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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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Birthday 1987-12-20
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
6mo
@Tamasg Wait you're not using espeak at all anymore? What are you using instead?
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
6mo
@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
6mo
@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
6mo
@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
6mo
@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
6mo
@quanin @arfy @cachondo Same way discord does it.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
6mo
@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
6mo
@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
6mo
@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
6mo
@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
6mo
@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
6mo
@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
6mo
@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
6mo
@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
6mo
@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
6mo
@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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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
6mo
@MostlyBlindGamer Right. I admit that my problem was a bit underspecified. But if I'd handed you, a real human, a hundred lines of Python that does a bunch of string replacements and uses some regular expressions, and said I wanted to run this on my iPhone, your first reaction would probably not have been "turn it into a web app". Actually, your first reaction would have probably been "so install iSH and stop bothering me" LOL.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
6mo
@quanin @arfy I mean technically, the NVDA API has changed. But nobody uses the new functionality. I honestly wish I still had the code for sjams that me and @cachondo worked on years ago. It was my favourite incarnation of that concept, and would probably still work honestly. Just needs NVDA added.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
6mo
AI is both impressive and ridiculous. I have a little command line Python script that does some basic text reformatting stuff for me. I wanted a version that I could use on my phone. I gave Gemini the script, and asked it to make "a version of this program with the same functionality that I can use on my iphone, but with a textbox and some buttons instead of command line options." I expected it to rewrite this extremely simple Python file into JavaScript or something and give me an HTML file. Or if it wanted to do things the hard way, maybe swift. Nope! It installed uvicorn and requests and fastapi and a bunch of stuff and then rewrote the python script so it could import the existing functionality into the web app it just built. To be fair, it worked perfectly the first time, either on the command line or as a web server. But the original script was about 100 lines of Python! Rewriting it in JavaScript would've been much faster. And not required a reverse proxy and a bunch of deployment work. I guess it took "the same functionality" way too literally and decided the best way to achieve that would be to run the exact same code. When we talk about the impact of , nobody seems to be talking about the impact caused by running AI generated code for years to come. If I didn't know better, and was just an AI vibe coder, I'd now be running an entire docker and reverse proxy setup for something that could be done in the browser with a hundred or so lines of JavaScript. That's honestly a tiny impact individually, but over the course of hundreds and thousands of people and companies, it's going to add up.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
6mo
@arfy Yeah, sadly it seems like the client was abandoned and not open sourced.
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