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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
3mo
For a project I was looking for a soundboard for Windows, where you assign hotkeys to a sound, and they play without bringing another window into focus. I'm surprised nobody has made this, with all of the radio broadcasters in our community. Surely Google is just failing me!
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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Do you speak another language? Do you wish the addon for 64-bit (version 2026 and above) was available in that language? Now it can be! Thanks to the hard work of CyrilleB79:
• french translation is available (by CyrilleB79)
• support for translations was added (also by CyrilleB79)
Sadly, as a monolingual person, I'm unfamiliar with the translation workflow. But it works the same way as other NVDA addons. All translation submissions are appreciated, with priority given to the languages eloquence supports. If there are no other changes that need releasing, I will release a new version of the addon every Friday with all available translation updates. You can install the addon via the updater, or find the latest release, along with a file called Eloquence.pot that I believe translators need, here: github.com/fastfinge/eloquence_64/releases/tag/v16

It looks like you need to make a file named nvda.po, then put it in:
addon/locale/your_two_letter_language_code/LC_MESSAGES
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
3mo
@cachondo @arfy @quanin I have similar memories. But they're so vague I can't put a finger on them. I find it hard to believe that nobody did NVDA support for mIRC, though!
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
3mo
@cachondo @quanin @arfy Huh. So did nobody do mirc and NVDA? Don’t make me do a thing! Lol
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
4mo
@Tamasg Wait you're not using espeak at all anymore? What are you using instead?
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@Tamasg Also test flight link? I will test flight! Seriously though, you've really worked your entire ass off, here. And it shows in the quality. Once it's on mobile, I intend to really give a serious attempt at using this 24/7 as my daily driver. I suspect I'll succeed, when IOS isn't just constantly pulling me back to eloquence. So congrats on your success! Obviously the entire goal of your project was to make a speech engine that Sam likes. Because everything is always about me forever LOL JK.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@Tamasg Just wanted to congratulate you on version 2.99 of TGSpeechbox! The impulse pitch mode is almost, almost eloquence now. The only real issue is the "o" sounds in words like social and mode being a bit too long haha. But I can now go as fast as eloquence for predictable work. I've got to slow it down quite a bit for reading, but I'm not sure how much of that is just that I haven't fully adapted to the new voice, yet.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@quanin @arfy @cachondo Good luck compiling vb6 today. Just rewrite that part in Python. All you do is listen for text and dump it to accessible output.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@quanin @arfy @cachondo Oh wow! This is old! Even before mirc script allowed loading of dll files. There’s no way this supports NVDA. Jaws 3.5 was still newish when this was born.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@quanin @arfy @cachondo Same way discord does it.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@quanin @arfy @cachondo I keep wanting to bring irc back in our community. But there’s just no good accessible iOS client. So it’s dead in the water.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@quanin @arfy @cachondo lol I think I forgot everything I ever new about Mirc. Also, all the old irc hangouts I knew of are dead dead. So I’ve got nowhere to test.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@quanin @arfy @cachondo You’d need to be on a network that uses them: ircv3.net/irc/
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@arfy @quanin @cachondo Last I heard none of the ui was accessible so nobody bothered to do much with it.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@quanin @arfy @cachondo I suspect there will be issues with the new irc v3 message types not being read.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@quanin @arfy @cachondo If it's anywhere, it'll be part of the installer when you unzip it. It might have also been dumped into your mirc directory in program files as well. Good grief this is making me feel old. Pretty sure as a teenager I touched, in at least some small way, every single talking IRC solution that ever existed.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@arfy @cachondo @quanin The installer is probably NSIS. So unzipping it instead of running it should get you the source. Or just send it to me and I'll make it a repo LOL. It still works and it should be online somewhere.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@quanin @arfy @cachondo In that case, who's ever it is, it's either GPL or IPL. Either way it can go on github.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@quanin @arfy @cachondo Is it bundled with a version of mIRC? Or does it install into an existing version of mIRC? If it's bundled with mirc, it's not mine. If it installs into an existing mIRC, it's either mine or Sean's. The one good thing about github, these days, is that abandoned projects stay there. This was long before github even existed LOL.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@quanin @arfy @cachondo So don't ever lose mircspeech. It's not on the internet anywhere anymore. Like totally gone. What version are you using? Is it the one by The Fudge and Mo/Ace? Or is it the one with my name on it? or the talking IRC one, Or the one Sean refactored? If it has my name on it please do feel free to dump it on github just so it's not lost forever.
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