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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 (11%, 2 votes)
  • Just curious, following along (76%, 13 votes)
  • I’d want this for other recorders (11%, 2 votes)
17 voters. Poll end: Thursday, November 12, 2026, 9:27 PM

#Accessibility #blind #fieldrecording #zoomf3

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Casey Reeves (it/its)

@sergiodeprado I know right? I've been super busy making the actual patcher and such so that people can literally try this for themselves. I’ve officially gotten the few remaining items handled, including the support for all 7 languages.
Of course, I can only evaluate english and french myself, so I cannot be 100% certain that other languages are handled correctly. Still, they are now hopefully usable, and not just random words strung together!
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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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#Accessibility #blind #audioproduction #reaper #tgspaces

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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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aaron

@remixman I think so too. As it stands, I’ll be happy to see the back of this bug. I'm sending my patch set to the disability support rep I've already been communicating with, and hopefully they can send the patch onto someone who can apply it. That will fix the bug for everyone, not just BackTalk users. Until then, however, I need this fixed for our users, and need it fixed now.
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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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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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JamminJerry

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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JamminJerry

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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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…
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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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Können diejenigen von euch, die Windows 11 nutzen (müssen) und dabei auf einen Screenreader angewiesen sind, bestätigen, dass Microsoft mit einem Update das Startmenü unbenutzbar gemacht haben?

#Windows #Windows11 #Microsoft #Microslop #Screenreader #Barrierefreiheit #NVDA #Narrator

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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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#Windows #Windows11 #screenreader #microsoft #nvda #barrierefreiheit #narrator #microslop
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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
lillaire.net/aurifi/

Aurifi for Windows

Download Aurifi for Windows, an unofficial preservation port of the self-voiced audio game.
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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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ok. My collection of various Blazie firmware is growing, from the 640 (1998) to the Braille Lite's last one in 2003. The only other language I have is Spanish, so I've started at least looking at how it did phonemes differently and what drove the greater inflection there. However, I'm aware of French (standard, plus Canadian) and Czech languages. German was there too I believe, along with Russian. These are long lost, but if you or your friends have them from any Blazie Engineering Unit type, I'd take it. For any language. The goal is to really get these files before they disappear, if they haven't already.

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ondrosik

@Tamas G @Peter Vágner I found something. This archive contains some programs shipped with my Braille'n speak 2000 and sk firmware too and also some games downloaded from the blazie engineering website s.ondrosik.sk/f/8d55530822644e…
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Tamas G

@ondrosik @pvagner perfect, once I expanded the full URL I could download! Huge thanks to you! Let me know if you'd be ok with any crediting by first name for the files, or not. And if not, that's OK too. I can just say "Slovak community" :)
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I made Scroll Cast Radio, an Android app for swiping through live radio from around the world, like reels but for radio.
Built TalkBack-first: every station is one swipe, with custom actions, spoken announcements, and headset controls.
Mood search, favorites, loudness levelling. Free and open source, using the Radio Browser directory.
Download: github.com/Glowing-Radiant/Scr…
#Android #Accessibility #Blind #Radio

Release Scroll Cast Radio v0.4.1 · Glowing-Radiant/Scroll-cast-radio

Fixed: sound cut out when Even out loudness and Bass boost were both on. All audio enhancements now run through a single sound processor.
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OK, this is going to be a super detailed, nerdy, long post about me getting a new gadget and making it accessible.

