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I needed an authentic sleigh bells sound for a project, so I borrowed a set from a colleague. However, I have to return them, so I decided to try to preserve their sound in case I ever need it again. Here are my recordings, maybe someone need this sound too or maybe can create sampled instrument. Something for @Derek Lane? s.ondrosik.sk/f/51ebbacdd34f40…
@Derek Lane

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Sometimes i switch powermode on my lenovo laptop using FN+F8. #NVDASRdon't announce those changes. I switched to narrator just to hear that announcement. I vibecoded little addon which can announce it. For me it just works. I used Claude and I have no clue how it works internally. s.ondrosik.sk/f/63ce2dbcff9b49…
#NVDASRdon

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Ok. This is an odd request, and I don't have very many followers so I have no idea who the post is gonna reach, but question: does anyone have impulse responses for things like cars, trucks, big ass subwoofers? If they don't have them, any idea on where to get them?

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@Derek Lane @KamiKitsune420 the original post is here vee.seedy.cc/@KamiKitsune420/1…

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Ok. This is an odd request, and I don't have very many followers so I have no idea who the post is gonna reach, but question: does anyone have impulse responses for things like cars, trucks, big ass subwoofers? If they don't have them, any idea on where to get them?

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@Derek @ondrosik here it is: KamiKitsune420: Ok. This is an odd request, and I don't have very many followers so I have no idea who the post is gonna reach, but question: does anyone have impulse responses for things like cars, trucks, big ass subwoofers? If they don't have them, any idea on where to get them? - 18 hours ago, Public, 1 reply, 11 boosts, 4 favorites, via Fedra 14 of 40
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Been looking around for soundfonts lately, since the Ableton Move with Schwung can load them. I found a massive collection of 500 soundfonts on archive.org that totals around 37 GB. There's probably a lot of junk in here, but it's going to be fun to look through.
Here's a torrent from archive.org: archive.org/download/500-sound…

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It's been more than an hour, but it's here.
reFX Cloud is built with JUCE 8. It exposes its controls through UI Automation, but none of them accept keyboard focus, so Tab and the arrow keys do nothing on their own. This add-on moves real focus between the app's own controls and activates them, and it fixes labels that would otherwise be read as numbers or as bare words.
Download: github.com/tunmi13productions/…

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I've updated my Surge XT patches GitHub repository, now containing 202 patches. github.com/ironcross32/Surge-X…

GitHub - ironcross32/Surge-XT-Patches: These are patches for the free and open source Surge XT synthesizer.

These are patches for the free and open source Surge XT synthesizer. - ironcross32/Surge-XT-Patches
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Not sure if this is something new or I reinvented the wheel. You can now prewiev all presets in nexus packs in the website before buying. Previously, I just listened to the youtube video prewiev. See at refx.com/nexus/expansion/holly…
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Every #blind #radio host I know prefers an analog mixer. You can feel where every button and fader is. But analog gear wears out faster and has its limits. Digital radio mixers are either not accessible, or expensive, or both.
So I built a bridge: a Midas MR18 and a Behringer X-TOUCH, with NVDA or short sounds telling you what the desk just did. Mic fader start, callers on CUE, cough button, talkback, ducking, silence alarm.
Free, open source, Polish UI for now.
github.com/michaldziwisz/moste…

GitHub - michaldziwisz/mostek-mr18: Mostek radiowy dla Midas MR18 i Behringer X-TOUCH, dostępny z NVDA / Radio broadcast bridge for Midas MR18 and X-TOUCH, accessible with NVDA

Mostek radiowy dla Midas MR18 i Behringer X-TOUCH, dostępny z NVDA / Radio broadcast bridge for Midas MR18 and X-TOUCH, accessible with NVDA - michaldziwisz/mostek-mr18
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#blind #radio

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Newly Available Document: Getting Started with Clipman, the Clipboard Manager, Developed by Andre Louis groups.io/g/tech-vi/message/12…

