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The state of modern AI text to speech systems for screen reader users

stuff.interfree.ca
102 points·by tuukkao·6개월 전·47 comments

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tuukkao
·6개월 전·discuss
Can you elaborate how an user interface based on conversation is even remotely as efficient as a keyboard-operated screen reader? With a screen reader I can get information out of a web page much quicker than the time it takes me to think how to ”ask” for it. The only advantage with this approach I could see (assuming there would be no hallucinating etc.) is that AI can extract things out of an inaccessible / unfamiliar interface. However, in all other respects this approach would effectively lock blind people to using only the capabilities the AI is able to do. As a blind software developer this idea of a supposedly viable user interface sounds patronising more than anything.
tuukkao
·8개월 전·discuss
Beets is what got me into MusicBrainz. It's an incredible resource. To be fair it's not the easiest of things to get started with and the usability could be better (release drafts, anyone?) but it's efficient once you get the hang of it.
tuukkao
·8개월 전·discuss
If you're using Navidrome or similar to stream your music then check out beets-alternatives [0]. It lets you sync (and optionally convert) your library or a subset of it to another location, in my case my music storage mounted with Rclone. It's especially useful if you need to have a different naming structure in your target directory for whatever reason. I like to keep each disc of a multi-disc album in in its own subdirectory but most streaming servers seem to prefer all tracks of an album to be in the same directory. With Beets-alternatives I can have a different naming structure for each collection vs. having to rename my primary collection to suit whatever streaming server I happen to be using.

[0]: https://github.com/geigerzaehler/beets-alternatives