#computer-generated voices

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Harnessing AI to Support Students with Disabilities in Education

Harnessing AI for Students with Disabilities Schools across the United States are facing the challenge of integrating artificial intelligence (AI) to support students with visual, speech, language, and hearing impairments in ways that many of their peers may take for granted. The education department has prioritized ensuring that the latest technological advancements reach students with…

[frobby]

playing EO2U again so i can see my original blorbo: flavio

[rohirric-hunter]

On the one hand, this movie is a lot more faithful to the platonic devotion present in the books than most other adaptations, even the elements of it that tend to make a lot of people uncomfortable -- on the other, the Nazgul are riding pegasi and I'm scared of Pippin's chin

[unnonexistence]

i wish there was a way to do podfics without having a recording of my voice on the internet forever

[icewindandboringhorror]

I occasionally wish to reach out to old friends/acquaintances I haven't spoken to since high school/some other even earlier time in my life, but I have SOOO little social energy even for required tasks (like making dr phone calls or etc), I never have any leftover for extra ones, and it would be very odd to message someone I haven't spoken to in like 5 years out of the blue but then take 4 entire months to respond back lol.. My natural curiosity with nostalgia/collecting details of the past/etc. (literally if I were born a little earlier I would definitely do scrapbooking or something lol) is very strong, but, alas, not strong enough to beat out the Social Issues Demons apparently

[unknown-lifeformthatdraws]

TMA doodles I finally decided to post lol

@abluehappyface @possibly-eli @space-frog-boy @pinelo-hearts

[lexicals]

The way the computer lines add to the atmosphere in this game is so good bc they're either subtly comedically jarring or, as in this case, some special kind of horrifying

[linabirb]

seeing synthv lite and flt covers brings me so much joy.. like wow.. i can make cool stuff even with the free voicebanks.. even if they sound more robotic than the full ones..

[rokkenjimaisland]

for the first time in idk how long i'm gonna have a laptop with an optical drive...maybe i can use this to justify ordering original copies of umineko and higurashi

[xiangqiankua]

山道猴子 this, 山道猴子 that... even the Carrefour employees are dressing up the mannequins like 山道猴子 characters (source)

《山道猴子的一生》, a low-quality 2-part youtube animation chronicling the dubious life choices of a fictional convenience store employee/sport bike influencer, has gone viral in Taiwan, but why?

深淵 shēnyuān / abyss 出圈 chū juàn / 出圈，網絡流行詞，飯圈常用語，一般指某位偶像或明星知名度變高，不止被粉絲小圈子所關注，開始進入大眾視野，變成真正的“公眾人物”。後來引申到不限於人，事件和物品也可以“出圈”。 崩世代 bēng shìdài / 「崩世代」一般指的是七年級生以後，這世代的年輕人在職場與社會上面臨貧富差距持續擴大、低薪、人口老化、出生率下降、失業、高房價等困境。 蜿�� wān yán / to wind, zigzag, meander (of a path or river etc) 苛刻 kēkè / harsh, demanding 車貸 chē dài / car loan 信貸 xìndài / credit 有毒男子氣概 yǒudú nánzǐ qìgài / toxic masculinity 邁進 màijìn / stride forward I can sort of see how it got popular from a satirical angle, but on the other hand I also felt a bit like I lost an hour of my life watching this (even in the name of listening practice...), proceed at your own risk

[jbirdoftheriverlands]

incredible

[alien-girl-21]

my mom's boss thought that my voice was computer generated HELLO????

[bmpmp3]

i dont really understand how to use kire/powerscale style voicebanks in utau but the more i use genbu the more i feel a little sad that synthv doesnt do standard banks anymore because i really think sv's tension parameter curves do wonderful things with this type of voicebank. a lot of power built in that you can then pull back carefully, like how i like my watercolour paint pigments to have really vibrant saturation right out of the tube so i can pull it back manually when i need to. and to say nothing of the fun bonus soft/falsetto phoneme groups even though i always forget to use them

[plainclothesdisaster]

DPxDC Mechanical Engineer Danny

Danny caught the attention of Batman while studying at Gotham University for his alternative energy projects. He’s hired right out of college to work on the Watchtower.

He shows absolutely no tell of his abilities till there’s a dire situation- Flash’s electric discharge messes with one of his projects in progress and the whole base would have lost air pressure if he hadn’t done a quick fix using telekinesis and ice.

Of course Batman notices.

Batman assumes the worst- he suspects Danny’s a rogue of some kind, someone who has infiltrated the Justice League with an ulterior motive. But he can’t just fire Danny now- he’s the only one who knows how the new Watchtower energy source works. Plus, he’s not letting Danny go anywhere until he’s figured out his true motives.

Cue Batman subtly testing Danny- tossing things at him to trigger inhuman fast reflexes, having him lift too-heavy machinery, setting up convenient opportunities to steal or snoop or otherwise be up to no good. Danny does take advantage but only once, to use a computer terminal with unlocked clearance. He didn’t plant any bugs that Barman could find, and he otherwise kept up his powerless civilian act perfectly.