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I think I can say it's useful now. It' is still very beta. I'm using my own Facebook frontend, if you're wondering why all of a sudden I'm using the thing. Facebook sat there doing nothing so long, that now I can fix the screen reader accessibility problems for myself, in my own way. It's kind of janky, but I don't care it solves a lot of my issues with FB. Still need to add things. github.com/serrebidev/blindfb/…

Release BlindFB 0.6.9 — Better video and notifications · serrebidev/BlindFB

Windows videos now use automatically installed mpv and bundled codecs, including HD AV1 playback. Native NVDA controls provide Play/Pause, Stop, seek, and volume without a mediaCtrl Tab stop. Load ...
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Georgiana Brummell

Wait! I didn't think Facebook allowed people to create their own clients, change the look of the website, and so on! Is this for Windows? Is it anything like the mobile site? I stopped using Facebook when that was shut down in October of 2024 because the main site is a mess. I'm not one for using my phone either, but out of curiosity, I tried the apps on both Android and IOS at that time, and both were terrible.
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Helidonkey

@FreakyFwoof yeah home is just stupid. what does home even mean. home can just mean anything you want it to. no, sorry, the idea of giving people completely customisable ribbons in office is just terminally stupid. by all means, put a couple of menus in there that you can add, additionally if you want extra things. but don't rename file to home and fill it full of crap.
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ondrosik

@Helidonkey @Andre Louis Just one last thing to this. Did you know that when you open elements list with nvda+f7 and switch to sheets, you can rename a sheet with F2. Deleting doesn't work by this way but renaming helped me a lot too. #NVDASR
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@FreakyFwoof @ednun_p It doesn't read well, but if you press F6 once from the sheet you are on, it moves to the sheet list (but stays silent). Press the applications key to open the context menu (this reads) and press R for "rename", it says unknown, but puts you in the sheet title with all the current text selected. Type the new name and press ENTER to change it.
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Helidonkey

it used to be alt, then e, then el, then d and then choose sheet. assuming you were on the sheet you wanted to remove. god knows what it is now though. now I tink that delete thing is part of the home ribbon. and god help you if you don't hav the ribbons and windows set up right. I hate it so much.
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We sometimes visit my wife’s parents in the countryside. They have a swing in their yard. I love spending time there, and that swing inspired this piece of music. audiopub.site/listen/704d6491-…

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Just discovered that Suno offers api for developers. docs.sunoapi.org/ maybe someone can code more accessible interface for it. @Andre Louis no pressure, just idea, I know that you are maitaining other projects already and agentic work is not free
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Added bunch of new tracks to my music catalog. Podcast, game, something else what needs music background? Download flac or mp3, individual files or entire library. No registration, attribution is optional. ondrosik.sk/music

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I am enough of a nerd that I found this very funny.
Turning Bird Calls into (Metal) Breakdowns

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Turning Bird Calls Into Breakdowns (Part 1)

#metal #breakdown #birds
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Nice! Between Paperback and this, you've got all your PDF needs covered!

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EffortlessVI Fill 0.1.14, the accessible PDF filler, is now available.
Fill now supports image signatures and saved signature paths alongside typed signatures,
optional detection of simple horizontal rules so text can be placed directly on printed lines,
and a per-document choice between the PDF’s content order and visual top-to-bottom line order.
Inserted fields and text can also be deleted directly from the Fields list or context menu.
Download the new version or update via the help menu.
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Fill - EffortlessVI

Fill out PDFs independently using only your keyboard and screen reader.
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Hmm, now people patching Zoom recorders firmwares, maybe we can add slovak language or, better, fix that issue, when you accidentally can record ad 0 and get absolute silence in recordings. Or add extra features to H1E, like long press of some buttons to report battery? Just thinking...

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On october 9, my Zoom F3 field recorder started talking. Since then it learned a lot more things to talk about, and the patcher is finally available for everyone.