Last Monday, I got myself a Flipper Zero. For those of you who don't know, Flipper Zero is a tiny device squarely targeted at tech nerds, geeks and tinkerers, and has made a name for itself as a hacking gadget shortly after it was first released in 2023.
It's a nifty little device that can receive, send and manipulate various types of radio, NFC, Bluetooth and infrared signals, which yes that does make it a great tool for ethical hacking and pentesting. But that means it can also, for example, be used as a universal remote for controlling TVs, stereos, ACs, or most anything else that's remote controlled around your home, it can also be extended to be a powerful network diagnostics tool thanks to various add-on boards that can be connected to its GPIO pins. So yes this thing can do a lot, and it's very popular throughout the tech community.
Problem is, the Flipper Zero comes with zero accessibility features. To be fair, the device is very constrained in terms of resources: 64 MHz processor, 1024 KB flash storage, 256 KB SRAM, not exactly much headroom for a screenreader. At least there's a speaker though, a tiny piezo buzzer that isn't exactly capable of producing high-quality audio, but hey it's something at least.
Thankfully, the Flipper's firmware is completely open-source, and in fact there are lots and lots of community maintained, alternative firmwares available. So starting Tuesday morning, I fired up Claude and set out to work on a project that seemed hopeles at first given the device’s specs, and after several rounds of designing, testing, tweaking speech samples, adjusting EQ parameters, firmware tweaking and stripping out animations and visuals that would otherwise have taken up too much memory for the screenreader to run, I’m finally able to navigate, use and enjoy a device that was never really meant to be accessible to a completely blind person like myself.
Yes, I can now navigate the Flipper's menus and apps, scan for infrared signals and create universal remotes based on them, I can use it to scan NFC tags and have it speak the data which they contain, and I hopefully will be able to troubleshoot my WiFi with it once work on that functionality is complete. It's not exactly the best accessibility experience there is, mostly because that piezo speaker just sounds super muffled and scratchy. It's clear enough and perfectly usable for me, but that's a real limitation. Also, on-device speech synthesis just is not possible given the severely limited resources. The solution to this is a script that extracts all text strings from the firmware, then creates pre-recorded audio clips for each which the screenreader then plays back. If you've ever used an mp3 player with the Rockbox screenreader, this is the same idea. My goal is to clean this up over the coming days and weeks as best I can, and then release the modified accessibility firmware on GitHub for all to enjoy. I'd also love to know if any of you have heard of the Flipper Zero before and maybe wanted to buy one, but didn't due to the absence of a screenreader or any other accessibility feature. Or maybe you actually already own one and have been using it via the console over its USB to serial interface, because yes that too would be a way of using this accessibly while tethered to a computer. It just feels crazy to think that only a few days ago, I received a device that had absolutely no accessibility functions at all, yet here I am only 3 days later and the same device is perfectly capable of speaking all its various menus and texts, enabling me to use most features accessibly. What a time to be alive!
#FlipperZero #Accessibility #Screenreader #AccessibleSoftware

#Accessibility #screenreader #accessiblesoftware #FlipperZero
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Just posted it to this thread, I think quoted posts are somehow broken for me but see if this link will take you to it:

kipp.social/@robin/statuses/01…

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Alrighty, here’s a quick and dirty demo of my Flipper Zero accessibility project, navigating the main menu, using it to scan an NFC tag and emulate my TV’s power button using infrared.
Enjoy, any feedback, suggestions and comments more than welcome!

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I absolutely love the over nerding of this video. We get down to how the cabling works of the buzzer. Inside America's Got Talent's Buzzer System youtube.com/watch?v=ofcpUX9RIM…

How the buzzers work on America's Got Talent

Go behind the scenes of America’s Got Talent with Paul Wittman and Ryan Tanker as they show me how the show’s iconic buzzers actually work. From the judges’ ...
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If you're like me and refused using WhatsApp desktop because it is horrible, but still use it and find it horrible, and you do not know about this project, then you may take a deep breath and look at this.
github.com/gabrielhhaber/WinZa…
Somehow, it has gathered quite a traction already but I never heard about it.
Using WhatsApp finally feels like how it should have felt since the beginning.

GitHub - gabrielhhaber/WinZapp_Python: An open source native WhatsApp client writen in WXPython.

An open source native WhatsApp client writen in WXPython. - gabrielhhaber/WinZapp_Python
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@Aryan @Aman I mean, it depends what we even talk about? Is it a WhatsApp client too? Winzapp uses browser automation and official supported sockets as far as I can tell so Meta is unable to detect anything, how do you do it? How are you going to pitch your product to everyone (if you plan to release it), e.g. what makes it stand out and where is it more unique or useful than Winzapp?
@aryan @aman
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I'm excited! I'm rearranging my room's desk space to accommodate the arrival of a Yamaha Genos2 arranger workstation keyboard. I had a chance to try out Yamaha's Voice Guide feature for this and a few other arranger workstation keyboards yesterday, and while it still has some way to go and needs a slightly different approach, I'm willing to get my hands dirty with it and again play a Yamaha keyboard. I did love their keyboards when I was younger, and every function was executable via a dedicated button or slider. And I'm excited to get back into that field of music making.

