#text to speech for computer

[thatneoncrisis]

disability as a deterrant aside, it is Really interesting to me how many people who want to get into writing just. do not want to read. at that point you have to ask yourself do you actually want to write, or do you just have a story in your head you want to get out, because there are multiple different mediums for that. you could do black out poetry honestly

[beatcroc]

hey mecha, do you think you could beat metal sonic in a 1v1

[theonewhowails]

in my head this is how Divine Inspiration works

[soapy-ocean-dragon]

/// > Just know this is what you're talking to when you interact with me.

/// > (Click for better quality please)

[iluumey]

first impressions after one episode, before i see more fan designs and think their cooler so i change my own design-

Sam: - seems like a flannel guy doesnt he? I was going to say his flannel is an assortment of greens and maybe blues but any green colour palette scares me so I'm leaving it for now - very neat hair i think, or at least groomed presentably? - slight stubble - eyebags (obligatory) gwen: - i know elias canonically had grey eyes but I'm also sure we all collectively ignored that and said he had either yellow or green so, gwen has yellow eyes. - blonde, because i also imagined elias to be blonde - would not wear business casual clothes it think. would just wear whatever she feels like alice: - gives redhead vibes - overalls, or that general fashion - sounds like she has her shit together - if you are the first person your ex turns to when they need help you're probably slaying

[greyeyedmonster-18]

(my favorite part of working with old men is how many ELLIPSES they use in their e-mails/communication.

"Okay...meeting at 12:15...see you then..."

like SIR, that was a perfectly articulate sentence, and yet it sounds so ominous and uncertain. never change)

[aran-morinorea]

mallachel is thinking some thoughts. im not tho im sleeby

Although – that isn’t fully accurate, right now, is it? He’s heard the summons, though he isn’t feeling it now. Melkor is – in Arda, and theoretically in reach. He should go back.

He should.

[icewindandboringhorror]

Various images of things

[captain-krow-drozdov]

They Put My Sad Little Guy In Windows 95

I Mean... Very Gender Of Him, But Still.

[fricc-darn]

BEN and Gabriel from Mandala Catalogue would be great horror duos… Gabriel reminds me so much of BEN. 💀

OMG YES THE BOTH OF THEM!! I have the most based thinkers on my blog 🫡

Another thing I think these two have in common is their voice! Now, their voices aren't the same by any means, it's just the fact they whisper. It freaks me out so much but it's so good!

[grant-li-wilson-my-beloved]

thinking about how chester, norris and augustus take on the role of the statement-giver in the same way jon & co did in tma

[resident-rats]

God proof reading stuff is so stressful lol, BUT I’m hoping it’ll be ready to post by the end of the week?????

[beatriceportinari]

why is it so convoluted to just listen to a book my god

[kippuchan]

As far as I know, when using Microsoft software, if you use the dictation, you can turn profanity filter off via the settings. I discovered this because I have recently been using the speech to text embedded within Microsoft word for some assignments (many teething problems, and not sure if the trade off between less hand pain, but more mental effort and rage is worth it). Anyway, I discovered that it censored crip (oh ho Apple speech to text just got crip and changed it to crap. I want crap CRIP.) which on the one hand nice that it recognises cripple as a slur (this should be slur- not slut no slow. SLUR.) But like. In the same way that queer is an academic term, so to is CRIP studies crip linguistics, critical disability studies. I’m not sure where I’m going with this but yeah censorship within speech to text is infantilising. And beyond that text to speech has a lot of its own issues. I’m hopefully getting access to slightly better speech to text stuff via uni, but it’s still difficult to accept that this might be the best way for me to engage with my studies.

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As an illustrative example, here is what speech to text originally transcribed for me. 

As far as I know, when using Microsoft software, if you use the dictation, you can turn profanity filter off via the settings. I discovered this because I have recently been using the speech to text embedded within Microsoft word for some assignments (many teething problems, and not sure if we trade off between left-hand pain, but more mental effort and rage is worth it) anyway, I discovered that it censored crap (oh ho Apple speech to text just got crap and changed it to crap. I want crap CRIP.) which on the one hand nice that it recognises cripple as a slut, slut, slut (this should be slow no slow. SLUR.) But like. In the same way that queer is an academic term, so to his crap, sorry crap. CRIP studies see our IP linguistics, critical disability studies. I’m not sure where I’m going with this but yeah censorship within text sorry speech to text is infantilising. And beyond that text to speech has a lot of its own issues I’m hopefully getting access to slightly better text speech speech to text stuff via uni, but it’s still difficult to except that this might be the best way for me to engage with my studies.

Holy **** oh right okay. So I was about to make a post about how using speech to text has already been a game changer for me but as you can see by the line of asterix at the start of this post the bloody thing auto censors swear words. (Yet bloody got through, ig Because it is a description and also British slang.). Hint: the word I was trying to say there starts with F and ends with K.

Oh and guess what else you can't say you can't say? **** [Nipples]. had to type that myself. penis is ok but **** [clitoris] isn't, and all my attempts to say "clit" were Misunderstood, which may just be my speech but at this point I am not willing to give the benefit of the doubt. Vagina is OK too but every time I say it there is a moment when an * shows up on screen first before the full word does. this doesn't happen when I say the word penis.

It is completely heinous. Anybody who needs speech to text is immediately forced to comply with the rules set out by people in a position of power and then enforced by a machine — a machine that is a very powerful accessibility tool. Imagine trying to dictate a letter to a doctor or fill in an E consult with speech to text, only to have words of your anatomy censored as if they are taboo. there is already far too much stigma around genital physical health — and note that I could say genital but can't say **** [clitoris] — for it to be okay for these words to be censored.

And even if somebody just wants to swear In a message to their friends or write smut/**** [pornography], they should be able to. There is no justification for this feature. No reason for it to be default.

I'm trying to find a way around this. There is a settings icon on the little speech to text bar that comes up, but this only gives me options For the speech typing launcher, auto punctuation, and to set the default microphone. it's making me extremely angry

[akascow]

i need audible but like for ao3 fics bc i yearn for the gay ships but i have to be in a very specific mindset and mood to sit down and read through it bc reading is the bane of my existence and i need to be doing at least three things at all times for my brain to be quiet or else i get bored which means i cant listen to music or play games bc i have to fuckim READ

[shironezuninja]

Making realizations from memory and discovery these past few days. And this is one former KidsWB commercial promo voice over announcer who doesn’t have me haunted by late 20th Century Disney Ducks.