#accessibility #a11y #blind #FieldRecording #ZoomF3… (1/6)

#a11y #Accessibility #blind #fieldrecording #zoomf3

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Everything is open source (MIT, the patcher page as a whole GPL because of eSpeak NG): the voice engine, the tools, and docs on how it works and how the firmware was decompiled. For those of you who answered the poll wanting this on other recorders, there’s a step-by-step write-up of the whole method, from reading the firmware to testing in an emulator: github.com/xogium/talking-f3

The reason why I do not wish to take on this work myself for other recorders is that simply put, I don't own the hardware. I couldn’t distribute a firmware patcher for hardware I do not own, with the hope that things would not break, permanently or otherwise.
I'm putting up this work in the hope other people might find it useful. (5/6)

GitHub - xogium/talking-f3

Contribute to xogium/talking-f3 development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Thanks to Jookia for mapping every menu with me back in 2022, to tkna for reviewing the Japanese, to the friends who asked for faster speech, to @FreakyFwoof for helping to improve the patcher and for being the second actual user of a modded firmware, to @lexa_desj for being the third. And of course to Claude, who did most of the code reading with me. Voices by eSpeak NG, compressed with Opus.

Not made or supported by Zoom, just a blind user who wanted its recorder to talk. (6/6)

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@FreakyFwoof @lexa_desj One last new feature was added. By default it is off and must be activated on purpose in the patcher.
When starting a recording with this feature enabled, which is the only tweak of the actual code from zoom that has been done, the sliding switch no longer acts as a stop button. You can no longer acidentally push it a little too far to the recording/stop position when disabling the hold function. Only the actual stop button will work.
The number of times I accidentally did this and thought I was still recording but wasn’t.
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Alexandre Desjardins

A huge thank you! I've wanted a Zoom F3 for a long time, and thanks to your help (and Claude's, of course), I finally have one and it works perfectly. It just goes to show what we can accomplish with the tools we have today. Congrats, and well done!
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WE have a new Getting Started with Clipman guide, contributed by the very kind @laurent.
Thank you for such a great resource. I hope it benefits everybody wishing to get into Clipman but who may have found it a little bit daunting.

Getting Started with Clipman
onjlouis.github.io/Clipman/get…
#Clipman #A11y #Tutorial #Blind #ScreenReader
CC @bitsacb @doubletap

Getting Started with Clipman

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#a11y #blind #screenreader #tutorial #clipman @Double Tap @Laurent Cadet de Fontenay @BITS

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ssi263-speech 0.8.5 is out, and it's a great one!

A new voice: GW Micro's Sounding Board, running its own DOS drivers.

The Blazie emulator now runs the Braille 'n Speak 640, with the first Polish Braille 'n Speak firmware we've found, plus the double-speed upgrade, one-handed mode and Restart the unit. Android gets its own Blazie Engineering unit screen, and Export to WAV.

The big one for everyday use: Slovak, Hungarian, Polish, Czech, Russian, Korean and the other Braille Lite languages that never signal they're done no longer pause a full second after everything they say. Lists and dialogs feel snappy now, in NVDA, TalkBack and VoiceOver alike. In NVDA, Slovak is now simply a language of the Braille Lite 2000.

The Accent's volume wobble is (mostly) gone too, and the chip's pitch glides follow a law measured on a real SSI-263.

Thank you to everyone who helped: Leo, for two pull requests bringing the Blazie emulator to more BT Speak and BT Braille units, and for the idea of one-handed mode; spacepup, for the SSInger glide reports; grnowak, for his Braille 'n Speak 640's firmware and the board photos behind it; Jake, for the click report; Astra, for reviewing every change; and every tester and listener who sent reports and lent their ears.