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Is anyone here using a youTUbe downloader that works locally and isn't terminal-based? I've looked at several of the existing open-source projects and a lot of them are partially or completely inaccessible. Some of them even use WX, but the author seems to have forgotten what button labels are. I'm looking for something anyone could use, and yt-dlp is not really that.

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if by anyone you mean anyone using NVDA, there's a lot of addons that do this now for ... reasons, I'm sure. If not... yeah, not sure. The very rare occasions I need to do this I still use Dirpy, but it's not local and starting to paywall some things
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Windows+I, windows update, advanced options, delivery optimization, then:
Allow downloads from other devices, turn it off
Background limit as a %, turn it on and set it to something lower than it is.
Foreground limit as a %, turn that on and set it to something like 75% or whatever you'd want when the actual window is up.
In Upload options:
Set these to something way lower.
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I don't personally need this app, but it's always nice to celebrate positive #accessibility success/redemption regardless.

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2026-09-10 03:07:02

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I use the my noise app and have done so for a long time. Has hundreds of cool soundscapes and randomized music for noise masking and relaxation. The dev totally redesigned the app about a year ago and the accessibility was so bad that the dev was nice enough to point me to the old app which they kept on the store. Wrote up a report to see if the guy could fix it to make it possible for us to change volumes of the 10 tracks etc. and use prefixes. Hadn't tried the new version in a while and surprisingly, it's been made way more accessible and all the things I asked about have been fixed. All sliders are labelled and draggable, no buttons are unlabelland. In the old app, you could adjust the soundscape, but you never used to know what you were adjusting. Goes to show you that some developers care, listen, and improve. Some don't for sure, many don't actually, but it's nice when they do. apps.apple.com/us/app/mynoise-…

myNoise - The Soundscape App App - App Store

Download myNoise - The Soundscape App by myNoise BVBA on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more apps like myNoise - The…
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I forget who shared this awhile back but it's been open in a tab since then and DAMN it's nice. I remember they said it's great fall music, and I think they're exactly right.

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Eyes to the Height, by JAMES MURRAY

10 track album
Ultimae

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I haven't seen many of these for artists, so figured I'd try and see what happens!

Hello! I'm a #pianist and media/videogame #composer hopping between Barcelona and London, looking for work on either front!
I'm currently a composer for Soundbooth Theater, writing and producing music for some of their audiobooks and cinematic audio productions. I've also composed music for a couple of small creator podcasts and videogames, would love to collaborate with such projects more in the future!
Find samples of my work and more info on my website below. Boosts are very much appreciated!
guillemleonmusic.com
#GetFedihired #Fedihire

Guillem León Vivas

Pianist and composer.
Guillem León Vivas (guillemleonmusic.com)
#FediHire #getfedihired #composer #pianist

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Are you a customer of #Revolut? With high-net worth? Congratulations! Your data, including passport scans, might have been leaked to criminals because Revolut fell for a targeted data phishing attempt.

“Revolut recently identified a sophisticated external impersonation scam where an unauthorised third party utilised a legitimate government agency domain email to submit fraudulent requests for information” — Revolut spokesperson

techcrunch.com/2026/09/12/revo…

Revolut confirms customer data breach through fake government requests | TechCrunch

Revolut said it notified affected customers and alerted the relevant government agency, law enforcement, and financial regulators.
Jagmeet Singh (TechCrunch)
#revolut

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Dr. Bruce Simpson

Oh crap.

You know these guys have a toxic ex partner style "We will never let you go" account closure system? I mistakenly signed up for them months back only to find that their biometric authentication was invasive and repetitive, they are totally AI-pilled and Google-pilled, heavily dependent on Google infrastructure, and they like to push Musk stocks on their app front page. You can't close an account without draining it through an outward transfer and you HAVE to top it up to a minimum to do that.

I just need to Article 17 these dickheads and be done with it.

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Interesting. They - Resolut - are advertising heavily on YT at the moment without saying a word about this breach or what they’re doing in response to it nor what affected customers should do. 🤔🔥
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Wrote this a few years ago during a thunder storm.

Dreaming in the Rain
youtu.be/wvIrSTLTkpI

Dreaming in the Rain

The sound of rain hammering down with thunder in the background to me at least, is quite a calming one, so I decided to take that sound, record it for 10 min...
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@Peiress @jakobrosin There's also this hour-long thing called Ambiental: youtube.com/live/tF0pSIKnASw

Ambiental: Music and Sound meet Hand-InHand

In which I take lots of ambient sounds and effects, combine with sounds from man and nature to bring you an ever-changing sound-scape.--------------------If ...
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@Jakob Rosin @Jeaux
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I really wish someone could run with this! I would love something in windows that could do this. a lot of apps can do this on android, and it is really nice, having certain sounds for certain notifications, even if you don't look at it right away, you know what it is at least.

