completely blind computer geek, lover of science fiction and fantasy (especially LitRPG). I work in accessibility, but my opinions are my own, not that of my employer. Fandoms: Harry Potter, Discworld, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Buffy, Dead Like Me, Glee, and I'll read fanfic of pretty much anything that crosses over with one of those. keyoxide: aspe:keyoxide.org:PFAQDLXSBNO7MZRNPUMWWKQ7TQ
food, cooking, meat@dhamlinmusic I was using an instantpot, so no danger of that. You should get one. It's nice and deep, and heavy so you can stir without worry, and you can get one that works with an app. Like half my meals come from the instantpot.
food, cooking, meatI am the worst cook ever. I decided to make myself some lamb tonight. I wasn't really paying attention when I unwrapped it, and I assumed it was one big piece. I put it in a pot and sautéed one piece perfectly! But turns out it was two pieces just kind of stuck together a bit; I burnt the hell out of one side of the other piece. Not knowing it was there, I just never really flipped it over. Gonna eat it anyway, of course #blind#BlindProblems
@adam I had an old HP laptop, and something on it (maybe part of a driver, or part of the crap they install on consumer laptops, no idea) was called "running_program.exe". Well, uh, full marks for a technically correct name I guess.
And Windows isn't better. What's the "amdpmf service"? Whatever it is, my computer dies if it's not working. We have more than eight characters now, folks! But then, even when we do use more characters, we just call things the "Goodix Session Service". I hope that never has a problem, because God only knows what a Goodix Session is or why I need to have one. Yes, if it were Linux and open source, I could examine the code. But let's be real: I'm never going to look at the source code of something five layers down the dependency stack. When stuff breaks, impenetrable names are impenetrable, open source or closed.
Today's out of context error: "Failed to install weasel". Umm, well, okay. Why do computer people always name everything like this? Am I some day going to be wondering if the weasel demon is working in my computer? It was fine back when everyone knew what bits they were installing and what they were for. But now one package has five hundred dependencies, and all of those packages each depend on a hundred other things, and we're left wondering why we need to install the weasel into our computers, and having no idea why we can't, even if we knew why we should in the first place. Nobody would name a critical function or variable in the code "weasel" or "gimp" or "firefox" or whatever. Maybe we should start enforcing the same convention on packages and programs. "photo-editor" and "web-browser" and so on. I wonder how many casual Linux users know what a glibc or a fprobe is or why they need one?
@NoahCarver Because it won’t work when NVDA goes 64 bit. And there’s no legal way to purchase it for NVDA or sapi anymore, and obviously I can’t run cracks on my work computer.
First interesting learning in my journey of giving up eloquence: on IOS and Mac, the voice presets for the new Siri voices really, really matter. I have two versions of the same voice in my added voices, one for high speed and one for narration. Default is bad for everything, but the fast preset is quite nice for everything but reading long passages. For long passages it's jerky and unpleasant. But strangely setting narration and then speeding it up to the same rate sounds much better.
Second learning: Espeak on IOS is apparently abandoned. RHVoice hasn't had a release in a year. Vocalizer is the only choice if I want cross-platform voices. I'm just not sure if the advantage of getting used to a single voice is worth the horrible pain of that muddy Vocalizer sound.
@matt It's also possible that something in the Eloquence DLL files isn't emulating correctly, and my understanding could be wrong. But either way, eloquence doesn't run on an ARM Virtual Machine, Windows Emulation or not. Maybe Windows only emulates 64-bit not 32-bit X86? No idea.
@matt It's still X86 32-bit on X86/X64. But my understanding was that running on the Surface RT laptops and getting listed in the Microsoft Store required them to switch over to ARM Python, because the early RT laptops that only ran Windows Store apps didn't support emulation.
@matt Because NVDA is native ARM. So the Addon can't load the eloquence DLL files. I've tried it on an ARM virtual machine on mac. No go. I guess they'd have to do some kind of RPC the way the Sonata neural voices handle it.
@matt I love eloquence, and depend on it for my productivity. But now that codefactory eloquence is abandoned, I won't be able to use it with the next NVDA Update. And there is no way work is approving IBMTTS or Threshhold or any of the other hacky solutions. There's also talk of moving us to ARM laptops, where even those solutions won't run. So I have to start trying to move away while I can still take it slow.
@modulux Not sure yet. Looking into espeak, but it sucks on iOS. Maybe rh voice? I hate how muddy vocalizer sounds so not that. Maybe I give up on having the same voice on all platforms? I’m open to ideas!
@modulux Because I want to do it on my own time. Rather than be forced to do it when NVDA goes 64 bit. Or work converts us to arm laptops where eloquence won’t run.