Still, Batman’s not satisfied. He brings an infrasonic sound emitter to Danny’s lab one day, and that, of all things, is what gets Danny to break.

“I know what you’re doing,” Danny admits with a sigh, finally. “If you’re really that suspicious of me, I can leave, but I kinda like my job so I’d prefer not to. The benefits are insane compared to what’s standard.”

“I don’t know what you’re talking about.”

“Sure. yeah. How about you turn off the freaking noise generator and we can talk?”

“Hm.” Batman obliges, and he takes the stool next to Danny at his gesture.

“Number one, I’m not a meta. Despite all the data and conclusions you’ve probably drawn otherwise. Number two, I’m on your side. I’m here to work on the base, that’s it. I follow your rules to the letter.”

“The-“

“The classified files I looked at? Yeah that was the one exception. You already know what I looked at, I’m sure, but maybe you haven’t figured out why. It goes back to point one- I may not be a meta, but I am something that organization, the GIW, cares about. I looked at your files on them to sus out your relations. Seeing as I don’t particularly love being the victim to twelve degrees of human rights violations if I can avoid it.”

“Hm.” The Ghost Intelligence Ward was one of many government agencies that the Justice League hadn’t worked closely with. But they also hadn’t been flagged for Justice League investigation. Danny’s comments made him doubt that call.

“Any other questions?”

“If you’re not a meta, what are you?”

“I’m an engineer. A pretty decent one. And I’d really, really like it to stay that way.”

Batman considers, and ultimately lets him stay. He likes Danny (everyone likes Danny), and it would be a massive pain in the ass to replace him. He really is a good engineer.

It’s only much later that his faith in Danny is repaid in spades.

Batman finds Danny on the Watchtower command bridge. Alarms are blaring, the station has been knocked out of orbit, out the window there’s shrapnel floating everywhere as a space battle rages around them.

On the station it’s chaos. Technicians run around, shouts from the med bay, sparks from the walls.

Batman and Danny stand at the main controls, watching the battle outside, stoic, unmoving.

Wonder Woman’s harried voice crackles through on coms: “We need backup.”

“There is no more backup.” Batman replies, while looking pointedly at Danny.

“What?”

Batman doesn’t move.

“What.”

“The impact from Darkseid’s initial attack should have sent this station on a terminal trajectory toward the planet.”

“Well. We aren’t currently plummeting to our deaths, so turns out it didn’t do that.”

“You did something.”

“I don’t know what you’re talking about.”

“You’re lying.”

“Maybe Superman nudged us back on course in all the chaos.”

“I’ve been watching the trackers. No one else with the capability has come near the station.”

“Can’t you just be grateful we got lucky?”

Sounds of peril screech over the coms. Danny’s face scrunches.

“Luck had nothing to do with it. As it is now, we are going to lose this fight.”

“Isn’t there anyone else you can call?”

“I’m asking you. You can help, can’t you?”

The glare-off lasts a long moment more before Danny breaks.

“Fuck. Fuckity fuck.” Danny runs his hands through his hair. “Shit. You don’t know what you’re asking.”

“I’m asking you to save this and countless other worlds from a genocide. I’m also asking you to save my friends.”

Danny looks at him, hard, weary, and with a kind of deep resolve that feels far too ancient to be on the face of a supposed twenty-something.

“Fine. Fine. Okay.” He steps back and transforms. If Batman is surprised when he shakes off his human appearance like an old coat, he doesn’t show it. But what’s undeniable is the being in Danny’s place has the unmistakable presence of power.

“No one else can know.” His voice echoes in a way that’s sonically impossible, both sounding closer and further away than he should be.

He pulls a gear-shaped medallion seemingly out of thin air and puts it over his head in one motion.

“If I get in trouble for this, I’m blaming you.”

He vanishes. Outside, the shape of the battle changes instantly. The stars seem to glow brighter as the arms of the galaxy flash with the colors of the aurora. Then it’s like the void of space itself comes alive. It moves the spaceships back like they’re toys, plucking them from one side of the field to the other. It finds Darkseid at the heart of the chaos and massive arms of nothingness and darkness wrap around him. He’s screaming as it swallows him whole.

His armies scatter. The battle turns. The JL deal with the stragglers, but the air of relief is palpable.

Danny reappears next to Batman, once again donning his grease-stained coveralls. Arms folded.

“Happy?”

It took all of five minutes. Less, probably. Batman tamps down a thousand questions.

“Thank you.”

“I’m gonna need two weeks off minimum.” Danny snaps. “One to deal with the bureaucratic nightmare you’ve just caused me, and another to recover from the headache.”

Batman blanks. “Granted.”

Danny sighs. “And I’m not fixing the station until I’m back. It won’t fall out of the sky as is. Make up whatever excuse you want.”

“Done.” He considers. “I would prefer to tell them the truth. That you saved us.”

Danny glares. “I’m not supposed to save you. I made a pact not to use my power to influence the mortal realm.”

“A pact with who?”

