Brian Moore

@bmoore123@tweesecake.social
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lots of things. totally blind accessibility specialist for a financial institution however, this is a personal space and does not reflect my work. single parent. computer nerd, social activism volunteer and many others. Feel free to follow. love interacting with people.
@mcourcel @jfayre I should try that. is it free? I think not but I will go look
@TSchulte @soundshadow87 2.5 for this year and last too
@gtbray yeah, it might take time but it will be fun to try.
@gtbray yeah, that is why I want to try it since I don't actually have a plan.
okay, going through Pearson airport in a couple of wweeks. I think that is an Aira location. I have never tried that and I think I should. wonder if I can do it with my Meta glasses. I don't have an Aira plan so I didn't pay attention.
@Pawpower hope you win it!
Here's a demonstration of Richard, one of the two new Blastbay formant-based neural text to speech voices. In this demo, I've deliberately installed the trial version on one of my computers so you get to hear the degraded audio once the one-minute trial period ends. Transcript in alt text.
@gtbray @vlrny yes, this is my experience too. I don't have a choice for some of it. Our stuff is migrating to Telus health which I think might be even worse.

The cruel medical experiment on a black pregnant woman in Georgia will finally come to an end.

Adriana Smith was declared brain dead at 9 weeks pregnant after an ER sent her home with blood clots in her brain.

The hospital kept her body alive due to Georgia’s abortion ban

Adriana was a nurse who went to the ER due to severe headaches. She was dismissed despite blood clots in her brain and declared brain dead the next day.

Her body was placed on organ & tissue support due to the State’s strict abortion ban.

The family were not asked to consent. They had no say in the matter.

It’s generally not medically indicated to try and keep a body alive for a fetus of that age.

Only a handful of cases exist in the medical literature.

In the 35 cases studied, the median gestational age at time of brain death was 20 weeks, not 9.

27 neonates were born alive, only 8 were described as “healthy”

There was no medical precedent for what happened to Adriana.

In total she spent nearly 4 months on life support, all without her consent or the consent of next of kin.

The baby, Chance, has been born at 1lb 13oz and is in the NICU. Details about his prognosis are not yet known

The costs associated with both Adriana’s ICU stay and Chance’s NICU stay will be astronomical, and it remains to be seen if her family will be forced to pay them.

What we do know is the state forced this birth. The hospital forced this birth.

They won’t be the ones to care for the child, but they stripped Adriana and her family of their autonomy and dignity due to an abortion ban that seeks to control women.

They experimented on her to see if women can be treated as nothing more than vessels for fetuses.

Misogynoir killed Adriana, and then the State opted to experiment on her body.

That’s what happened here.

I’m glad that the baby has been born alive, and we should all hope for a good outcome, but we should be enraged this was allowed to happen in the first place.

My original article about Adriana Smith and medical misogyny looks at the policies of forced birth and what responsibility (if any) the government should have to provide to those it demands be brought into the world.

https://www.disabledginger.com/p/adriana-smith-misogyny-and-the-cruelty

#uspol #fascism #georgia #abortion #abortionishealthcare #roevwade #misogyny #misogynoir #adrianasmith

Adriana Smith, Misogyny and the Cruelty of Forced Birth

Adriana Smith couldn't access competent medical care when she needed it, and it killed her. Now the hospital is forcing 'care' on her by keeping her alive as an incubator due to Georgia's abortion ban

