, can really help.
Certainly no obligation and no pressure but thought I'd ask.
Also the fact it would be coming from a Jaws user instead of NVDA may make a difference as well.
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Well I'm probably not the best person to do it right now because I've only had it installed a few minutes. But maybe later yes. With a standard list view control, you can have JAWS speak or Braille any columns you want and in whichever order you want. Because your list view has proper column headers, and is a standard list view control, JAWS can latch onto that and make it possible.
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One thing that jumps out at me, and please forgive me if this is in the app already. I may want to check the spelling of something on the clipboard, or copy a specific segment out of the entry. But what I cannot see right now is a way of doing that; to place the data in an edit field for review.
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@brian Not sure if you heard this yesterday, but this was one of the major new features in 1.6 released yesterday. If you have multiple machines you may like this one.

Demo: onj.me/media/clipman1.6.mp3

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Hello! New Piper-Voice-Cloner-GUI release is on github! Nothing big, but some messages were hardcoded in Italian.
github.com/GianlucaApollaro/Pi…

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The spring on the door in my old apartment's bathroom made a cool sound when you flicked it. So naturally I recorded it.

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@cordova5029 Yep. When I was a toddler, I would hit the doorstop near our front door, and it would freak me out. So my mom started calling it a friendly doorstop, and it just kind of stuck. Other doorstops that are not springy are not friendly.
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Onedrive irritates me. I made it die.

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#AudioMo : The creaps! This was a short orchestral piece I made for my haloween skit. I remember using some orchestral libraries from native instruments, and I custom designed this spooky lead from rea synth and some effects! I think I might add more on to it come next haloween.

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Maybe @Stéphane (Dr. P) would be interested to see this: gigasoundproject.com/projects/…


#AudioMo day 4. Showing off an audio clip from the ambience genorater on my website. It's a 3d binaural engine that genorates synthesis. The key is I think b flat, the scale is yo, a japanese scale. I think that's correct, it's been a while since I made this recording. Basicly the gist is, choose your world, choose scale and key, click genorate. It'll genorate a random latin sounding name too! It's based off of "syngen" an engine coded in js by this person named shift backtik. Would definitely recommend finding out more. In the meantime, if you want a direct link to my website, try www.gigasoundproject.com

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Hello, new release of music separator is up. Models have been reorganized, in categories and now they appear in a tree view. You can now search for models aswell. Auto-updater is also available, it'll work starting from v1.5.
github.com/GianlucaApollaro/Mu…

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New version of FM-DX servers Lister 0.3 awailable.
I think that's the biggest update.
Added:
Previously overlooked context menu in search results;
Information about coordinates (Lat, Lon) in the server details panel;
New option in the Context menu, which allows you to check the approximate location based on coordinates provided by the server owner;
Option to hide locked and unreachable servers;
Support for RT1 display in the server status, because FM-DX Servers provide it. Sorry for overlooking it previously.
Fixed:
Bug that caused status checks to fail for some servers with URLs ending in a trailing slash (/);
No more Window flashing while loading the status of the selected server or search;
No more "RDS" prefix before RDS fields. Now it's just "PS", "PTY", etc.
tdprograms.ovh/pfiles/FmdxServ…

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I just finished creating OptiLab Core v1.0.0, which is a free JSFX plugin for REAPER. It's a light mastering tool with three simple controls: Mode, Input, and Auto-Adapt.
Modes include Podcast Leveler, Stream Polish, and Smooth Limiter.
Download it here:
github.com/dgl1984/optilab/rel…

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Bat Outta Hell is now playable on mobile. Not gonna say it's perfect, but the start is there. It supports tilt steering. It calibrates after a short countdown when you hit start game if tilt steering is on / available. On iOS, this requires accepting a permission. Touch gestures available if you don't wanna use the tilt steering. I probably need to run through the how to play section and do some updating, but controls are:
Swipe up / down: Throttle
Flick left and right (when tilt steering is off or unavailable): steer
Two finger single tap: Activate power-up
3 finger single tap: Pause / unpause
Two finger up / down / left / right: Announce various bits of info
These work on most of the playable area, but two vertical strips on the left and right are dedicated to the horn / horn ball.
On iOS and Android, touch controls are unavailable unless screen reader is off. Thus, there's a use TTS checkbox in options. On iOS, every time the TTS fires, it significantly ducks audio. This is far from idea, but completely out of my hands. I would therefore recommend becoming familiar with the game / sounds on PC or Mac, then turning off the automatic speech announcements on mobile once you know the sounds well enough. This will still let you use the two finger swipes to get info.

For those who need the link: ironcross32.github.io/Bat_Outt…
#blind #gaming #AI #a11y

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All right, for those who say Bat Outta Hell needs a page, here's a page: ironcross32.github.io/Bat_Outt…

It will always have the latest builds. @ZBennoui @jonathan859 @pitermach @andrew

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#AudioMo day 4. Showing off an audio clip from the ambience genorater on my website. It's a 3d binaural engine that genorates synthesis. The key is I think b flat, the scale is yo, a japanese scale. I think that's correct, it's been a while since I made this recording. Basicly the gist is, choose your world, choose scale and key, click genorate. It'll genorate a random latin sounding name too! It's based off of "syngen" an engine coded in js by this person named shift backtik. Would definitely recommend finding out more. In the meantime, if you want a direct link to my website, try www.gigasoundproject.com

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When I cant sleep during spring and summer time, I sometimes record birds on our balcony. I live in Banska Bystrica, city in the center of Slovakia, so the best time to do this is about 4 AM. Here is my compilation of recordings from last years. audiopub.site/listen/b9ef9a42-… #AudioMo

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Okay, this is something I'd love to play with but can't as I don't have the required GPU. I wish someone would create some sort of time shared AI service sort of like timesharing mainframes in the 70's where you rent time on a computer with a big GPU, send it the work to be done,and get the results back, and you're billed for what you actually use.


