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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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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
Location Ottawa
Birthday 1987-12-20
Pronouns he/him (EN)
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1mo
@modulux @nolan @svenja Because everything else is worse.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1mo
@collectifission @nolan Not cross platform is a win imho. I’d rather a native app for each platform. Far more accessible. And I don’t want an electron app to eat another 3 gigs of ram.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1mo
@SRAZKVT @nolan @svenja Also getting voice rooms into irc is an awful hack no matter how you do it.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1mo
@nolan @svenja Maybe xmpp? Or something involving IRCV3?
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1mo
@JessicatheVIArtist @menelion The only way I’ve found is with an hdmi capture card.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1mo
Do you use with 64-bit ? If so, release v7 is now available, fixing bugs with say all and skim reading. An attempt was also made to handle unicode paths, but I'm unsure if it worked completely. github.com/fastfinge/eloquence_64/releases/tag/v7
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@twynn @jscholes Yup. I have a test build that I believe fixes the issue. Waiting for the original person who opened the bug to test and verify before I release. share.interfree.ca/app/open/8ULnfDwVFaD-NQETJUxJg4b-s5nBdPpomrm-CXWs2ADbWpE?view=1
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@twynn Huh. I'm baffled. Sadly, I have other things that need investigation first. Like how sometimes say all doesn't work if allow skim reading is on.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1mo
@twynn so if that character isn't in Shift_JIS, GBK, KS_C_5601-1987, or big5, it won't work. It's possible some Vietnamese characters are in there, but not others.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@twynn I'm glad it mostly worked. Text encoding scares me and I don't really understand it.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@twynn Yes, good idea! Note that if you use "create portable copy" you might need to copy the eloquence_host32.exe file manually, because NVDA won't copy those for security reasons. Thanks for the idea though! I really didn't want to make a new windows account just so I could try and test my fix for that. Also now I can just copy your character to the clipboard. I'm a sheltered English speaker so I don't even know how to type accents.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@twynn Not surprising. Eloquence itself doesn't support anything but the English alphabet. For Korean, Japanese, and Chinese, it actually has separate DLL files that turn all those characters into letters from the English alphabet, and then reads the text that way. That's why if you switch the Eloquence language to Korean, it can suddenly read hangul, and when you switch back to English, it can't anymore. We can't really fix that without the eloquence source code.

However, the problem I'm trying to fix is with eloquence loading at all. If you have any unicode or non-English characters in your Windows username, the addon will fail to load, because Eloquence can't read those characters, so it can't find its own .ini or .dll files because it can't access your user folder. That means you can't even use Eloquence in English. I need to figure out how to encode those paths so eloquence can deal with them.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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A bit of a long shot: Do I know any users who use , and also have unicode or accented characters in your Windows username? If so, could you try this addon: share.interfree.ca/app/open/BgrEksRM198-cPJtG4zRyz4-FXRWw6MoQXJ-htrEFTubCy1?view=1

And let me know if it works for you? If you know anyone, please do ping them.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1mo
@mcourcel @Tamasg We both lived in Toronto for years. So you're lucky you weren't the star of this one! LOL
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@Tamasg The worst thing was that we both got off the train at the same stop. We were going different places, at least. But still LOL
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@Tamasg Yeah true. I remember one time I was on the train, and a random sighted person said to me "Hey! There's another blind person just down the car! Don't you two know each other? Why aren't you sitting together? Here, I'll take you to him." I was like "No, I'm traveling alone. We're not together." Then the other blind person overheard the conversation, and it turned out we'd known each other for years. So we sat together and chatted for the rest of the train ride. I was so tempted to pretend I didn't know him at all, just so I didn't validate this random sighted person's stereotypes.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@Tamasg Yeah, that's the guy LOL. We're re-enforcing the stereotype that all blind people know each other!
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@Tamasg Also, could we maybe get a neural model that just overrides espeaks stress marks? That seems to be the main place espeak falls down.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@Tamasg I feel like it's caching something, somewhere. If I delete the addon and reinstall it, it has all different problems each time.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@Tamasg Also, another stress test I've been using on text to speech systems lately is the name of my friend "Hrvoje". It's croatian, and pronounced "her voy yay". Every AI text to speech system does something new and awful with it. So does every klatt system haha.