NVDA add-on: github.com/tgeczy/ssi263-speec…
SAPI installer: github.com/tgeczy/ssi263-speec…
Android APK: github.com/tgeczy/ssi263-speec…
TestFlight (iPhone, iPad, Mac): testflight.apple.com/join/cJYh…
Linux, the emulators and everything else: github.com/tgeczy/ssi263-speec…

Release ssi263-speech 0.8.5: the Sounding Board, the Braille 'n Speak 640, double speed, and a unit screen on Android · tgeczy/ssi263-speech

ssi263-speech 0.8.5 brings GW Micro's Sounding Board as a new voice, the Braille 'n Speak 640 in the emulator (with the first Polish Braille 'n Speak firmware we know of), the double-speed upgrade,...
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My Zoom F3 talks now.

As a blind field recordist, I've modded the F3's firmware so it speaks: every menu item as you scroll, which option is selected, popups like "SD Card Full!", confirmation dialogs, and even the date and time setup. No sighted help needed.

Would you want a step-by-step guide, with no technical knowledge needed, to put this on your own F3?

#Accessibility #Blind #ZoomF3 #FieldRecording

  • Yes, I own an F3 and want this (0%, 0 votes)
  • Yes, I’d consider getting an F3 for it (15%, 3 votes)
  • Just curious, following along (75%, 15 votes)
  • I’d want this for other recorders (10%, 2 votes)
20 voters. Poll end: Thursday, November 12, 2026, 9:27 PM

#Accessibility #blind #fieldrecording #zoomf3

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@FreakyFwoof Too true, too true.
The firmware itself is the one gating those from the bluetooth side.
Even a custom app for the mac for example wouldn’t help you access the features that are missing from the app, because they're missing from what the bluetooth side exposes.
If you want access to this talking firmware stuff, I can share you the stuff, before it is officially released.
But also, for the love of all that is holy, do not attempt this unless your zoom f3 is already on firmware 2.20 from stock; it might work or might not without it, and I haven't tested.
I'm sure you know the procedure for updates too, but just in case, never power off the device too fast after starting an update. Ideally wait until any AI description stuff confirms that the update is complete, better even if you get a sighted person to help.
Would you want it?
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TG Spaces 1.1 is out for Windows. It’s free, as always.
New: Stereo input. Put it on a stereo track or a whole mix bus, and each side plays into the room from its own place. A guitar panned left is heard from the left of the room, and the room still answers in both ears.
Mono recordings stay one source in the centre, and 1.0 sessions open sounding exactly as they did.
The Mac build is coming tonight.
tgstudios.app/spaces/
#TGSpaces #AudioProduction #Reaper #Accessibility #Blind

TG Spaces — TG Studios

TG Spaces is an accessible convolution reverb for Windows and macOS with 112 rooms, built from acoustic models rather than recordings, and designed to be used entirely by keyboard with a screen reader. VST3 for Reaper, Audio Unit for Logic Pro.
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New post: Have You Tried Turning TalkBack Off and On Again?
An Android bug can kill touch exploration for every screen reader until you reboot. I traced it to a stuck injected pointer in the input dispatcher and sent Google Disability Support a detailed report. Their answer: turn TalkBack off and on, clear Accessibility Suite's cache, and reboot. Only then would they consider passing it to an engineer. Their form wouldn't even accept my logs, only screenshots.
fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/hav…
#Accessibility #A11y #Android #TalkBack #ScreenReader #Blind #Google

Have You Tried Turning TalkBack Off and On Again — fireborn

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the esoteric programmer

fuck this y'all, I think it's time to make our own android roms. Like I know, it'll be hard, it takes time, and in the long term linux based stuff will be simpler to modify because that's a more minimal surface or whatever, but I think the situation is only gonna get worse, because nobody listens to us unless we do it. Anyways, how do you do this kind of debugging? how did you trace the code to that point?
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I recently need to work with online excel sheets. I don't like the excel in browser but there is nice workaround how to open standard desktop excel: Press windows+r, and in the run dialog type "excel url", for example "excel https://something-.sharepoint.com/:" It works if you have access to download the document and copy the content. If permissions are very restricted it doesn't work.
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Introducing my latest plugin, "space trace," In its current form it lets you imulate binaural audio without screwing up the equalization of a sound which happens a lot with other tools like this. Demo will be posted later. github.com/dgl1984/spacetrace/

