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With the greatest respect, how you present yourself on here is totally up to you, but if you're going to put long, complicated emojis on either side of your display name your posts are going to take a long time to read with a screenreader, it's just easier to skip. I want to read your thoughts, or anything else you post, not have to spend thirty seconds reading your name. Just a thought.
@lulu_bear Some fediverse clients have an option to remove emojis from user names. Enafore does, for instance. Might be worth checking. If not, consider bugging whoever maintains the apps that you use.
This avenue might be more successful than shaming people into changing their cultural norms to fit yours.
Trying the preview of Tiflotecnia's new Vocaliser NVDA add-on. They're so responsive although I wouldn't use it all the time as I'm not a huge fan of the voices.
For some reason, they have the Fiona one under English (Seychelles), rather than English (Scotland).
There seems to be duplicate versions of voices at the same quality level for some reason.
I'd also like to see a voice preview button.
@KaraLG84 It suffers from the same flaw all of these "modern" sample-based TTS's do which that it reads a sentence that ends with a period, a question mark, or an exclamation point all the same way. I'll grab the addon just to have it but it's not gonna be my daily driver.
I wholeheartedly disagree with Rowlings political view and her movement against trans people, but I absolutely love the book series that is Harry Potter. Thus i'm really looking forward to the project and will enjoy listening to those audio dramas as soon as they get released. I will however not pay a single cent for them, this woman will not see any more money from me, movements like these shouldn't get supported in any way. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/apr/25/audible-all-seven-jk-rowling-harry-potter-books-full-cast-audiobooks
@ToniBarth I gotta wonder about the pay scale for those audible narrators. If they are starting out as kids they are probably gonna make peanuts regardless of how well they sell.
The guys (and it’s always guys) who post online cheering layoffs talking about ‘bloat’ and ‘slack’ and ‘efficiency’: never think that perhaps they are the bloat
VOLlama v0.1.0, an open-source, accessible chat client for OLlama
Unfortunately, many user interfaces for open source large language models are either inaccessible or annoying to use with screen readers, so I decided to make one for myself and others. Non screen reder users are welcome to use it as well.
I hope that ML UI libraries like Streamlit and Gradio will become more friendly with screen readers in the future, so making apps like this is not necessary! #LLM#AI#ML https://chigkim.github.io/VOLlama/
If a blind student wants to do a CS undergrad specifically to work in assistive technology, what schools would be particularly good for that? (Feel free to boost for reach.)