@philn No, IIUC from what Joannie says here, Orca relies on speech-dispatcher, I assume it has a Spiel plugin? I found plugins for Festival and Flite on Fedora. I tried the Flite one, which gave me barely better result than espeak. I'm trying to understand the state of TTS in general, but finding information isn't easy. https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/orca/-/issues/378
In FLOSS projects we tend to accept to take responsibility for what we do, but we tend to reject responsibility for what we don't do, as if not doing it wasn't a choice, conscient or not. Choosing bit to work on something is still doing something, and we really need to learn to take responsibility for that. Collectively and individually. I am as responsible of the sore state of text-to-speech on FLOSS ecosystems like GNOME as everyone else.
I see many excited to attend FOSDEM and I'm super happy for you, but I'd like to ask you a favor: please wear a mask indoor at FOSDEM and in public transports. Protect yourself and others, stop the FOSDEM flu cult. You wanted to prove the organizers you're not accepting Jack Dorsey, please prove you're better than them by taking seriously the diseases they wont. I've seen enough friends and strangers become severely disabled or die from flu or covid, please refuse to take part in this. #fosdem
@Infoseepage@cheetah_spottycat Also it offers a higher video quality than the competition, unlimited screens, and it works even without an internet connection! What a bargain!
Starting right now I'll try to use my Linux smartphone again (OnePlus 6 with postmarketOS and GNOME Shell) instead of my Android phone. Let's see how long it takes before I'm out of blood from all the papercuts this time.
I worked around the lack of night light support via the Bedtime Mode extension, that removes one of my main issues with it. 🙂️ The lack of camera support is the biggest remaining one.
What I mean is in one case your code is procedural and communicate with another machine through an API, in case of error you can just bail out as it's part of your API, and in the other your code is event-driven and communicate with a user through a GUI, errors have to result into a working UI, even if that UI is just presenting an error message.
J'en peux plus des péteux pétaradants, puants et polluants. Marre des mecs à moto monopolisant le moindre mètre carré. Leurs breu breu breu me font faire greu greu greu.
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