KaraLG84

purplepadma, 1 hour ago to random

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??)

datajake1999, 7 hours ago 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

purplepadma, 17 hours ago to random

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, 1 day ago to random

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, 1 day ago to random

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.

pixelate, 1 day ago to accessibility

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.

#accessibility #apple #google #VoiceOver #blind #iOS #android

KaraLG84, 2 days ago to random

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, 2 days ago to Wikipedia

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
#GAAD #Wikipedia #Wikimedia

KaraLG84, 2 days ago to random

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

KaraLG84, 4 days ago to random

I've never used signal or Telegram. the accessibility of both is appalling.

simon, 4 days ago to random

Recaptcha is very forgiving with its audio captchas. Sometimes I'm given 1.5 words, so I enter just the one word and it works. Today I was given a clip from someone with a pretty strong accent and all I could make out from it is "transfers". So I entered "something something transfers", and it went through.
I'm pretty sure these can probably be defeated by modern transcription models, so I wonder how long we'll have such nice audio challenges.

KaraLG84, 4 days ago to random

Edited with more direct link.
Found this archive of Magnetic field recordings by Christina Kubisch.
@FreakyFwoof I think you'll like this.
https://electricalwalks.org/electromagnetic-sounds-archive/

KaraLG84, 5 days ago to random

I've been using Windows 10 since 2017 and have only just worked out how to turn off that bloody group by date thing in the downloads folder. View on the ribbon menu, group and set it to none.
sometimes I do find that useful, like in the recycle bin I'll set it to group by folders but for some reason I never thought it'd be that simple in Downloads.

victorgijsbers, 5 days ago to random

It may not be Stonehenge, but it's still pretty impressive (and a thousand years older): the 'hunebed' at Borger, built 5400 years ago by the funnelbeaker culture. It was used as a burial mound for important people -- it would have been covered with earth, with one or more entrances left open.

RickiTarr, 5 days ago to random

Seriously heard someone saying they don't listen to many black artists, because they aren't really into rap. Bitch please, feel free to share songs from Black artists from any genre. Here is one of my favorites, if you like this song please check out her other work:

https://youtu.be/KovrJ8HXI1Q?si=HOYIG7YMuAUTsJz6