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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
7mo
@Tamasg So one thing to think about: If people change settings in the NVDA addon, then you release an update, it looks like there settings aren't always updated. And it's really, really easy to break subtle things. If I were you I might consider adding a reset to defaults button in the addon. Because otherwise you're going to get feedback from people who toggled a checkbox like co-articulation without thinking about any of the associated settings and now wonder why everything sounds bad.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
7mo
@Tamasg But what has been helpful is using your tool to show me just how wrong everything I have tried for formant estimation actually is. So it's been useful in that I can generate audio with known values, give it to my formant estimation attempt, and know that my estimated data is incorrect.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
7mo
@Tamasg What I've been playing with, and why you haven't heard much from me, is trying to create some good way to extract formants from existing sounds, in an accessible way. Thus far, though, nothing has worked, or been as accessible as I want it to be. It involves matlab and other terrible things. But what I really really want is something where I can put in a second of sound and get an estimate of all the formants and transitions, and then use the tools you created to compare them. But I haven't gotten close enough to have anything to share.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
7mo
@Tamasg The key is to realize this can't be only your project. Think of it like you're founding an organization that needs to persist over the years. You're already doing that work, by documenting everything really well, and giving lots of people other features they can use. As well as creating tools. But your goal should be getting it into a state you, personally, like, and then in moving towards having other people in charge of different things. So all you do is final tests and sign off on releases.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
7mo
Huh. Sourceforge is still a thing. I'm sure someone, somewhere, is even still using it.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
7mo
@Jage No no this is the fediverse. If you have ever used AI even once, for captions, alt text, or language translation, you are guilty of war crimes against humanity. No but seriously, look at openrouter.ai. If you're using codex-cli, you can just change the endpoint to openrouter, get an API key from them, and then pay per token. Or just use this fork with built-in openrouter support: github.com/ymichael/open-codex
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
7mo
@Tamasg Also liking Robert with the 16 khz sample rate. Reminds me of the Toshiba TTS that used to come with old Toshiba laptops, if you've ever heard that one.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
7mo
@J3317 @stevenscott Yeah, we're getting down to minus 37 with the windchill tonight.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
7mo
@SeveraSnape Hmmm, I can't even see news. So you're getting farther than me.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
7mo
@stevenscott What about your Canadian friends? Eh, we're used to it. LOL JK
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@SeveraSnape Yeah, just says "Redirecting..." and never loads. Not just you.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
7mo
@Tamasg Speak for yourself! This voice I made that just makes high pitched squealing noises that causes weird harmonics in my headphones is exactly what I wanted. Now I have an on demand headache generator. Perfect for work meetings I'd rather not attend! LOL JK
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
7mo
@Tamasg Yeah, that's what I'm fiddling with. Just made everything worse, though. haha.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
7mo
@Tamasg Almost like the energy from the pulses is too narrow somehow? Maybe. Hmmm. If you change the sample rate on IOS, eloquence develops a weird lisp. So this tells us that whatever they're doing depends on the weird sample rate to sound good.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
7mo
@Tamasg It's amazing how different 11025 sounds. Also makes Adam sound way better, and benjamin way worse.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
7mo
@greengaybles Maybe an icemaker? At least they make ice much faster than a tray in the fridge. You can purchase some stand-alone decent ones for not too much money. Plus when they're making ice they have a loud fan noise. So that might work as a reminder of what you're doing.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
7mo
@jdking92 @Rosalyn I just wish they'd get the same issue with links that tweesecake had sorted out. A lot of posts that absolutely have links it says have no links and you have to use the clipboard. I filed an issue with some approaches I think would work and an offer to make a pr, so we shall see.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
7mo
@Rosalyn I'm using it right now. It still has some issues that make it not quite ready for primetime. But they all seem quite fixable.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
7mo
@Tamasg Hah. Sample rate changes were the next thing I was going to suggest. We think alike, apparently.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
7mo
@Rosalyn I think it's probably because the windows clients are falling further and further behind. TWBlue doesn't support polls. Tweesecake still has a bunch of issues and no updates in like a year. Even if people liked web clients, Enafore still has issues with notifications and not updating timelines sometimes. On top of that, Mona on IOS and mac released a new paid version, so people would have to subscribe to it; it's not a one-time purchase anymore. If FastSM ever gets off the ground, or TWBlue gets the promised updates, activity will probably go back up a little. But if FastSM becomes the won, it also supports bluesky, so we might see the community split a bit now that they have a choice.
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