Hello all,
I'd like to share a project started by my friend Salvatore and expanded by @Derek and me. Piper now features a GUI, voice training, and more.
It runs on windows only. Requires an NVIDIA GPU with at least 8 GB VRAM (12 GB recommended).
github.com/GianlucaApollaro/Pi…
Latest ZIP release can be found at
github.com/GianlucaApollaro/Pi…
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@Jonathan😪 I had a 4 hours train ride today so I played Bat Out Of Hell. Run time: 22:38
Hide Statistics
Statistics
Average speed: 112 mph.
Obstacles avoided: 159.
Near misses: 11.
Crashes: 2.
Gas tanks collected: 26.
Wrenches collected: 1.
Total power-ups collected: 45.
Power-up breakdown: Shield 22.2%, Rocket 48.9%, Horn ball 28.9%.
Fired 58 horn balls, hitting 33 and missing 25, for an accuracy of 56.9%.
Obstacles blocked by shield: 9.
Sink holes traversed: 2.
Hit 19 ramps and missed 8, for an accuracy of 70.4%.
Total air time: 212.7 seconds.
Coins collected: 247. I am really addicted. For those who don't know, here it is files.jonathan859.com/tools/BO…
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@bscross32 @ZBennoui I'm not illegally hosting your AI code, I'm just fixing your skill issue of still fiddling around with Dropbox links instead of properly hosting it yourself. I needed a convenient way to play it from work, you know?
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@jonathan859 @ZBennoui It's not a skill issue, it's a don't give a damn issue. Also I may have to do something since I'm thinking of how to make this mobile friendly. I mean it already works on Android with a controller, but there's more than could be done for a native experience on both.
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Updated mine and @arfy's SendTo with latest encoders and now a quick and easy cmd installer that puts all the encoders in-place for you, along with the send to shortcuts, also adds it to your path so you don't have to.
3.onj.me/programs/SendTo202605…

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I'd personally remove the del commands particularly in the YouTube DL scripts. completely user error but I had ydln in my path, and ran it in the wrong folder, resulting it deleting everygning following *.f???.* in my user folder.
Luckily no damage was done but it went and did what it said very efficiently.
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The National Federation of the Blind has been advocating strongly to Microsoft on this issue, and we're pleased with this outcome. Microsoft admits Windows 11’s dedicated Copilot key breaks certain workflows: Confirms plans to let users restore "Right Ctrl" or "Context menu" key later this year windowscentral.com/microsoft/w…

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Regarding development tools and data, it's interesting to me that some of us have spent years with certain things being inaccessible or difficult for us to access; e.g. charts, cluttered reports with weird and wonderfully inaccessible web interfaces, other complex visual representations of important data. But now, all of a sudden, people are making APIs and tools (often command line tools) to retrieve that data with the primary goal of making it more digestible by LLMs, yet those tools even by themselves just make the information so much more accessible. I feel kinda conflicted about this. On one hand, it's great that it's more accessible to me now. On the other hand, it's weird to feel that our struggles never really mattered enough for anyone to solve them, but now that we have LLMs, we suddenly have this urgent need to make information more easily accessible and digestible and folks are willing to put work into that.
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@prism It's not just us though, it's everybody. The exact same thing is happening to docs, onboarding, dev-ops and such. Many companies where John on Slack was the docs, until John left and then nobody knew anything, are getting real, dev docs checked into git. LLMs just force you into good practices a lot more than humans do.
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@miki The question is whether it is good that the machines are making us do what we should have been doing before, or bad that we need the machine to tell us todo what we already knew we should have been doing. I am undecided.
A bus ride on a rough, damaged road in Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia. You can hear the vehicle shaking, engine noise, passengers talking, and public transport announcements in Slovak. audiopub.site/listen/2bab37c3-…
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Just saw this in someone's email signature:

"Due to recent budget cuts and the rising cost of electricity, gas and oil, as well as current market conditions, the Light at the End of the Tunnel has been turned off."

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I just added an option to App2Clap to capture the first process matching the filter when reloaded. For example, if you type nvda.exe into the filter and check the "Capture first matching process when reloaded" check box, when the plug-in reloads (e.g. opening a saved project or FX chain), it will search for the first process named nvda.exe and automatically capture it. Even if you don't use this check box, the filter and radio button states are saved to make restoring common configurations faster. app2clap.jantrid.net/

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@Scott Yeah, that was my thinking too. I have this annoying setup where I want to use one pair of headphones for mixing and another (much crappier but less isolating) pair for recording vocals. I have two headphone outputs, but NVDA only comes out the first one and there's no way for me to change that with my particular interface. I can just unplug and replug, but that's annoying and I'm lazy, so it'd be much nicer if I could just fire up a quick App2Clap template to capture NVDA and shove it out the second output. More than you wanted to know, but there you go.
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'the history of iconic sounds' youtu.be/Bkt6-iCbI0o?si=s9Qmlv…

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Want to see what browsers share about you without your consent when you visit a site? It's pretty impressive... and scary: sinceyouarrived.world/taken

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@FreakyFwoof I can’t remember if it was you that posted that really interesting recording from inside a suitcase as it was being loaded onto an aircraft, I don’t know what happened to it and I’d love to get it back and any other interesting recordings.

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If you're looking for music for your podcasts, videos, presentations, projects… here you’ll find my instrumental creations. Currently, there’s over two hours of music. Just listen and download—no accounts needed. linkly.link/2TkSe

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