Re: some questions for chinese blind people
Re: some questions for chinese blind people ESpeak is a horrible idea for Mandarin, and so is Eloquence. Your best bet is probably Vocalizer in any of it's versions, or even iFly if you want to deal with ZDSR. But as far as I can tell, Vocalizer is the easiest to obtain with decent pronunciation. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=302120#p302120 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences
Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences Hi,I haven't had a chance to set up the Eureka in a while, but yesterday I finally got it booted again. I have been recording the various system sounds and sampling it's music synthesizer, and sometime this weekend I will make that song for you.Does anyone know of any screenreader that supported the A4's talker mode? URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=254150#p254150 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences
Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences I haven't been able to set up the A4 for now, but I will do it this weekend and send it to you. The way Jeff made the BNS sing was by changing the pitch and making it say simple syllables.There is a small chance that we might be able to access the sound mode of the Votrax soon. Pitermach and I both have BNS2000s, and we can record any sample of it you want. I will also be making recordings of all of the other devices I own.The BNS that used the Doubletalk synthesizer was called Scholar and was sold by APH back in the day. This is, of course, the same synthesizer used on the Bookport and Millenium series of the BrailleLite. Like pitermach said, it had a lot of parameters that the Blazie OS did not expose, which you can verify by reading any of the Doubletalk manuals available on the RCSystems website.The RC8650/60 both have the same voice. I actually like it, and I'm looking for someone who is trying to sell a used DoubleTalk. I might also try to find a way to hook up an RC8660 to a single-board computer such as a Raspberry Pi. It has been done before with Arduino. That might also be a way to get speech output from a Raspberry Pi without the audio issues, since the UART is recognized as a serial port I believe.The Votrax SC-02/Artic SSI-263 was used in a bunch of devices, including all the Artic synthesizer models, the Blazie notetakers and Blazer embosser, the Aycom Accent line of synthesizers, the Kentucky pocketBraille, and the GW Micro Speakout. Apparently, Artic made it sound pretty decent, but I have never heard those actually talk. Does anyone have a sample of an Artic synthesizer? URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=250563#p250563 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences
Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences I do still have the A4. I can't make it sing, but I know how to operate the music composer. Sadly I have the A4 standard. I wish I had the Pro, since that apparently had a Yamaha FM sythesizer. That would have been really cool to have. If you can give me a link to the song you want me to do, I can try to make it with the music composer and record it with a patch cable.The talker mode would work perfectly, but I don't actually know what character I have to send to it to make the speech stop. This means that I could theoretically hook it up to a computer and use it with a screenreader, but I wouldn't be able to interrupt the speech, which would suck. One of these days I'll get around to trying all the basic Ascii set when I'm bored. Most synthesizers used a control-x character, the KNG used a Control-C, the Sonobraille used... something weird that I can't remember, but the A4 doesn't respond to them. Does anyone know of any vintage screenrea der that supported the Eureka? I could capture what it sends with the BNS and figure it out that way. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=250017#p250017 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Rudimentary alarm system, no sneaking into my room!
Re: Rudimentary alarm system, no sneaking into my room! [[wow]]. This is actually really cool. I don't see a practical use for this system for myself, but I'm sure it's useful to some. I don't think I'd have ever thought of making an alarm system with USB device connection events. Theoretically this would work with any USB device that is recognized as an external drive, and with a bit of effort this could be converted to work under OS X, for example using Hammerspoon. The server part doesn't even need to be rewriten. The only part about this that I would have a problem with is the fact that I have to deal with one less USB port.There are a bunch of systems like this one out there. Usually they are open-source do-it-yourself kind of things, where they give you the instructions, the source code and nothing more, and you ave to build it all and set it up. This could very well be one of these, although I'd consider rewriting the client part in something else. Of course USB and sounds are two things that work very differently on different systems so you would need a few separate versions, but that's not too bad. If this project were to reach the mainstream market, BGT isn't something many people outside of the blind community know of. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=249626#p249626 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences
Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences I actually have the game aliens, but I don't know how it works. The problem is that the eureka that I have is running a version of the software which had Spanish speech, so it's even harder to understand what the damn thing is saying. I never tried too hard though so I might do that before I return it.There is actually an A4 on Ebay right now. Those come up from time to time. The Sonobraille is a different question though, because it was exclusive to Spain. I know people who used to work for the division of the blind organization who made the sonobraile, so I just asked them and they gave one to me. Same for the Ciber232.What I really love about the SB is taht it really is just a DOS computer. you can do damn near anything on that thing. The only issue is that it has a very strange flash memory which keeps losing sectors. I need to see if I can actually replace it with a mechanical hard drive, or reclaim the lost sectors.It also has a pretty obscure but really nice synthesizer, called Audiologic. It was originally Italian but they managed to put pronunciation rules for SPanish on top of it. It has a really weird Italian intonation but it sounds really nice.For those of you who had an A4, maybe you'll recognize this tune here:https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5686474/mc.mp3 URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=249519#p249519 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences
Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences Hi,I will be starting a webpage with resources for people wo are interested in getting into this sort of stuff. I already have part of it written and all I have to do is figure out a name for the project and publish it. Of course this will include recordings of all of these devices.Where were you planning to get an Accent SA from? Someone was about to sell me one but they stopped responding to my E-Mails a while ago and I can't get a hold of them anymore for some reason. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=249315#p249315 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences
Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences Hi all,As you may have heard if you follow my posts on here or know me outside this forum, lately I have been collecting vintage technology from the 80s/90s that I can use. It's not nostalgia, because I definitely wasn't around back then and never got to use any of those old systems, but it's still fun and something interesting to mess with in my free time. It's truly interesting to see what people had to deal with 20 or 25 years ago, before I was even born.I've been very, very lucky so far. I have managed to get a Braille 'n Speak 2000, a Sonobraille, two Ciberveu models, a VoiceNote Classic QT, and I even have a Eureka A4, which I'll have to return in a few weeks. And all of these I have obtained either for free or a really low price for what they are.I'm still looking for more people who are willing to sell me older devices, but now I've started to look into something even more interesting: actual home computers not specifically made for the blind.Of course, I've messed with MS-DOS. I've tried a whole bunch of screenreaders, and I'm thinking of getting an older laptop with a Sound BLaster and a serial port. There is also the Apple II with the famous Echo II Plus card and Textalker, but those are damn near impossible to find right now for some reason.I'm wondering if there is anyone on this forum who has any experience with other systems who could tell me more about them. One of the systems I've heard about lately is the BBC Micro. It sounds interesting, especially since BASIC has a built-in command to print everything to the serial port, although it's not RS232 (I wonder if there could be a way to adapt the pin-outs on a real system). There was also apparently a dedicated screenreader program for it, which I'm still trying to find. But the system itself is the main problem. It's not easy to get one of those, at least for someone living in Spa in. Most of the ones on Ebay are either wy too expensive, only sell to people who can physically go and pick up the item, or don't have a floppy drive.Do any of you know of any other systems that could potentially work with external speech synthesizers? Do you have any interesting stories about them? Are you trying to get rid of one of your old vintage devices? Please let me and anyone who is interested know on this thread.Thanks! URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=249105#p249105 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences
Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences My VoiceNote QT can actually be hooked up to a computer and used as a KNG. I've tried it before and I can even use it with NVDA.The Eureka is running a modified version of CP/M 2.2, I'm not sure how much I could mess with it, but since I have to return it I really don't want to break it.The Sonobraille is actually just a DOS machine with custom software on top of it. There is a command to exit to the DOS shell and you can do anything you want, since it has a soundblaster-compatible soundcard and 2 serial ports. I've played some DOS games on it, such as PCS breakout.I'm not sure how much shipping could be and what you would want to trade this for, but it's definitely interesting.USB synthesizers are pretty strange, I'm not sure how well they work as I've never had one myself. I have a PL2303 serial-usb adapter here, and it works perfectly. it emulates a serial port and anything can hook into it. I can use all o f my synthesizers with NVDA or any screenreader of my choice. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=249183#p249183 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences
Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences Yep, I know about MESS. It can actually emulate a bunch of systems apart from the Apple.The Apple II was the first system where I actually learned BASIC. Typing in MESS is kind of annoying, but it's still doable. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=249172#p249172 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences
Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences @Aaron: I don't think it's too hard to get a Speak 'n Spell on Ebay or something like that. I know I've found a few for as little as about $50, which is not too bad for something like this. The problem is that they had an ABC keyboard, not QWERTY. So typing on it is kind of meh. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=249169#p249169 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: hal 5.11
Re: hal 5.11 Just like KNG, the architecture the libraries were built for is not compatible with what we're using right now on modern systems. Making an NVDA add-on or SAPI synthesizer is not possible.Technically, you could connect the VM to a COM0COM port pair and use a terminal program that auto-reads with Hal on it, and send NVDA through to the VM. It would probably lag a bit, but it's one way of doing it. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=246459#p246459 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: online votrax synth!
