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KaraLG84

@KaraLG84@dragonscave.space

I'm a disabled lesbian trans woman from The Northwest of England in the UK. I'm happily married.
I'm blind and have cerebral palsy.
My interests include music (both playing and listening), reading, films, Technology, all sorts.
I occasionally do some editing on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects.
I'm listed on NVAccess' certified expert program, although my certificate is extremely out of date.
#trans #disabled #blind #musician #UK #Nobot

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simon, to random

I'm glad all this AI stuff exists now, but it seems fragmented. I'm paying for ChatGPT Plus because it's a great iPhone app, but using the API on Windows. We have an NVDA addon that sends images to all the major models, but no way to chat with them normally. I wish we had just one nice cross-platform app that exposed all the different APIs and models across all the major companies, and allowed us to put in our own API keys. $20 for ChatGPT Plus is a truly ridiculous cost if you consider how far $20 of API credit will go, especially on the newest models. And I do have privacy concerns with the idea of sending images to two different companies to have them described. Maybe I need to look at one of the existing self-hosted web interfaces for this purpose and start making accessibility fixes where necessary.

KaraLG84,
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@simon There's an OpenAI add-on in the dev section that I think you can chat using but it fails to download its dependencies.

KaraLG84, to random
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Why did anyone think that Windows Recall is a good idea?

KaraLG84,
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@mikedoise Can it do that though? It looks like it only searches the images.

KaraLG84, to random
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A poem I heard on a podcast years ago:
A but can do every,
From go, have I just knowledge?
Like more not o people,
Quite rather so that us very will,
It, you as.

KaraLG84,
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Ok so a bit of info about this silly poem in case you wondered about it:
In Grade 2 English Braille, every letter written on it's own stands for a word. b = but, d = do, k = knowledge, etc.
So if you wrote the letters a to z in Braille, that's what you'd be saying, and I put some punctuation and line breaks in to try to make it look like what I remember hearing on the podcast.
I have no idea why x = it, and z = as.
the podcast in question was BlindKiss.

KaraLG84,
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I mean when I said every letter, a and i are of course already words, and they never bothered assigning one to o.

golgaloth, to writing
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I've been writing for so many years and I still get caught up on Discrete vs Discreet. Do any of you have words you struggle with?

https://www.dictionary.com/e/discreet-vs-discrete/

KaraLG84,
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@golgaloth It's and it's, waist and waste, affect and effect, quite a lot of them really
Also I only found about discrete and discreet by reading this post. I'd use discreet for both.

purplepadma, (edited ) to random
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I may have mentioned this before, but my best friend consumes no news. Zero. Not from TV, radio, internet news sites, newspapers… she doesn’t use social media. The other day she asked who the Prime Minister is right now. I reminded her that this a basic piece of information medics check you can remember to see if you may have a brain injury. I don’t know if I’m appalled by or envious of her stance. It’s a conscious decision, and she says it brings her happiness

KaraLG84,
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@purplepadma I really think they need to change that question with the amount we've had recently.

KaraLG84, to random
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Is there an online group for blind musicians that isn't Facebook? So an e-mail list, forum, discord server etc?
I don't mean one dedicated to your favourite DAW of choice, I'm in a couple of those already. I mean just a general musicians group if that makes sense.

purplepadma, to random
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Tell me you hate neurodivergent people without telling me you hate neurodivergent people… https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/19/haircut-without-talking-salon-session-stylist

KaraLG84,
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@purplepadma It lost me at "feign a bit of interest". Why should I pretend to care about something I don't? The mind boggles.

KaraLG84, to random
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It slightly worried me that the self-checkout in Aldi played the exclamation sound from Windows 95's Utopia sound scheme every time you scanned something. I just hope it wasn't actually running Windows 95.

purplepadma, to random
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Ooh, pre-order the new Stephen King short story collection to be delivered next week? Don’t mind if I do. Guess I must’ve forgiven him for his gross misuse of the word psychotic in his last novel (OR HAVE I??)

