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While browsing Facebook, it suggested someone I might know. I have seen the person's name in various places before, but I don't actually know them. Still, I thought I'd check out their profile.
For the first time in my life, I saw someone describe themselves as a "neuro-artist" (taken almost directly from Russian) - meaning they make music using AI and sell it... Or something like that...
Honestly, I don't even know what to say... I want to be ironic and say I'm in high hopes these artists at least listen to the result, not like the developers who don't really like to test their stuff before releasing anything.

There are often periods in a person's life when they feel like nothing has any meaning. Sometimes you have no motivation, no desire, and no mood for anything at all. I think if I hadn't spent all summer learning Greek, I would have ended up in exactly that situation. Because apart from that, there wasn't much variety in my life. Of course, I met up with friends, and I even went to a small concert, but still.
But now I'm ready for anything, because all that studying has finally paid off. Even if it's only for two semesters, thanks to the elective courses at my university, I've been accepted into the Modern Greek program. Just barely, exactly enough for me to attend these courses and meet their requirements. But I got in, and they're happy to have me and are looking forward to having me there, because I successfully passed the assessment.
And that gives me a new push to keep doing everything I'm doing, even when I have absolutely no motivation left. Because sometimes the result comes precisely after it feels like you don't have the strength to keep going anymore.
Now all that's left is to somehow make a Greek voice for RHVoice so I don't have to listen to this horrible eSpeak anymore. 😂

Now that so many TTS engines have been ported to NVDA, does anyone happen to know if there are any speech synthesizers besides Vocalizer that support Greek? If so, where could I get them? I know about eSpeak, and it even needed a bit of tweaking in NVDA because unfortunately it's not perfect. But I'd be curious to know if there are any others.

Random question, but am I the only one who basically uses the same TTS for every language? Like, I'm Hungarian, and I listen to every language written in Latin script with Hungarian eSpeak. English, German, French, Spanish, Polish, all of them. I can't even imagine what it would be like to read English with Eloquence.
Of course, if I'm showing something to people who don't speak Hungarian, I'll switch to a different voice. But for myself, I don't. Obviously, I can't listen to Russian or Greek with the Hungarian voice (although I actually did that with Russian for about a year, until an NVDA addon came out that helped solve the problem), but apart from that, I listen to everything with a Hungarian accent.
I hope I'm not the only one like this 😂

Hello friends! Γεια σας! 😊 I'm from Hungary. I've been learning Greek for three and a half months. I really love the Greek language, culture, and music, and honestly, everything related to Greece. I first wanted to start learning Greek when I was about 13, but then a lot of things held me back, including the people around me telling me that it was useless. 😑 It is not, of course! But now, 11 years later, I finally decided to go for it. I found a wonderful teacher, Vasilis, and we've been learning with great enthusiasm ever since. However, I'd also like to practice what I'm learning. Is there anyone Greek here who would like to practice with me? In return, I can offer my help with Hungarian, since it's my native language. 😊 I don't know if such a thing exists here on Mastodon, but well, it worths a try.
#greek #languages #languageexchange #greece #culture #learning

This song has been haunting me for a long while now and I had no idea what it is. A Greek friend of mine helped me to identify it though but since I haven't found any decent versions yet, I decided to experiment with Suno. You can listen to the result here.
https://audiopub.site/listen/5992977a-0090-4eb6-8b62-cbd627cff2a6

#music #suno #greek

The feeling when, after getting Meta smart glasses, everyone assumes that all my blindness-related problems have suddenly been solved. As if I can suddenly see.
Today I was looking for something in the kitchen that I could make myself some food with, but since both of my sisters tend to do the same thing in there, nothing is usually where I left it. So I asked if anyone knew where a specific frying pan I was looking for was...
"Oh, but you have smart glasses now, why are you asking us?"
And it’s not like I can even say they don't know me... I've spent my entire life with them.
No, guys. Smart glasses don't allow us to see as you do.

#accessibility #a11y #blind #disabled

I just read a post about how pointless it is to argue about matters of taste, about what constitutes good taste. And you know what? I completely agree with that, right up until someone's taste devolves to the level of a caveman.
I absolutely will argue with someone who listens to overly sexualized, pornographic music while they’re only 12 years old. I absolutely will argue with someone who romanticizes drugs in the name of good taste simply because they're considered cool among young people.
Of course, I agree that taste is something people will never all agree on, and that it's a very subjective thing. But just like freedom of speech has its limits (you have freedom of speech as long as you're not using it to restrict someone else’s freedom), I think matters of taste have their limits too.

#thoughts #random

Everyone talks about how terrible it is when people don't use alt text when posting an image. But you never hear anyone talk about the fact that even blind people often have ridiculously long names consisting mostly of emojis, and whatever letters they do contain are written using some font or Unicode characters that a screen reader simply can’t process at all.
On top of that, mixing Cyrillic and Latin letters in longer posts is apparently a trend in Russian communities, and there's even a dedicated NVDA addon specifically so blind people can read this kind of text properly.
And instead of doing anything about it, people even share posts like these, because hey, you can technically read them somehow...

#blind #accessibility #a11y #images #awareness #disabled