Re: online votrax synth! I think part of the reason is to avoid spam. This is a random person who randomly has a Votrax and an Arduino wired up, not a company with multiple machines working 24/7 to convert text to speech. And it's very hard to find Votrax chips right now. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=242824#p242824 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: online votrax synth!
Re: online votrax synth! Hello,Just for clarification, this is not the synthesizer used in the BNS. That was a Votrax SC02/SSI263. The SC01 was used in products such as the Type 'n Talk or the Personal Speech System, and arcade games such as GORF. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=242364#p242364 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: keynote gold multimedia multilingual tts source code?
Re: keynote gold multimedia multilingual tts source code? That is what I've been trying to do for the last 2 or 3 years. My two previous attempts of getting a humanware notetaker failed, and I have never seen a Keynote SA sold anywhere. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=241634#p241634 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: best speech synthesizer
Re: best speech synthesizer @luis I just sent you a PM with the Skype username.@ammericandad I honestly don't like the Echo too much. It's fun to mess with, but it's pronunciation tables are horrible. Same for the BNS synthesizer. The Votrax was used in a bunch of devices, and the BNS probably has the worst pronunciation tables. I heard that Artic synthesizers like the transport sounded just like a bns, but with waaay better pronunciation tables. I have never had the chance to hear one of those. The Accent had pretty good tables, the PocketBraille seemed to bemostly OK, and the Speakout I think had similar tables to the BNS. I can't remember anything else that used the Votrax, but I'm sure there are more. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=241633#p241633 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: best speech synthesizer
Re: best speech synthesizer I don't understand what you're trying to tell me. I am not interested in selling the synthesizer. If you are looking for samples, or information on it, you can ask me. If you wish you can add me on Skype, my skype name is up on my profile page. It may be a bit easier for you to talk in your native language, as well. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=241522#p241522 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: best speech synthesizer
Re: best speech synthesizer @Dark, actually, you can use the Siri voices with VO with iOS 9. I personally like the UK female voice.@Luis, I don't understand why you need my address to develop these synths for NVDA. I doubt you can still get Ciber232/232P boxes. I got my 232P from my dad who used to own it, and the 232 was given to me by the national organization for the blind, together with the Sonobraille. They are fully external synthesizers, so there is still no way to emulate them. I do ahve a driver that I made so that NVDA can send the right stuff to the synth to make it work, but you still need the hardware and the cables. I do live in Spain, but I don't see how all the other information is relevant to you at this point. If you can find a way to obtain a BNS or a Ciberveu, I can help you set it up via Skype or some other chat service so that you can use them with NVDA. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=241516#p241516 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: keynote gold multimedia multilingual tts source code?
Re: keynote gold multimedia multilingual tts source code? Very few people these days use external synthesizers. I'm probably one of the few who do. I'm guessing HumanWare thought it wasn't really worth it to keep that around. It saves memory, I guess. What do you mean with "buggy"? Is the remote synthesizer really that bad? What problems does it have?I actually don't know how to get software on the unit. I don't even know how to update it if I can. I have never useda humanWare machine, so this'll be an interesting experience for me. Is there any place where I can get software for it? What operating system is the classic series running? URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=241546#p241546 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: best speech synthesizer
Re: best speech synthesizer I tend to switch synthesizers and languages all the time. On the Mac side of things. I'm usually using either Alex or Monica Compact. Monica Compact isn't all that natural, but I like the fact that it can go quite damn fast and still be perfectly understandable for a Vocalizer voice. Eloquence Spanish honestly sounds very very weird, especially the intonation which makes it sound like a very angry and depressed person if you listen to it carefully, but loads of people still use it, including myself. I do like Eloquence US English, but I've never liked the UK one. ESpeak has the opposte problem, the UK voice is OK and is very understandable and responsive, but the US voice honestly sounds fake as hell. I like natural voices for reading articles and books and such, so I usually go for either Vocalizer or Acapela when I can. They have great voices, although t heir Spanish ones are outdated as hell. The one thing they do have is a Catalan voice, which I'm thinking of buying at some point in my life.I also like older versions of DECtalk, their intonation and voice quality are very nice.If we go into older weirder synthesizers, I really love Keynote Gold, although it's pretty much impossible to use that on a newer system. I also like the Doubletalk. it's intonation has a very strange pattern, but the voice quality is just great. Also bassy as hell. I'm actually trying to get a hold of one of those.Another synth that I kind of like is Audiologic, which is very rare. I only have it on my Sonobraille, which is a spanish notetaker. I can use it as a synthesizer under Windows, but I'm wondering if anyone here has the libraries to use it with NVDA. I know there is a driver for it, I even had the sou rce somewhere, but it does require some DLLs. Maybe someone from Italy in this community can help me find it.To be honest with you I actually used to like Orpheus's intonation. I would actually be using synthetic dave quite a lot more if they hadn't made him all monotone and meh in newer versions. You can still adjust the intonation somewhat but you can't get the full sound of older versions. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=241102#p241102 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: keynote gold multimedia multilingual tts source code?