KaraLG84,
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@purplepadma He's a funny one isn't he? I love a lot of his books but he really does need to reign his neck in about a lot of things.

datajake1999, to random

I have uploaded installers for some old RealSpeak voices from 2002 or so. There is a SAPI4 installer that includes American English and some other languages, and a SAPI5 installer that installs the British Jane voice. It appears you aren't able to uninstall the SAPI4 version from control panel, you will have to run the MSI to uninstall. Here are the links to the installers.
Multilingual SAPI4 installer: https://datajake.braillescreen.net/tts/sapi_voices/Scansoft%20Realspeak%20Multilangue%20(Eng-Ger-Fra-Ita-Spa-Dut-Swe).msi
SAPI5 Jane Installer: https://datajake.braillescreen.net/tts/sapi_voices/Scansoft%20Jane%20British%20English.msi

KaraLG84,
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@datajake1999 Ooh I'll be grabbing the Jane voice later.

purplepadma, to random
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Going upstairs to read in bed soon, but is it OK to choose something lighter? I don’t think I can cope with reading about literal and cultural genocide right before I go to sleep

KaraLG84,
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@purplepadma Yes, it is and I hope you did.

KaraLG84, to random
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Morning.
I had a few weird dreams last night, including one where someone gave me a computer program that, when run, would make your pc play a loud noise after 16 years. I ran it then tried to get rid of it.

jscholes, to random
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Writing this on the Clicks keyboard case for iPhone. Not sure what I think of it yet... its certainly gonna take some getting used to.

KaraLG84,
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@jscholes I'm glad I didn't bother buying one. Thanks for this.

KaraLG84,
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@simon @jscholes I've somehow managed to find the portrait keyboard easier to type on than the landscape one so I probably wouldn't find that to be a problem. It's everything else for me.

pixelate, to accessibility
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It's June 10, 2024, at 4:00 PM Central US time. Almost every blind person that owns an iPhone has installed the iOS 18 beta. Some are playing retro games with the new, AI driven screen recognition. Others are gladly using DecTalk as their main voice, the Enhanced Siri voices that use ML to speak using emotion and context, as their reading voice, Eloquence as their notification voice (sent to one ear to minimize distractions), and finding it amazing that VoiceOver emphasizes italic text, and emboldens bold text. Others are finding it amazing that they can navigate their whole phone using Braille screen input, searching to find things by typing a few letters, or just swiping down through everything. A few are connecting their multi-line Braille displays, and feeling app icons and images, made much more understandable through touch, using an AI filter.

The next day, when news of all these features filters down to Android users, they quickly begin hammering Google, wanting DecTalk and Eloquence on their Pixel phones, like iOS users have. But Google is silent as always, only just now having given Chromebook users high quality Google TTS voices.

Note: great liberty has been taken to imagine the coolest outcome for the vague feature announcements Apple gave for VoiceOver users. We'll see just how cool, or not, they actually are on June 10.

KaraLG84,
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@datajake1999 @pixelate @Lottie I wondered about that. I've never heard of that HumanVoice company before. Googling for it brings up an insecure webpage that doesn't appear to have anything to do with dectalk.

KaraLG84, to random
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I think there's a shortage of reviews out there of blindness products, and if I find any at all they tend to all be in Accessworld or the Braille Monitor. Something needs to be done about it but I dunno what.\

KaraLG84, to Wikipedia
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Wikipedia mentions that it's Global Accessibility Awareness Day on the English version's main page, but to create an account on there and many of the Wikimedia Foundation's other projects you have to complete an inaccessible captcha. They offer an option for someone to create an account for you if you can't fill it in, but that's not good enough.
There's been a ticket open about this since 2006 according to the date stamp and nothing's been done.
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T6845

KaraLG84,
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@miki I'm not surprised. I asked my wife to fill it out for me.

KaraLG84, to random
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So today is Global Accessibility Awareness day or GAAD. I love that Eloquence's American English voice pronounces that as god.

KaraLG84, to random
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I've never used signal or Telegram. the accessibility of both is appalling.

KaraLG84,
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@talon @weirdwriter Ah the last I heard anything about it it wasn't. glad it's been improved then.

KaraLG84,
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@talon @weirdwriter It could well be that I've put 2 and 2 together and made 5. It was a while ago.

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