Danny rolls his eyes. “The embodiment of Time. The concept of Justice. Among others.” He smirks at Batman’s confusion.

“And what, exactly, does that make you?”

He stands, framed by the space window, haloed by the stars. “I’ll give you three guesses.”

Batman frowns.

“Look. I like you guys. I like working on your base. I like supporting the work you do. But you can not go factoring me in to any of your plans or contingencies. This was a one time thing.

“So to answer your question again: I’m an engineer.”

[accessibleaesthetics]

#I would be down to read the audio description just to listen and read the many times looks distraught or any other synonym pops up #someone make this a reality

I hope you don't mind me responding to this, because this is a very common misconception. After all, an image description is a written version of the contents of the image, so it's natural to think that an audio description is a written description of the content of the audio. But that's actually called a transcript.

An audio description is an auditory description of the visuals in a video. It's designed to be in-sync with the video, or as much as is possible without talking over a bunch of the existing audio. Here are a few examples:

A clip from the movie The Imitation Game

Opening scene for Lion King

A trailer for the movie Frozen

These are examples of open audio description. Closed audio description works like closed captions; it's a button on the video player you can use to turn the audio descriptive track on or off. Sadly, having such a button is much more rare than a closed caption button, even on modern video players. If you're ever curious about exploring this though, streaming sites like Netflix provide closed audio descriptions for the vast majority of their content, you just need to turn it on in the settings.

In some cases, people will have the video automatically pause at certain points to give the audio description more time to be read. It then automatically resumes the video once the description is done. This is called extended audio description, and can be very useful in videos that don't really have many (if any) natural pauses in the base audio. Because it requires a lot of extra work to code, it's very rare in online spaces, and I've never seen it in a show or film.

Able Player is one of those rare players, and you can see an example of this kind of audio description in their Extended audio description via video swap sample. Just make sure to select the audio description button beside the captions button on the player before you start.

Very Silly Concept: a show called "Accessibility Nightmares" but it's structured exactly like Kitchen Nightmares. An accessibility specialist goes to different establishments and helps them make their businesses more accessible.

The accessibility specialist asks why the door at the top of the small set of stairs has a wheelchair symbol on it. The owner replies that's the accessible bathroom. The camera zooms in on the specialist as they process this information.

A customer with a service dog comes in to a restaurant. The hostess tells them they don't allow dogs. The accessibly specialist looks over at the hostess like

And there are web accessibility episodes too. The accessibility specialist stares at the white text on the light pink background of the home page like

The specialist asks why not a single product picture has alt text, and the business owner says "Well I mean, it's makeup, why would a blind person be shopping for makeup?" The specialist just

The specialist asks the web designer how a screen reader user is supposed to complete the captcha portion of the password reset process when there is no audio alternative. The designer admits they don't know.

[sugarwarachan]

18+ - older roommate! aizawa *barks*

you've only been aizawa's roommate for a couple months, but it's long enough to develop an absurd crush on him. he mostly keeps to himself, although lately he's taken to bringing you extra blankets when you fall asleep on the couch watching atla re-runs.

personally, you find it impossible to ignore him. he's broad and gruff and just manly in a way that makes your thighs press together whenever you see his chest hair poking out of his sleep shirt.

(the first time you saw the happy trail ducking into his sweatpants, you waited for him to leave for work before fucking yourself on the thickest dildo you own. you saw the outline of his cock; you know he's hung.)

the only saving grace of working your thankless job is that you can work remote, which usually leads to late nights hunched over the desk, blearily sorting data in cells.

just like how it is tonight, music blasting in your ears and an excel spreadsheet four inches away from your nose.

a hand falls on your shoulder.

flinging your headphones off, you whirl around to see aizawa backing away from you with his hands held up in surrender. he points at his ear. "your music will blow out your eardrums."

god, he's such a fucking dad sometimes.

(you do not let that thought linger longer than it has to.)

your voice comes out squeaky. "you scared me half to death!"

his lips quirk up, and fuck him for still being devastatingly handsome when he looks bone tired. "i should have announced myself. you okay?"

you rub your neck, one eye on the computer. "yeah, i'm fine."

aizawa zeroes in on the movement. "does your neck hurt?"

you can't help laughing. "i'm wound tight as a drum, so it's kind of par for the course."

he steps forward. "where does it hurt?"

"ummm..." your brain short-circuits. "sort of around here?" you gesture vaguely between your shoulder blades. "it's always the worst at the end of the day."

"turn around for me real quick, y/n."

you obey, and immediately, strong fingers sink into the muscles on either side of your neck. you shiver in his grasp at the unbelievable relief in tension.

"feel good?"

he's joking, right?

you manage a nod as he continues to work out the knots along your spine. "it feels really good."

he says nothing in reply, just keeps working the delicate muscles in your neck and shoulders until you're practically as loose as melted wax.

(later, when you've gone to bed, aizawa finally unbuckles his pants and releases his cock, flushed red and sticky with pre-cum and so sensitive to the touch that the second his palm slides over the shaft, he has to bite the inside of his cheek to distract himself from cumming all over his belly)

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