Mastodawn

Today, I downloaded the Piper, Neural TTS app on my iPhone. A couple of observations:

1. Due to what I believe is it's use of the length scale parameter to change speaking rate (I don't think there is actually another way to do this in Piper itself, pretty sure the Sonata addon for NVDA uses Sonicc), the speaking rate slider in Voiceover is actually the inverse of what you would expect. The higher the speaking rate, the slower the speech.

2. I tried to import a local voice that isn't in the community repository, and probably never will be. There is an 'import from files' button, which theoretically allows you to import a .onnx and it's accompanying .json file for a voice, but when I point to a folder and select files, then tap open, nothing at all happens, as far as I can tell. I am brought back to the main screen of the Piper app. I tried importing from a local folder on my phone, as well as Dropbox.
Has anyone experienced this behavior?

GraceTechNerd Mar 16

I’m excited that my Christmas present is finally arriving today. Yes, you herd that right. I ordered a circuit-bent Bop It Extreme with speed and volume control. It arrived in February, but the Spin It was broken. The seller repaired it free of charge, and it finally returns today. I’m planning to make a video soon and might go live to try beating it at both the fastest and slowest speeds.

GraceTechNerd Mar 13

I would love to share my feelings and experience of the CSUN assistive technology conference, but this server limits me to 500 characters. Do y’all know any mainstream servers with a much higher word limit?

GraceTechNerd Mar 5

If this posts... I would be really surprised it worked. I am trying to get fastSM to run on Linux, it is kind of working.

GraceTechNerd Feb 26

If you create a mastodon post from a bluetooth keyboard, is it BlueToot? Lol!

GraceTechNerd Feb 22

So the consensus on Mastodon seems to be that Piper TTS is no longer being maintained for NVDA. what are people switching to for cloned voices?

GraceTechNerd Feb 18

Something very peculiar has happened, and I’m wondering if this is just normal Internet service provider behavior, or if something glitched. Basically, yesterday we had a bit of a storm with rain and lots of wind. It knocked out the Internet for about a day and a half, and it came back on this afternoon, but with a completely new IP address. We’ve had power and Internet go out before, but it always comes back with the same IP address.

GraceTechNerd Feb 14

I took the admitted student tour for my college today, and we walked on campus for two hours. Later, I played goal ball for about an hour and a half. The result, I closed all of my rings, doubled move and exercise, and walked 2.8 miles.
I am tired.

GraceTechNerd Jan 29

Quick pull. Would you be interested in watching a YouTube live stream of me showing a rare Circuit Bent Bop It Extreme? It is on the way in the mail.

Yes

80%

I might stop by

20%

No

Poll ended at Feb 1 at 7:12pm.

GraceTechNerd Jan 27

@FastSM, I cannot use this on Linux. I installed everything, and when I run it wants python-espeak. The problem with python-espeak is that it requires espeak to be installed, not espeak-ng. Most distros now use espeak-ng. Am I doing something wrong on my end?