https://kestrell.dreamwidth.org/ Kestrell - Dreamwidth Studios Mon, 02 Nov 2020 12:53:01 GMT LiveJournal / Dreamwidth Studios kestrell personal https://v2.dreamwidth.org/12439661/307003 https://kestrell.dreamwidth.org/ 69 100 https://kestrell.dreamwidth.org/368841.html Mon, 02 Nov 2020 12:53:01 GMT https://kestrell.dreamwidth.org/368841.html A search engine that will find the synthetic voice that most resembles the voice of whichever famous person you search for. <br /><br />I'm pretty sure the book _Talk to Me: How Voice Computing Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Think_ has a chapter about constructing a synthetic version of a real person's voice, but I haven't gotten to that part yet.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=kestrell&ditemid=368841" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://kestrell.dreamwidth.org/368841.html voice assistants tts voiceover accents public 0 https://kestrell.dreamwidth.org/320354.html Tue, 19 May 2020 13:17:34 GMT https://kestrell.dreamwidth.org/320354.html This is taking place in Zoom on Thursday.<br />More info here<br /><a href="https://benetech.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_wr-PZGgXQu-tDQLF-PghPw">https://benetech.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_wr-PZGgXQu-tDQLF-PghPw</a><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=kestrell&ditemid=320354" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://kestrell.dreamwidth.org/320354.html voice dream reader accessible apps accessible books bookshare iphone tts public 2 https://kestrell.dreamwidth.org/303955.html Mon, 10 Jun 2019 18:35:36 GMT https://kestrell.dreamwidth.org/303955.html Via the HowToGeek newsletter<br /><a href="https://www.howtogeek.com/415909/a-guide-to-your-chromebooks-accessibility-features/">https://www.howtogeek.com/415909/a-guide-to-your-chromebooks-accessibility-features/</a><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=kestrell&ditemid=303955" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://kestrell.dreamwidth.org/303955.html accessibility chromebook tts google disability tech public 0 https://kestrell.dreamwidth.org/302629.html Thu, 06 Jun 2019 16:05:44 GMT https://kestrell.dreamwidth.org/302629.html Yes, we are still fighting the fight against stereotypes that say readers who use TTS are less literate and less capable of absorbing and interpreting information than their peers who are not using such technology, so here are some more actual facts<br /><a href="http://blog.bookshare.org/2019/05/reframing-text-to-speech-vs-human-audio-debate/">http://blog.bookshare.org/2019/05/reframing-text-to-speech-vs-human-audio-debate/</a><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=kestrell&ditemid=302629" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://kestrell.dreamwidth.org/302629.html accessible books tts disability tech public 2 https://kestrell.dreamwidth.org/289516.html Mon, 18 Mar 2019 18:30:45 GMT https://kestrell.dreamwidth.org/289516.html <a href="https://thenextweb.com/tech/2019/03/18/worlds-first-genderless-voice-challenging-gender-stereotypes/">https://thenextweb.com/tech/2019/03/18/worlds-first-genderless-voice-challenging-gender-stereotypes/</a><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=kestrell&ditemid=289516" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://kestrell.dreamwidth.org/289516.html virtual assistant tts media studies gender public 1 https://kestrell.dreamwidth.org/199498.html Mon, 09 Jul 2012 19:03:57 GMT https://kestrell.dreamwidth.org/199498.html I like to check out the quotes Alexx's e-mails have in their sig files, and this si the one which I just misheard:<br /><br />Original quote: "CJE's LitCrit Rule of Thumb #12: Any story that needs a diagram to explain it needs a decent editor far more."<br /><br />What I heard: "CJE's LitCrit Rule of Thumb #12: Any story that needs a diaphragm to<br />explain it needs a decent editor far more."<br />&gt;<br />&gt;<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=kestrell&ditemid=199498" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://kestrell.dreamwidth.org/199498.html tts words public 2 https://kestrell.dreamwidth.org/89533.html Thu, 14 Oct 2010 12:18:29 GMT https://kestrell.dreamwidth.org/89533.html Kes: Okay, total TTS geekery here, but you know how I love those homicidal synthetic voices, especially when they have accents. Still, I would like to hear one of these software synths in a smackdown with an old-school DecTalk. <br />Harry Potter-style battle between the synthesizers used by JAWS and NVDA on YouTube.<br /><a href="http://goo.gl/nAOM">http://goo.gl/nAOM</a><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=kestrell&ditemid=89533" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://kestrell.dreamwidth.org/89533.html tts speech synthesizers public 0