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@nick @mastoblind @main Oh, did it? Okay, maybe I'll try it then. Last I'd heard it was being stopped.

What are other #NVDAsr users using for a #Mastodon client on #Windows these days? I'd heard development stopped on FastSMRW. I've been using Fedra, but I'm having some issues in my home, local, and federated timelines with focus jumping off posts I'm trying to read, so I'm curious what my other options are.
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@Quentin No, I'm not familiar with it. Where can I learn more?

@kaveinthran I'm not sure these fit. This is a word predictor, not a text expander. I'll think about it though.

I run several communities for disabled people, and I've put them all in one place with join links. Some are for multiply disabled folks, and some are faith-based for Christians with any disability. If you've been looking for a space that fits, this is where to find them.
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@kev Done. V1.7.1 allows you to silence the automatic predictions, but NVDA+Alt+O still works, as do the number shortcuts to choose a prediction.
https://github.com/RareBird15/wordpredictor/releases/download/v1.7.1/wordPredictor-1.7.1.nvda-addon

@kev What do you mean? Not have automatic predictions?

@Lino0876 @kev I'm doing good. How are you?

@kev I just released v1.7.0. It's not iOS quality since I don't have Apple's resources but it should be a lot better. Give it a try and let me know what you think.
https://github.com/RareBird15/wordpredictor/releases/download/v1.7.0/wordPredictor-1.7.0.nvda-addon

WordPredictor v1.7.0 is out! 🎉

Big accuracy improvements this time:

• Retrained the LSTM on 20 million tokens of modern movie and TV dialogue instead of 19th-century literature, so predictions sound like how people actually talk.
• Extended the context window from 4 to 6 words.
• The LSTM now blends with the n-gram model instead of replacing it, combining context-aware suggestions with words learned from your own writing.
• Fixed a long-standing bug where accepting a prediction corrupted the context, making the next prediction ignore everything you'd typed before.

https://github.com/RareBird15/wordpredictor/releases/tag/v1.7.0

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@ppatel Hi. This should be implemented now. Redownload v1.6.0.

@kev Hi. It should learn as you type. I'll figure out what else I can do to make it more accurate, but did you enable the LSTM in the settings?

WordPredictor v1.6.0 is out! 🎉

This update adds an optional LSTM neural network predictor trained on 116 Project Gutenberg books. It provides context-aware predictions that complement the n-gram model. Toggle it on in Settings > Word Predictor.

The n-gram model remains the default. The LSTM is opt-in.

Bundled onnxruntime DLLs are included, so no extra install is needed.

https://github.com/RareBird15/wordpredictor/releases/tag/v1.6.0

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