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miki

@miki@dragonscave.space

blind coder / comp-sci student, working in automatic speech recognition for CLARIN. Polish. Libertarian leaning. Feel free to get in touch.

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miki, to random
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I feel like there's no operating system or screen reader that would give me the sort of stability and productivity I had around 2019-ish, with Windows 7 and pre-2020.1 NVDA with its speech dictionaries. Honestly the config I had back then made me feel like a God of doing things quickly.

There's a lot of good things to be said about Mac OS and VO, but that kind of productivity just isn't there. Windows is slightly better at the cost of much stability, but NVDA post speech refactor is far from what it used to be.

At least Mac has eSpeak with rate boost support now.

Caoimhe, to random
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How do you guys organise your clothes? Do you have any tricks or techniques to make managing them easier? Feel free to share.

miki,
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@Caoimhe I have these sock thingies, no idea what they're called. They have two holes, one for each sock in a pair, and they help you make sure your socks stay paired when washing.

I also sort clothes by category, T-shirts in one pile, underpants in another, socks in a third etc. I get everything in similar colors so that I don't have to wonder what goes with what. Darker stuff is usually better because it makes stains less visible.

bermudianbrit, to random

ok techy humans final query then I'm pulling the trigger on this build. All 3 of these graphics cards seem basically the same. Any of them worth choosing over any other for AI workloads because I don't give a damn about visual performance for obvious reasons: - 16GB Sparkle Intel ARC A770 Titan;

  • amd radeon rx7800 xt; or
  • 16GB NVIDIA Geforce RTX 4060 Ti

Thanks

miki,
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@bermudianbrit For anything AI, go with Nvidia. Software-wise, the competition just isn't there yet, even if their cards are theoretically capable of being just as good if not better.

miki, to random
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LaTeX pro tip:

If you need to write a simple fraction like 1/2, 1/4, 2/3 etc, where both the numerator and denominator are a single digit, you can just write \fracxy instead of \frac{x}{y}. I personally find this form to be far more readable with a screen reader and wish I discovered it sooner.

miki,
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@wizzwizz4 I was aware of this, but the particulars of LaTeX control sequences were too much for one toot, and this is the most common case for me.

weirdwriter, to SmallWeb

On TTS audio description https://robertkingett.com/posts/6567/ #IndieWeb #SmallWeb #NoPaywall

miki,
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@jackf723 @vick21 @weirdwriter This is how audio description on TV works, at least in most of Europe. That's how it has to be, terrestrial and satellite bandwidth is very limited, and wasting it on tracks that are used very infrequently is just unacceptable. As a broadcaster, you have a choice between overpaying for bandwidth for very little benefit, converting the AD mix to mono at some horrendously low bitrate, or overlaying the low-bitrate, mono AD track on top of normal, high-quality audio. Most broadcasters go for the last option.

miki,
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@jackf723 @vick21 @weirdwriter This isn't as easy as you think, movies from different sources may have different lengths, e.g. due to a PAL/NTSC difference, an extra Netflix logo etc.

The only approach which makes sense here is the german Greta system and its derivatives. It's essentially Shazam for movies, you pick a movie you want to watch, give it a short sample, and it syncs your audio description with the movie audio. The added benefit to this is that the AD is completely independent of the movie source, works in cinemas and can be played through your own headphones when watching a movie with sighted friends or family.

miki,
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@jscholes @jackf723 @vick21 @weirdwriter huh, I assumed satellite systems worked in the same way that the terrestrial ones do. You might be right though.

miki,
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@jscholes @jackf723 @vick21 @weirdwriter Poland does this somewhat regularly. We get audio description for quite a few football (soccer) matches here. It's quite surprising really, considering the fact that we barely get it for anything else. Soccer is the only thing that gets somewhat regular and consistent AD. The quality is quite crappy, I can't tell you the exact stream parameters but I know who to ask.

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