GitHub - dgl1984/spacetrace: SpaceTrace: accessible binaural HRTF spatializer for Windows VST3 and CLAP

SpaceTrace: accessible binaural HRTF spatializer for Windows VST3 and CLAP - dgl1984/spacetrace
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Derek Lane

@vick21 I would definitely love to see it as a pull request so that everything is available in one place, and I can finally see the first step in mac compatibility with something I've been able to vibe code. So I definitely thank you in advance.
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victor tsaran

In case you do not get Github notifications, here is the PR: github.com/dgl1984/spacetrace/…
I see there are three failing tests but we can fix those once we make sure that my Mac-related changes do not break anything on your end. I obviously hope this is the case and it looks to be so. :)

Add macOS port: Audio Unit, VST3 and CLAP with bundled heads by vick08 · Pull Request #1 · dgl1984/spacetrace

Summary Adds a macOS build of SpaceTrace: Audio Unit, VST3 and CLAP, universal (arm64 + x86_64), macOS 12 or later. All three formats come from the same SpaceTrace JUCE target, as on Windows. Head...
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Now announcing my new app, FastRoute. This one is a long time in the making. The idea of FastRoute is that you have sessions, and within these sessions you have different blocks that you can add, in any order you want, to send audio anywhere you like and process it however you like. This app is for Windows users, and is designed to create a similar ish experience to something like Audio Hijack from the Mac. Input blocks include things like input devices, applications, system audio (with exclusions support), internet streams. Effects include a 4 band parametric EQ, a 10 band EQ, channel mixer, pitch shifter, normalizer, compressor, and more. Outputs include output device, recorder, etc. FastRoute can also send and receive audio across the network, using it's net send/net receive blocks. We have our own protocol, but also support VBAN (VB Audio Network) protocol as well! This barely scratches the surface of the power of FastRoute, so check it out! github.com/masonasons/FastRout…

Release Latest Build · masonasons/FastRoute

Automated build from commit 5956773 Version: 0.6 Commit: 5956773 Built: 2026-10-09T18:30:14-05:00 Vendor the ASIO SDK and host one ASIO device Enumeration reads the registry, so it is safe to call ...
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Alex Hall

This is kind of awesome! I almost want to do an audio demo, just because of how easy it now is to capture my voice and NVDA. I was going to ask you if there are plans to let users record each source block individually, but then I realized that I can just add a record block after each source, with another record block at the end of the chain to get all the sources together.
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Derek Lane

I tried to make one control do that. Something always fell apart when I did. Either something would look bad visually, in VDA would read the wrong numbers, and the sliders in tone trace and space trace turn in to edit fields when you press enter on them, and adding context sensitivity on top of the questionable stack made a mess. c
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First, I released ElevenLabs Music and Sound effects.
Now, ElevenLabs speech. here's my companion app just in-time for you to enjoy the V4 model for free, for the next I think, 10 days. No cost for using V4 during this time period, even via the API. If I were you I'd take full advantage.
Go download and have fun.
github.com/OnjLouis/ElevenLabs…

Release ElevenLabs Speech Generator 1.0.0 · OnjLouis/ElevenLabsSpeechGenerator

ElevenLabs Speech Generator 1.0.0 Initial release of an accessible native speech and audio application for Windows and Mac, by Andre Louis. Included workflows Text to speech and multi-voice dialog...
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JamminJerry

well it would appear I need to log in and give it a permission that is missing. oopsy! got this when I hit the test key button.

Voices: ElevenLabs returned HTTP 401: The API key you used is missing the permission voices_read to execute this operation.

