• alapakala@quokk.auOP
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    22 hours ago

    I don’t have to imagine, I am legally blind. You’re the second digressive victimizer 🧵 not providing synthesized speech for every single 196 post & comment. I am providing contracted English IPA compliant text. If your TTS doesn’t support these characters& their sounds, it’s a choice issue, not a technical one.

    You don’t have to patronize me in language, I know 7. Your TTS may know less.

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      22 hours ago

      linux has 2 popular (useable) screenreaders that arent tied to the desktop enviroment, which i choose not to use for the sake of conserving power. both of these screenreaders are old and overall unmaintained. they didnt work on the most recent debian (bookwork) version a few years after that version had released, and i wouldnt be supprised if the same is true for the most recent version right now.

      while i could use gnome or kde, they have issues on my hardware that make it difficult to use (kde freezing, and for gnome my storage is very limited to under 256GB)

      its not like i havent chosen the good TTS, its that there isnt any good TTS afaik, that works on x11 and has good language support and is up to date and works without consuming all of my limited resources.

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        21 hours ago

        I can finally read your 本音, and sympathize with your struggles.
        My polycule & I want to emigrate to either Iceland or Luxembourg to rehost accessibility services in a cooperative internet service provision.
        Yeah, espeak is unmantained. And I need mutual aid to enby voicebank a TTS model I can yield free to use. Wife knows ASL, and she’s learning the rest to make MotionGens for your favorite characters in text to sign + synths.

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          20 hours ago

          awesome :3 i still have the ability to read and write with no help but the future might not be that way. also, i have great sympathy for those worse off than i am, and do my best to make what i create available to as many as i can