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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.
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Location Ottawa
Birthday 1987-12-20
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@Tamasg Right, but they just used codex and probably included all of torch. There are onnxruntime versions available, and compiled versions in rust.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@Tamasg I've also been meaning to look into this. They advertise streaming TTS lag at faster than realtime on CPU, with 100 MS lag or less: github.com/kyutai-labs/pocket-tts?tab=readme-ov-file
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@Tamasg It's possible to get Onnxruntime to be snappy with a correctly optimized model, though. Blastbay TTS uses it.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@Tamasg I suspect you're going to wind up training your own g2p model. Eloquence can already output its phonemes, so you'd just have to write a script to convert from eloquence to IPA, and then you could just make a bunch of training data.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@Tamasg Also some phoneme tuning: thread and threat sound almost identical.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@Tamasg The lack of prosody markers is a blocker, though.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@Tamasg Yeah, not quite what we need. But a step in the right direction...
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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Tagging @Tamasg odorediamanka600-source/FYLs-G2P: A lightweight hybrid G2P engine with less than 1.8M parameters and can be deployed on any devices (almost) github.com/odorediamanka600-source/FYLs-G2P
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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Openclaw Is More Fun to Fiddle With Than To Use: Of course I have to write about , the latest viral sensation: stuff.interfree.ca/2026/02/06/openclaw.html
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@kaveinthran @Tamasg @nick It might be because the newer versions of the driver had settings that the older one didn't, and it's causing a crash. I'm really not sure; everything is different about the driver since I wrote that.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@kaveinthran @Tamasg @nick It only includes support for 64-bit NVDA, because gruut needs 64-bit.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@Tamasg @kaveinthran @nick Here, the version that used an ancient version of speech player was still on my file host. I won't be updating it, but if you want to have a play, here you go: share.interfree.ca/app/open/AX2qBbXiJ8D-2wZ6znjs4bv-nZAAAyQ1zkB-9FHwonCxUDQ?view=1
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@kaveinthran @Tamasg @nick Unlikely. It needed, like, 700 megs of just Python dependencies. And loading all that into NVDA slowed the entire thing down hugely.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@sclower I suspect it would work better if I wrote the project requirements document myself. Then fed it into the AI for implementation. Maybe it would shift me from thinking "What do I want coded" and towards "What are my requirements". I tend to start thinking too low level, about what libraries I want to use and what language, when I still haven't one hundred percent laid out what I want to do. The example that prompted me to post was reformatting a set of files. If I'd have thought just a bit harder about what I actually needed, I would have ended up with three regular expressions and a batch script, not a C# DotNet app.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@x0 I haven't looked into it, yet. But maybe?
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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Honestly the biggest problem with coding is that it lets me build things without having to think about what I want to build. It's happened twice now where the AI coded something perfectly, only for me to realize when I had exactly what I asked for, it wasn't what I needed or really wanted. I usually realize this during the act of building, and the act of building often helps me clarify what it is that I actually want.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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Today I learned that Google Gemini can understand ASCII maps like in nethacks or other roguelikes: Route to the Stairs
From your current position [@], follow these steps:
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Move East (Right): Move one room over to a cleared room [#].
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Move South (Down): Move one room down to another cleared room [#].
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Move South (Down) again: This will take you directly to the room containing the stairs [>].
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@mcourcel @jaybird110127 They are! And I went with a bank of interconnected EcoFlow's.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@jaybird110127 It actually cost me less than putting in an automatic switchover. Because I could do it myself, without requiring a licensed electrician, inspection from the power company, or a disconnect from the grid while it was installed. I looked at a propane generator with automatic switching, and between all the licenses and completely replacing the breaker box, it was going to cost me around 20 thousand dollars. I did this system for only eight thousand.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@jaybird110127 I have a hole home battery backup. However, I don't switch to it automatically. I want to ration power, so I switch circuit by circuit based on what's going on. For example, in the summer I don't put the hot tub circuit on it, but in the winter I have to in order to prevent the pipes from freezing. I also shut down the servers and then take the battery backup away from them. Assuming I ration to use only the essentials (medical equipment, lights, refrigeration) I can keep everything going for up to five days without electricity or a fuel delivery. Also, the battery system can be charged by a Tesla charger, or any other electric car charging station. And it's multiple batteries, so if I think after 60 hours I won't be getting power back, I can take one discharged battery and recharge it, and bring it back without interruption to the power.