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JamminJerry

ok, now this is just simply awesome! I had it create a file of me reading a bit of chapter one of ah screw it, and I just wish I could listen to my voice reading other things like this. I forgot I have a sample voice up there. two of them in fact. I never saw it in the reader app though, so never used it, but I love what this thing genorated. it even sounds like it tried to give me a UK accent in parts of this file! if you have a minute or two go have a listen. I just put it in our db folder. the file is called Jerry reading a story.mp3.
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JamminJerry

I didn't see a way of creating a voice though in your app, meaning making a sample voice. like I had used in that file. I could have totally missed it when going threw the manual, and I will totally own that if I did. I created that voice a very long time ago, and it is apparently still on there server in the my voices section, but I think it did pretty good with the sample that is up there.
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James H

@JamminJerry You should be able to, as your instance no longer suffers from the inability to upload large files. Either that, or somebody broke what I fixed months ago and I get to slap @munchkinbear. Which I might do anyway because it's fun.
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Munchkinbear

@quanin that line is amazing. fuck I realized I never commented those entries properly. bad! *slaps self* I'll fix it later after coffee. @JamminJerry @FreakyFwoof
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JamminJerry

@munchkinbear @quanin well regardless, someone did something right as it let me attach it, and didn't break. I think it took a minute for tweesecake to upload, and process it, but it did work with no issues at all, so a 59 meg file is perfectly doable.
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Munchkinbear

@quanin yes, but I made a note to self to make sure any changes were commented and whoops didn't, but at least those varriables are self-explanatory. lol. ok, must go be an adult and stop faffing around on masto. @JamminJerry @FreakyFwoof
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JamminJerry

well it says that you get up to just over 200000 cretits for free so you know what? I will just keep working with this particular story until I run out of the free stuff. lets see how far I can go.
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JamminJerry

alright, so I just did 56083 characters so I could finish chapter one of this story. I went from a little over 75K tokens down to 56355 left. so using just a hair over half of the 10K characters you can put in the edit field uses around 19K in toakens. so if someone wants a rough estimate 10K characters will use around 40000 tokens. if I am doing the math right, and it is very possible I am not, but now you know how much it uses.

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JamminJerry

I really like it, and I love the hotkeys you have in it as well. for what I can see so far, everything makes sense to me, and is layed out very well. again, just my personal observations. this time I did read a big chunk of the manual, but I think knowing the music program, I could have used this one without reading the manual, unless I just needed to clairify things. I hope I am wording this correctly. I am not the greatest at typing my thoughts.
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Andre Louis

@JamminJerry That was precisely what I hoped.
And yes, it went through some serious testing. For example at one point the preview voice button would, without fail, dump you into the file name box, no matter where you were. Control shift space or pressing the button manually.
Stuff like that. I quite enjoy the testing process anyway. Some people will make a thing, put it out there and never test it, just excited to have people use it and that's not at all the best method.
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JamminJerry

if I were to attempt to write something like that, I wouldn't put it out, unless I could use it successfully. smile. you are right that some people probibly never test it, and yes, that is a perfect recipe for disaster!
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I don't know if you are like me or not, but AI hate starting to hear something, and not hearing it completed. I just put all of chapter one in our folder of that story. I stopped at the end of that chapter. the file looks like it is 43 minutes and 33 seconds.
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Andre Louis

@JamminJerry Just put out an update to Speech that allows you to check a box, then you have 500,000 characters instead of 10,000. So you could do a chapter in a single pass. Obviously credit is a must have, but you won't have to split it any longer. @Leowyatt88
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needless to say trying to do something large like what I just did would blow threw credits like no ones business. just as an example, chapter one of that story is 43757 characters. if 5083 characters blew threw around 19K of credits, you can see how many credits you would need just for one chapter. that depends on how big the chapter is.
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Melissa Roe

@JamminJerry Do you have Eleven Labs software that does speech generation now, or know of something that does? If so, can you send me the download link, as I'd like to try it. ONly asking because I saw your posts talking with Jerry about trying the V4 voices.
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Melissa Roe

