Replying to @destranis@tweesecake.social
@destranis It's okay. I know people who don't understand ESpeak. I do, but I can't work with it for long times.
André Polykanine
A married and happy geek from Strasbourg, France.
Backend software engineer and accessibility specialist with 20 years of experience.
I live with my wife and our two cats, and I believe cats are the cutest, yet the most independent companions.
Pagan, worshiper of Scandinavian gods.
This account is multilingual, posts may contain strong language.
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AI is our assistant, not our replacement, not our enemy.
Pro-European, pro-American, leaning to the right.
Opinions are my own.
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@ag Тоже никогда этого не понимал, но у меня это редчайший случай, когда нравится весь альбом и тем более когда я готов его слушать именно подряд много раз. Чаще всего это отдельные композиции. Но меня аудиофилом не назовёшь, я мп3 люблю)
Replying to @destranis@tweesecake.social
@destranis I switch for longer texts, like an article or a story I want to read. but otherwise… Newfon or Speaking Mouse forever!
Replying to @technocounselor@caneandable.social
@technocounselor Meow.
Replying to @destranis@tweesecake.social
@destranis @pixelate Nothing is wrong, it's just I don't use it except for testing. thanks to everyone who cares about SAPI.
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Replying to @FediTips@social.growyourown.services
p.s. The websites I run are:
https://fedi.tips - Easy-to-understand guides to using Mastodon and the wider Fediverse
https://fedi.directory - Recommended accounts to follow, sorted into topics and categories
https://fedi.garden - Highlighting nice, well-run servers to join
https://fedi.video - Curated selection of the best PeerTube channels
https://growyourown.services - Encouraging people to start their own servers
fedi.tips/Replying to @pixelate@tweesecake.social
@pixelate ah, NVDA again… sigh.
Replying to @pixelate@tweesecake.social
@pixelate Wait, Google TTS voices on windows? Is it an emulation of some kind? I really like their Ukrainian voice, still the best out there.
It seems, #Fable helped me to find a mysterious bug in #Windows #UIAutomation core. Nice! #ClaudeCode
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Wondering how many votes I'd get if I ran for President on the single issue of banning PDF documents. #a11y
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🧶#mastohelp #Allemagne Masto, j'ai besoin de ta magie : Progéniture est en Abibac (il prépare le bac français et le bac allemand en //) et il doit partir 2 mois en échange en Allemagne à partir de mi-mai. Seul problème : il faut qu'on trouve le ou la correspondant·e nous-mêmes :-(
Alors, oui, je connais l'ofaj, les Sauzay et tout le toutim, et on va remplir les trouzmilles doc pour ça (au fait, on est Erasmus+), mais si tu connais qqn qui connait un ou une prof de français en lycée en Allemagne (niv 9, 10, 11, c'est cool) ou mieux, un ou une jeune qui veut venir en France chez nous (où on lae chouchoutera, of course), ping me please!
Le repouet fait tomber les frontières.
Replying to @TheQuinbox@dragonscave.space
@TheQuinbox I'm curious, what RHVoice voice do you use? Because all English voices I saw before from them I can't stand at all.
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This is what I spent the first chunk of my three-day weekend doing. Quite fun! ;)
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Replying to @Nonya_Bidniss@infosec.exchange
@Nonya_Bidniss What you call "pervert glasses" give me greater #accessibility and independence as a #blind person. Good on Costco for stocking them. If you disagree, perhaps you can share your contact details so I can call on you any time at all to have things described, text read aloud, etc.
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Yes, I knew it but it's a great suggestion, thanks!
garo@garo@social.leons.ccDid you know that, in Claude Code, you can reference files directly using at, followed by the file name? Claude Code will automatically insert the file into the model's context. This saves tokens because it does not need ot find it first. For example, you can do a prompt like this:
Read @ todo.md and tell me what is due next.
Remove the space between the at sign and todo.md, I only placed it so it doesn't make some weird mention out of it.
#claude #claudecode
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Replying to @JustPlainTrace@mastodon.social
@JustPlainTrace this is definitely a boost and a follow. Will look at it, thank you!
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SpeechCraft Studio is live! 🎉.
I'm excited to share SpeechCraft Studio, a desktop audio editor for Windows, built from the ground up with screen reader accessibility in mind. It's free, open-source (MIT), and comes as a single .exe — no installer needed.
Read the story:
https://www.tracysmith.co.za/introducing-speechcraft-studio/
Download it:
https://github.com/trasles16-ux/speechcraft-audio/releases
I'd love to hear what you think. And if you'd like to contribute, the repo is open to pull requests. #Accessibility #OpenSource #AudioEditing #NVDA #AIDesktopApp