jaybird110127

@jaybird110127@dragonscave.space

Blind computer geek from Louisville, Kentucky, USA.

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Okay, so has a new dubbing feature. Of course I had to try it, and I tried it with a certain German song that a few of my friends know very well, especially this version. I'm not sure, but I think this version is even funnier than the original! @BorrisInABox @cordova5029

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So in NVDA 2024.1, for some reason Addon Updater now opens a dialog when updates are available, rather than just a notification. I do not like this, as it could well interrupt something important I'm trying to do. I hate when something throws me out of focus when I'm trying to do something else, especially if I was just about to press Enter at the time, so I end up hitting Ok to something I didn't want to do for one reason or another. Any way to revert to the old behavior? Thanks.

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Okay, so there's this certain weird thing DECtalk does with some custom voices where the pitch totally doesn't do what it should. I really don't know how to explain it but I have a feeling it's a bug of some kind. Anyway, thanks to the [:spf] command recently introduced into DECtalk 4.99 we get to see this oddity in slow motion. DECtalk is only saying two words, but you can definitely hear what I'm talking about.

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Here's what happens when you play a very simple piano piece which I first learned in 1992/93, and I only know its name has something to do with Polka, at increasing speeds via MIDI. I think at some point the MidiText software got the timings slightly off, but whatever.

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It looks like I'm out of practice in the Aliens game found at https://files.jantrid.net/aliens/
Game over! :( You reached level 4 with 864 points. You hit 186 ships and 9 commanders.

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Before I go to bed, I present for your enjoyment or other usefulness, a stereo test audio file I just generated. It's the start of a Beethoven sonatina in G major, played on a square wave type of thing with synth drums. Melody in right channel, other parts in left channel, drums in center. The URL to the wav is: https://bluegrasspals.com/audio/StereoTest.wav and it's attached to this post so you can give it a listen right now. Enjoy or something!

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Okay, here's a question I thought I'd never have to ask. In these modern times, what is the generally accepted convention for referring to a person using a pronoun when you don't know/aren't sure of that person's gender? My first thought, as it has been for years, would be to use "they," but now that might make someone think the person in question was nonbinary/plural/etc. But "he/she/they/we/etc." seems awkward. Any thoughts?

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It's too bad "Rat race" isn't one of those Eloquence/IBMTTS word pairings @MutedTrampet was talking about a few weeks ago. If it were, the following seven-word chain would work. Can anyone think of one as long or longer that actually does work? Assembly language lab rat race horse shoe

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@nick I hope there's a way to turn off needing to use the FN key to hit function keys? Alt+F4 is such muscle memory for me.

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Twenty-five years ago today, on Monday, December 28, 1998, my sister Karolann gave me a bird clock. This is an analog wall clock that plays bird songs every hour. It's been sitting on my wall for the last twenty-five years, and is, to my knowledge, the oldest Christmas present I'm still actively using. Although it still works, I can tell its days are numbered. In particular, time has not been kind to the button you use to adjust what bird song plays, as it's really hard to make it actually work.
Several years ago I recorded all twelve bird songs using an electromagnetic pickup coil, which for those who don't know, lets you record audio almost as good as if the device had an audio output jack. I've never been able to find another clock with the same bird sounds on it. So have this recording for your enjoyment.
Bird songs: Great Horned Owl at 12:00, Northern Mockingbird, Black-Capped Chickadee, Northern Cardinal, Downy Woodpecker, Canada Goose, House Wren, American Robin, Song Sparrow, Belted Kingfisher, Tufted Titmouse & Baltimore Oriole.

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Please boost for reach. My dad wants a small computer for his birthday, to be used mainly for playing music in Winamp. As such, he doesn't need a real powerhouse. I've been looking at some approx. $150 stick computers on Amazon but some of them seem to get mixed reviews. He'd love Windows 10 as that's what we have on all our other PC's. He'd also love an audio output jack so he wouldn't need to use an external sound device, though I know that might be hard/impossible to find in this form factor. He's totally blind so it does need to run NVDA. He knows nothing about Linux, and I know nothing about Linux for this use case, so a Pi or similar that runs Linux isn't an option. Any recommendations?