@JamminJerry Actually, found it in the release notes of the music generator. I tried to follow the thread many times, and only saw the youtube link where you advertised that. Not sure if it's a limit of Tweesecake or something, but I did try. I found the download though so that's what counts. :) I've just got it set up and I'm ready to try it.
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#ElevenLabs Speech Generator: Accessible software for Windows and Mac
youtu.be/KVjaNQuKTA8

ElevenLabs Speech Generator: Accessible software for Windows and Mac

First, I released ElevenLabs Music and Sound effects.Now, ElevenLabs speech. here's my companion app just in-time for you to enjoy the V4 model for free, for...
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#elevenlabs

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Sarah Russell

Okay, this was amazing just for the salesmanship, like dude, this was awesome. Going to have to check this out because Ihaven't done much at all with Eleven labs as Ifind their site kind of... meh...
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Andre Louis

@blindbat84 It is kind of, if not very much, meh. That's why I made my two apps. You barely have to go to the site for anything now. Once your API key is configured you should honestly be good to skip the site altogether.
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For those of you that might want to hear this. here is chapter 1 of a harry potter fanfic called Ah Screw it read by me genorated by eleven labs. I have to give props to @FreakyFwoof for making the program that let me do this. If you would like to try out the very awesome ElevenLabsSpeechGenerator that he wrote you can get it from here.

github.com/OnjLouis/ElevenLabs…

I did also have to use sound forge to join all the pieces together.

Release ElevenLabs Speech Generator 1.0.0 · OnjLouis/ElevenLabsSpeechGenerator

ElevenLabs Speech Generator 1.0.0 Initial release of an accessible native speech and audio application for Windows and Mac, by Andre Louis. Included workflows Text to speech and multi-voice dialog...
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JamminJerry

@Derek here you go.

Ah, Screw It!

Author:
mjimeyg

Summary:
Harry goes to sleep after the final battle... but he wakes up at his first Welcoming Feast under the Sorting Hat. Harry has been thrown back in time into his eleven-year-old body. If he's going to have to suffer through this again, he's going to do all he can to make sure he enjoys himself.

Category: Stargate: SG-1 + Harry Potter Crossover
Status: Completed
Updated: 09-15-16
Total chapters: 37

fanfiction.net/s/12125771/1/Ah…

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JamminJerry

@Derek I didn't know if I could give aidirect link from an hp folder that I am part of, so that is why I gave you the info from the story its self. if you are part of Andre's HP folder on dropbox, ort Katie's folder, you can find the story in one of those folders as well.
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Calling all indie musicians and those who support them! (Boosts appreciated - let's get the word out)

We'd like to hear from you.
Actually, what we'd like to hear is your music. So drop a link to one of your tracks so that we can listen.

#SupportIndieMusic #indie #musician #musodon #fedimusic

#indie #musician #musodon #fedimusic #supportindiemusic

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Multivariate Outliers

Our music goes in a few different directions at once, but our latest album is centered largely around an acoustic sound and a classic songwriting approach.

multivariateoutliers.bandcamp.…

(P.S.: I run both the band page and the Blue Grazer Records page - I'm looking forward to listening to all of your music!)

Middle Of Nowhere, by Multivariate Outliers

from the album All The Colors On Display
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@Oriol Gómez Sentís @Peter Vágner I would like to use sonic room to record podcast remotely. People mostly connect from phone and browsers lock the screen during audio call. Do you plan fix this issue? github.com/ogomez92/sonicroom/…
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Peter Vágner

@Oriol Gómez Sentís @ondrosik Frankly I see the fact it's a web based app as a strong selling point so there's nothing to install and the guest can just open it in their browser.

I think there are two things to implement:

  • So called Wakelock API generaly available since 2025.
  • Or for older devices playing looped video with no audio track in background positioned off screen.

Do you see this as something you would consider adding?

