Note by @fastfinge

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

I can't wait for how excited everyone's going to get when NVDA 2025.1 breaks eloquence and a bunch of other third party TTS addons by retiring WinMM and making Wasapi the only output method. There's going to be a lot of gnashing of teeth. The fix for threshhold is a one-line change, but I have no idea about ibmtts.

Mike Breedlove @stirlock@dragonscave.space

@fastfinge Well, if that's the case, I'm not fucking updating.

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

@stirlock The fix should be easy. But eventually, NVDA will be forced to go 64-bit, and that will break eloquence forever. My guess would be probably 2027.

Mike Breedlove @stirlock@dragonscave.space

@fastfinge Well, hopefully by then, this new replacement will actually be in a usable state. It's by the same lady that made eloq back in the old old days. Forget what it's called but it's been talked about for a couple years now

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

@stirlock Wasn’t she in need of government grants that she didn’t get, so the project was shelved?

Mike Breedlove @stirlock@dragonscave.space

@fastfinge I guess not? Heard something about it going into some sort of testing phase recently. Ask @jaybird110127, saw him boost it a few weeks ago.

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

@stirlock @jaybird110127 Oh! I’m glad it’s not dead. Hopefully we can get something good and cross platform.

Jayson Smith @jaybird110127@dragonscave.space

@stirlock @fastfinge Actually I have no idea what's going on with that. That testing announcement was from a year or two ago.

Mike Breedlove @stirlock@dragonscave.space

@jaybird110127 @fastfinge oh huh. Thought I remember seeing you boost that very recently

Jayson Smith @jaybird110127@dragonscave.space

@stirlock @fastfinge Yeah I know, I think I boosted that post before I actually looked at it, thinking something new had happened with it.