Re: keynote gold multimedia multilingual tts source code? Hi,@josh, I think we may have talked about this before, and I'll say this one more time. It would take way more effort than it's worth to reassemble KNG on a modern system so that it works with newer technology. I have to say that KNG is one of the old synths that I have always wanted to own, and that is why I just bought a VoiceNote Classic for a very reasonable price.The only reason why DECtalk is free is because people distributed the copies that they bought to other places. DECtalk originally was not free, and I don't think any of it's versions were, except for maybe the demo programs. Keynote was way less popular than DECtalk for whatever reason, and that makes the possibility of finding the original source ridiculously small. I have lost all hope on getting software Keynote speech, and I don't think messaging the long list of companies that the synthesizer was associated to (PDI, HumanWare, Berkeley Systems, L, etc...) will help. If you want Keynote on a newer system, find yourself a classic humanware notetaker or even a KNGSA and use that. I will be writing a simple NVDA driver for my VoiceNote when I get it. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=241101#p241101 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: best speech synthesizer
Re: best speech synthesizer Indeed it is fun. I do prefer Dave over the "natural" orpheus voices, but that might just be because I'm more of a formant synthesis person for most things.DECtalk is not what Stephen Hawkin uses. He is actually using the voice that was in the Prose2000, which was actually a synthesizer that I think some blind people used back in the day. Some people in the MESS project are actually working on emulating that thing. I kind of like it. It sounds a bit like TruVoice, but the voice quality is better. The only problem is that it sounds like something is pinching it's nose all the time.@FamilyMario TrippleTalk has the same voices as DoubleTalk, I believe. The only problem is that they are really overpriced for what they are. Hell, I could technically still buy a Doubletalk LT from RCSystems themselves, but they're not worth it at the moment. I might try to get just the RC8660 and hook it up to a Raspi0 or something, that would probably cost abo ut $60 as opposed to the $180 for a new DTLT or trippletalk. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=241131#p241131 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: best speech synthesizer
Re: best speech synthesizer Ah. You must have had a Prose2000 then. They were quite damn rare, I think. Nowadays perfect Paul seems to be the default voice for everything.I haven't had much experience with external synthesizers. I have a BNS2000, which is pretty responsive but has problems with it's buffering; a Ciber232 and Ciber232P, which are both ridiculously unresponsive although the 232P has a pretty cool voice; an Eureka A4, which I need to find a way to get to work because I don't know the speech commands; and a Sonobraille, which is actually very responsive, even more than some software synthesizers. Which is quite ironic because that one is the only one I have which is using software synthesis itself. I'll have to see what happens when I get this VoiceNote.Another fun synthesizer is SoftVoice. if you know the right commands, you can really mess with the way it talks. It's intonation may be a little weird, but it's fun to mess with. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=241187#p241187 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: program to change song keys without speeding up or distorting?
Re: program to change song keys without speeding up or distorting? There is no perfect speed change algorhythm, but if you look on google, there's a bunch that are specialized for music, and it's probably not hard to find a plugin for sound editors which uses that algorhythm. I believe there is something called WSOLA which is I think one of the best for music. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=235852#p235852 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Braille plus emulater!