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Quite a few apps now, including web apps, can deliver standard Windows notifications, but many of them don't allow you to configure custom sounds for specific notifications; e.g. messages from specific people. During long work meetings or when I'm deeply focused, it's either not feasible for me to check each notification or the notifications all just become noise that I end up ignoring. I got sick of missing the doorbell or important messages from my wife in those situations.
So I wrote a hacky #NVDASR global plugin to search for regular expressions in incoming notifications and play the sound associated with the matching expression. It's configured with a simple tab separated notificationSounds.conf file in the NVDA configuration directory. For example:
doorbell pressed C:\sounds\doorbell.wav
If anyone's interested, here's the plugin. I can't be bothered developing a GUI, polishing it and distributing it as a proper add-on. You'll need to put this in the developer scratchpad. If you don't know what that is, probably best to ignore this.
gist.githubusercontent.com/jcs…

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@jcsteh I wouldn't know how to add things to it without the GUI, I don't think. unless I could figure out the ini file if that is how you configure things. I would have to try to grab notification names, and things like that. so not hard that would be, but yes, this would be awesome to have for windows.
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Took a shot at Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 14 third movement. this was the first pass. I tend to run multiple passes on a song before I consider it done, but... this is impressive for a first take.

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NVDA add-on
Experimental Addon: eSpeakVoiceDesigner_0.2.43

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Manolo

Hi everyone,

I would like to share a new experimental NVDA add-on:

eSpeak Voice Designer 0.2.43

The purpose of this add-on is to make the creation and editing of eSpeak voice variants much more interactive.

Instead of repeatedly editing a text file, reloading the voice and testing it again, eSpeak Voice Designer lets you change voice parameters while NVDA is running and immediately hear the result.

You can start in several ways:

from the standard eSpeak voice;

from one of the factory eSpeak variants;

from one of your previously saved personal variants.

So loading an existing variant is only one possibility. You can also start from the standard voice and gradually build a completely new variant.

The designer exposes many parameters used by eSpeak variants, including formants, pitch-related parameters, voicing, consonants, echo, breath and breath weighting, together with a number of Klatt-related parameters for experimentation.

Changes are applied live, so while designing a voice you can continue navigating with NVDA and immediately hear how the voice changes.

Personal variants can be saved as work in progress and reopened later, so it is possible to design a voice over several sessions rather than completing everything at once.

Some useful shortcuts are:

Alt+S:
Move to the Sections control.

Alt+V:
Move between the Factory variants and Personal variants controls.

Alt+L:
Move to the parameter list.

Ctrl+S:
Save the current voice as a personal variant.

F2:
Rename a personal variant.

Delete:
Delete a personal variant.

Ctrl+Shift+S:
Install the current variant into NVDA's eSpeak variant directory.

The last command is intended for when you are satisfied with the voice and want to use it as a normal eSpeak variant in NVDA.

Because the eSpeak data directory is normally protected by Windows, administrator permission may be requested during this operation.

NVDA does not immediately refresh the list of installed eSpeak variants. After installing a new variant with Ctrl+Shift+S, NVDA therefore needs to be restarted before the new variant becomes available in the normal eSpeak voice settings.

The general workflow can therefore be something like:

standard voice -> edit parameters -> save personal variant -> continue working on it later -> install it into NVDA -> restart NVDA -> select it as a normal eSpeak variant.

Existing eSpeak variants can also be used as starting points.

One important goal of the current version has been preserving the original behaviour of loaded eSpeak variants. Parameters which have not been changed by the user should remain untouched rather than being unnecessarily reconstructed by the designer.

This was particularly important for parameters such as breath, breathw and formants, where small changes in interpretation can noticeably alter the character of a voice.

The add-on interface is currently available in English, Italian, Spanish and French.

This is still an experimental project, so feedback is very welcome, especially from people who already create or modify eSpeak variants manually.

I am particularly interested in hearing about variants which contain unusual combinations of formant, breath, voicing or Klatt parameters.

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Best regards,

Lo-lo
#nvda #espeak

#espeak #nvda

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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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