Engineer in industrial cybersecurity by day. Interests include Unix, security, cryptography. I know enough about sand to not let it do the thinking for me.
Non-technical interests are climbing, watchmaking, records, beer, and whisky. Oh, and MTG.
Will toot terrible puns in either English or French.
Trans rights are human rights. Fascists can rot in hell.
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There's a leak in my ceiling. The insurance arranges for someone to come and fix (after four weeks of durdling around).
Guy's not briefed. Comes with half the gear needed to do proper work. Uses mine haphazardly.
I'm staying there to oversee the works, because I really have no confidence in them doing a decent job otherwise (if at all).
« L’humain doit obligatoirement intervenir pour améliorer la production médiocre de la machine, et ce travail est particulièrement pénible, résume une traductrice. Selon un constat unanime, un travail de post-édition de qualité demande autant de temps qu’une traduction. Or, la post-édition est payée moitié moins. Pour tenter de s’en sortir, il faut accepter de travailler vite, et mal. »
Quel enfer.
La chaîne franco-allemande fait de plus en plus appel à la machine pour créer les sous-titres en sept langues de ses programmes. D’ici à la fin de l’année, 50 % de son catalogue sera traduit par IA, cantonnant les traducteurs à un fastidieux travail de « post-édition », payé moitié moins.
I made a keyboard because I needed one and nothing on Android was built for blind users. I put it on GitHub because someone else might need one. Then I woke up this morning and Mastodon had eaten it.
New blog post — what overnight virality actually looks like from the inside, the TalkBack problem nobody else bothered solving, Flexy, and why I spent the day building instead of panicking.
https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/i-made-a-keyboard-nobody-asked-for-my-experience-making-taptype/
TapType is out. It's a keyboard for blind Android users.
There are no visible keys. You tap where QWERTY keys would be from muscle memory, and a spatial prediction algorithm figures out what you meant. It scores nearby keys using a Gaussian proximity model and runs a beam search against an 80,000 word dictionary. You don't need to be precise. That's the whole point.
Swipe right to commit a word. Swipe down or up to cycle through suggestions. Swipe left to delete. It learns what words you use most and ranks them higher over time, and you can add your own words to a personal dictionary.
Every letter has its own unique sound, from Andre Louis's keyboard sound recordings, so you can learn to identify keys by ear without relying on speech. Each swipe direction has a distinct sound too. TTS is there when you want it, adjustable speed, and you can turn it off entirely if you prefer sounds only.
It has emoji search with skin tone selection and favourites, a number pad mode, an upper case mode, and full punctuation support with a customizable quick list. Two-finger gestures handle things like send, close keyboard, switch keyboard, and voice input.
Everything works with TalkBack. I built this because FlickType was a fantastic keyboard for blind iOS users and then it was gone. Nothing like it existed on Android, so I made one.
It's free, no ads, no tracking, no metrics. I'm not evil.
Edit: Now on 2.0 with multiple languages supported.
If you find TapType useful, consider supporting its development:
https://paypal.me/aaronhewitt
https://github.com/sponsors/aaron-gh
https://liberapay.com/fireborn/
Download: https://github.com/aaron-gh/taptype-releases/releases/latest
#TapType #Accessibility #A11y #Android #Blind #VisuallyImpaired #TalkBack #Keyboard #AssistiveTech
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