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New Blazie Emulators!
Lots fixed. New settings, including serial port mode and the click at utterance starts. Clock works. Let's see, flash formatting should make the right chirps now. Slovak firmware added, for testing and feedback. Thanks to all who reported problems. You can also now use a tool to import and export your flash into a .img file.
github.com/tgeczy/ssi263-speec…
github.com/tgeczy/ssi263-speec…
github.com/tgeczy/ssi263-speec…
github.com/tgeczy/ssi263-speec…

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Tamas G

@N589KS so those used the Doubletalk chips, which are a new beast entirely - the RC8650 and such. SSI263 was not used on Braille Lite M-series. The BLT 2000 should be in there though, hmm. There are already some efforts for the DoubleTalk work, which is promising, especially with the real ROM running under emulation and the board getting a nice decompile from Chris Toth.
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Good job, Microsoft, for shipping a Start menu experience unusable for screen reader users as part of Windows 11 2026 Update:
github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issue…

I and some Windows Insiders and screen reader developers sent feedback to Microsoft back in July 2026. Three months later, the situation has not changed. What breaks my heart is that this unusable experience also affects Narrator. Shame on you, Microsoft. #A11Y #UXFail

Windows 11 Preview build 26300.8772 and later: NVDA announces "tab" when searching in Start menu with refined search experience enabled · Issue #20530 · nvaccess/nvda

Brief summary In Windows 11 Insider Preview build 26300.8772 and later, NVDA does not announce search results when searching in the refined search experience Steps to reproduce Install Windows 11 I...
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#a11y #uxfail

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Pitermach

@FreakyFwoof @spacepup Your wish is partly answered, the czech community is already working on one which looks to be quite far in development. So in theory if an English rom does surface, it should be easy enough to boot. github.com/lpintes/EurekaA4Emu…

GitHub - lpintes/EurekaA4Emulator: Emulátor počítača Eureka A4 pre Windows

Emulátor počítača Eureka A4 pre Windows. Contribute to lpintes/EurekaA4Emulator development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Andrew Hodgson

Did anyone use the Keynote Companion? Apparently you could run DOS software on it, but I don't know what it used to run on itself. Apparently some of the larger reading machines of the 90's were quite funky and used full coppies of Windows 3.1 internally.
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Andrew Hodgson

That must have been quite old if you went to college in the early 00's. Come to think of it my girlfriend at the time was given a really old Artic notetaker to use when she started at RNC in 2000, whereas I was rocking a BrailleNote as I was starting uni.
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Aurifi for Windows
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Aurifi for Windows

Download Aurifi for Windows, an unofficial preservation port of the self-voiced audio game.
lillaire.net

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early days, but it works: eurpod.com/synths/blazie-emu.z… - use the unit menu to choose firmware, alt+shift+F if on qwerty Type N Speak to get to menus easily. Flash disk state is saved in appdata but in Blazie's format for now, not sure if a .img export will be done before 0.7 is out but at least it'll work well enough.

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Dane Stange

Hi there! Is there a GitHub repo for this? I just grabbed the zip—I’m Dane Stange, hoping to tinker with it, but I keep running into hiccups. Then I realized it’s Windows-only, so what’s the next step? I’d rather not reverse-engineer the EXE with AI; I figured someone might have asked for the source already. If not, we could build something ourselves if you’d prefer not to share it for safety reasons—totally understandable, lol. Still, we’ve come this far! Just know I won’t reverse the emulator without your okay; it’s something I’d rather avoid. One neat thing about AI is we can skip some limits. I don’t expect much from this request, but we’ll see. Hope you’re doing well and enjoyed your pizza pretzel! Also, I hope my focus on transparency and freedom hasn’t been too much. 😊
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Peter Vágner

@Tamas G Oh sorry for the delay. I have just realized you have full BNS emulator up on github including an ability to run that slovak firmware.

It sounds fine, it handles punctuations and numbers. In fact it's reading numbers in the calculator by digits and numbers in the text as they should e.g 13 as thirteen.

Thanks for working on this.

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