The Disabled Ginger
@gtbray pretty sure it will but you never know I guess
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Here's a demonstration of Richard, one of the two new Blastbay formant-based neural text to speech voices. In this demo, I've deliberately installed the trial version on one of my computers so you get to hear the degraded audio once the one-minute trial period ends. Transcript in alt text.
@jaybird110127 Good AudioMo.
@FreakyFwoof Yeah I didn't use the hashtag since I haven't been participating.
@jaybird110127 No reason not to, if you want to. Nobody has to participate once, twice or even at all.
@jaybird110127 @FreakyFwoof so getting involved in the middle of the month is perfectly acceptable? What is it anyway? I saw it this year, I saw it last year, and I still don’t understand it one little bit.
@evilcookies98 @jaybird110127 Posting audio in the month of June with the hashtag. That's it. That's all there is to it. You join a group of us that post a lot or a little. The AudioMo account boosts each one that joins the hash tag and posts audio, so it's seen by a group of people that are not necessarily your followers. It's fun.
@jaybird110127 @FreakyFwoof all right! That sounds like fun. I’m totally in.
@evilcookies98 @jaybird110127 Search for the hash tag. You'll find posts from all over the world, all sorts of people, you may even like some of them.
@jaybird110127 @FreakyFwoof this is awesome sauce. Too bad I wasn’t recording the other night when my glasses misidentified one of my audio games as a sex toy. That would’ve totally been worth posting.
@evilcookies98 @jaybird110127 If you look at the hash tag, you'll see all sorts of people joining in. Blind, sighted, it's probably the time when more sighted people post audio than ever before. Just because you didn't post every day this month, no reason stopping you posting even the once and never again if you don't wish to.
@jaybird110127 When the 1-minute trial period expired, it sounded like a rather low quality telephone line, with static and a pretty authentic phone filter thing going on. I've never heard any TTS trial do that before. This synth is very impressive. I hope more people purchase these voices.
@jaybird110127 @FreakyFwoof I am seriously considering purchasing. Glad to know tBlastBay is still out there making content. Quite a departure from Q9, but I like it.
@jaybird110127 Why do we need these? Legit, honest question. Why is he selling these, there aren't enough voices out there? What's the benefit of this?
@remixman @jaybird110127 Because, as much as some refuse to admit it, Eloquence has been living on borrowed time for years, and it's only a matter of time before it goes completely belly-up. How long can it keep getting patched, repatched, etc. before it just doesn't work? Dectalk has had a hell of a revival, but it's about as much of a legal grayarea as a fanfic. Besides, if we want any hope of mainstream accessibility in embedded devices - think kitchen appliances...
@jackf723 @jaybird110127 Sure. This is nothing like Eloquence, though, sadly.
@remixman @jackf723 See the original Audiogames thread. It's actually a lot like it in design, as I understand it, but thanks to modern technology, it sounds much more human.
@jaybird110127 @remixman It's also the principal of the matter. How long's it been since we've had a speech synthesizer truly built for performance hit the commercial market, much less one entirely developed, end-to-end, by someone with more than two decades of screen-reader use, who has not only r&d but all that lived experience with screen-readers to go off of in the build process? You had Dolphin Apolo/Juno/Orpheus as an example of a screen-reader company developing
@jaybird110127 @remixman their own end-to-end synthesis, and that was about it. Speakout/SoundingBoard worked off of existing end-to-end infrastructure. We almost had speechplayer, but if that used Espeak's phonemizer, it wouldn't be embeddable in commercial devices without opensourcing firmware. With this newly-released speech, we have,, possibly for the first time, a speech synthesizer built for us, by us, that truly has a fair shot at mainstream acceptance.
@remixman @jaybird110127 UEFI, etc. then there needs to be a modern, licensable, significantly lighter-weight tts that has the benefit of being formant-based while baring the good parts of neural synthesis, so that you have a synth that's a Eloquence/Dectalk levels of responsiveness for screen-readers/embedded devices, yet at the same time quite listenable for a general audience.
@jackf723 @remixman @jaybird110127 And just wait until NVDA goes all 64-bit after they end Windows 10 support. Unless somebody really goes the extra mile for it, IBM TTS will no longer be an option.
@sclower @remixman @jaybird110127 And even given someone with enough knowhow to develop a bitbridge, you'd need access to at least some of the Eloquence codebase to make it run well, and even then no one, even from Cerence, has the inclination or will to truly refactor it. And if Assistive Technology ever were a Price is Right/Sale-of-the-Century category, my money is on the guess that licensing costs Aple paid to Cerence would be in the tens of thousands. Lol.
@jaybird110127 Weirdly, I like the lq sound better. I'm weird, I guess. Make the lq one a totally free option that runs the whole time, not just after a minute? LOL