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An Easter poll for everyone. Do you like peeps? If so, how?

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I just had the idea to take the bat sound from the Q9 audio game, as captured from the Learn Game Sounds menu (no, I don't have access to the raw assets), slow it down, repeat it several times, then have ElevenLabs make an instant cloned voice out of it. Here's the somewhat amusing result. First you hear the original bat noise, then the same noise slowed down, then text spoken by the new voice.

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Thanks to @FreakyFwoof and his playing of a piano exercise, "The Never Ending Story," that chord progression has been stuck in my mind. So naturally, I had to use it in playing with a Python program for auto-generating MIDI accompaniment files, MMA (Musical MIDI Accompaniment). In this audio rendering of a MIDI, I run through the whole chord progression four times. First at 120 beats per minute, with the Ballad groove, then RockBallad, then I speed up to 240 BPM and go with Bluegrass, then Polka, then have a very unsatisfying ending.

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When calling to try to make a medical appointment, I certainly was not expecting to hear this music…during the menu! The name of the facility has been bleeped out.

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Just had a rather strange experience. Someone posted, and used the acronym JFC. For a moment it didn't click for me as to what it meant, so naturally I asked Alexa. Her response? "I'd rather not answer that." I mean, really? Yes, I know now that the answer to my question contained a swear word, but why did it have to outright refuse to answer at all, rather than just bleeping out the offending word? That's what it does when it has no choice but to say such words, as when I've used the Alexa website or app to add an entry containing them to a shopping or to do list.

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Recently I boosted a link to an Apple II+ emulator written in Python. As expected, other than OCR which seems unreliable, there's no way to get at the text on the Apple screen. Now if only we could hook this up to Accessible Output or whatever the thing is to use these days, and have text printed to the screen sent through that to a screen reader, huh?

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Does anyone here know if anyone makes/sells a 220-240 volt US smart plug that will work with Alexa? Dad has an air conditioner that runs on 220-240 volts, and he'd love to put it on a smart plug so he can control it with Alexa.

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I just bought one of those cheap talking multimeters Amazon is selling, it cost me $20.99. I heard about it on the Raspberry-VI Email list. At any rate, here's a very brief demo of going through its different modes and checking the voltage of a battery. It has a completely different voice from the seemingly identical ones a few other people received and demoed.

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@FreakyFwoof So what's this music that's on your feed now? Just curious.

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Windows 10. How in the world does Discord set itself up to launch at system start? I want to disable it, but it's not in services, and it's not in Task Manager, Startup. Where else do I look? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

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I hate the Windows 10 setup thing that comes up every so often after an update. No, I do not want to use my Android phone (that I don't even have anyway) with Windows. Nor did I want to do that the 69,105 times you asked me before. No, I do not want to use OneDrive, just the same as the few dozen times you've asked this before. No, I do not want a subscription to Microsoft 365, nor do I want the app pinned to my taskbar. Just like last time, and the time before that, and the time before that, and…

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NVDA, Windows 10, Firefox: I'm on a website that has a graphic of a program schedule, which I want to read. How do I save a copy of the image so I can try various methods to OCR it? Obviously the real solution would be to contact the website and request a text copy, and I may do that if I can find a reasonable way to contact them, but I want to know how to do this anyway, in case it comes up again. Thanks for any help, and boosts appreciated.

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Okay, here I go down the Suno rabbit hole. For anyone who doesn't know, https://suno.ai is a site where you can specify a style of music and even provide your own lyrics if desired, and it'll generate a song fragment for you. So naturally, here's the first thing I did. Lyrics in alt text.

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I had a #WeirdDream last night. My family had bought a recording of a Billy Jole concert. For some reason, even though it was a new release, we were only able to get it on cassette. So my dad hooks up an old tape deck, I launch Studio Recorder on the PC and we start it recording. The first song is Piano Man, in the key of G. Once side 1 is done, I back up a bit in the recording, just to make sure it sounds good. It is then I find out that I selected the wrong input device, and somehow recorded nothing but screen reader speech.

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