maple "mavica" syrup, tech sorceress and verified robot
an alt to mostly follow and talk about retro tech stuff
| pronouns | it/its or byte/byteself |
| website | https://maple.pet |
| main | https://computerfairi.es/@mavica_again |
hi i made a new shirt
https://transbian.threadless.com/designs/crashout-wrecking-crew
go out there and do some damage
yes the idea is to find voices that sound robotic, synthesized
i know that's not what most people using TTS want them to sound like, that's why it's so hard for me to find what i want
yes i already know about dectalk. i know there are many other TTS engines from the 80s and 90s and those all feel like vapourware now because you can't find anything on them anymore
i want recommendations for free text to speech interfaces like those used for speech impaired people (screens of icons for quick vocabulary, customizable, with option for full text input)
bonus points for something with a highly customizable voice, or also seeking recommendations for any tts voice that's local, customizable, not genAI, runs on old hardware. i don't want solutions that only work with the system's black box TTS i have to find arcane packs for
please boost! 
i need money. you need a #pixelart avatar #commission
I just paid the UK Home Office nearly 4000 British Sterling Pounds™ in visa application fees in order to be allowed to live with my wife!
If you'd like to help contribute to our finances not looking so grim, please do! https://www.gofundme.com/f/get-taylor-and-millie-together #mutualaid
Pretty pleased with the load times, too. These are full-screen images ranging between ~20 and 38KB each. I got okay results with the usual Floyd-Steinberg dithering in GIMP, but I remembered #Ditherinator exists and that gave me a lot more control and way better results. The ability to turn down the amount of dithering is really helpful for the tile-based compression, since it allows more solid white and black spaces.
it occurs to me that a large portion of the #fediverse might have my home instance https://computerfairi.es silenced so i figure an announcement from here might get more traction:
i've recently released #ditherinator, a tool for real-time palette-reduction and dithering of images:
https://maple.pet/ditherinator
i've wanted a tool like this for years and i'm glad i can share it with you now!
please post cool pictures you make with it tagged #ditherinator so i can see them!
maple "mavica" syrup [6502]
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