Re: Braille plus emulater! @techmaster20 do you still have the source code for the firmware? I just bought a second hand BraillePlus and it could be interesting to screw around with the software.Thanks URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=229199#p229199 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: extremely disturbing news
Re: extremely disturbing news I believe I understand all of your points, even if I dont share them. I am sure this will happen again, but it will not be anything of my doing. I did all I needed to do. Oh, and Sam, I am very sorry because this may piss some people off, but I have to say that if Mason is just sitting in his room crying about his sourcecode and not implementing security in and being generally pissed off at life, after what happened? Then he has a problem. I have done everything I could. Talking to Mason included. But if after this he keeps being stubborn, then I think nothing good will come of it. Now all of you ultrapower players know that all your passwords are plain text. Believe me or not, I have not looked at any other user information besides Masons. But still this will put a lot of people at a higher level of alert, and some of the more radicalistic ones will stop playing. So right now, even thought this may just sound like an arrogant remark from a horrible person, I have to s ay that the one showing the most immaturity is Mason. Keyword most. I know what I did wasnt the best thing ever, morally. But Mason could have used it for his own good.End of rant. Sorry, I get way into this stuff. Lol URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=220296#p220296 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: extremely disturbing news
Re: extremely disturbing news That is exactly the point I tried to maek in my last post, Kyle. I am not sure it worked, and its quite sad. But Ill leave it up to him, and I hope you all will agree with me. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=220320#p220320 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: extremely disturbing news
Re: extremely disturbing news Hello,I am the individual known as Guillem (btw, thanks for giving that out, I had no intention to) who Sam has been talking about for the last day. I dont know what this will exactly get me, but it surely will be nothing good from most of you. I believe all the information you need is in the following message I sent to Sam a minute ago:Message start:Sam, the fact that I didnt respond has nothing to do with any of this. I ended up going to bed, so I had no idea you even sent a message. yes, I did leave my computer on, I do that all the time. But if you really want to know what happened, then I will tell you. Yes, Masons security is total and complete shit. Actually, I should say, its nonexistant. Ive had his password for half a god damn year, and have managed to get it from different systems about 3 times without him even noticing, thanks to the help of some other person whom I shall not mention. We never, ever used it for anything, and I am being 100% truthful here, believe it or not. Ive told Mason himself a few times that he should implement security, and he didnt give a shit about it. Literally everything someone had to do to get a users password was download a file from an http server and open it in notepad. All the passwords, including mine and even yours, were right there. Some of us were smart enough to use fake passwords because there was no way to trust Mason. I had absolutely no intention of using hihs password whatsoever, since I do not support this sort of stuff (yes, I have been hacked myself and it was my own fault, I know what it feels like). I had pretty much given up on Masons security issue, though. I was never a fan of his games, but I never intended on causing them damage. But when I heard about the whole thing with Mason getting hacked for the first time, I admit, I found it a bit funny. I found it funny that someone had actually stumbled uppon Masons securit y issue and used it to actually hack into Masons account. Or so I thought. When after loads of yelling, public screams for help like the audiogames.net thread and two mass skype messages, he announced it had been nothing but a prank, was the last straw. I ahd no intention of causing damage to him or anyone involved with his life, but he wasnt going to learn from people yelling at him about his security. Maybe I was a bit too hyper, maybe I thought that woudl be a way to make him learn, but the point is, me and the other person did get into his twitter and his skype. No matter how hyper or whatever the heck i was, I took extra care not to do anything that would endanger him or anyone who got involved in the process, but I did take care to do enough so he noticed that his security couldnt hold up to much, if anything. I didnt see it as a hostile move to cause him trouble, but as a nudge for him to actually get off his butt and code actual security into hi s projects, because he is not the only one being affected by this. He is putting absolutely all of you in risk. All of you who play his games, have your passwords stored as plain text. Yes, I did have people ask me what his password was when I casually told someone that Masons security was bad. And I think you will agree with me on the fact that, no matter how much I make fun of his security, I dont want to give personal information like that out. I didnt think it was safe enough in my hands, let alone in the hands of someone who wants it to, quote, give himself an infinite level on ultrapower and ban all the admins, unquote. All of the stuff that me and my friend did was not meant to cause any damage, again. Hell, I thought Mason would have noticed when I literally started having conversations with himself on his own timeline. Thats pretty much the whole story. I know this will get me yelled at, because no matter how I thought of what I did, Im sure ev ery one of you will just see it as a hack with no good intentions. But thats your choice. I know why I did what I did and thats enough for me. If Mason learns from this, I am happy, even if he hates my guts for the rest of his life. Oh, about your sourcecode going public, I have no idea how that happened. I gave absolutely nothing out, and I am 100% certain that other person didnt either. Right, thats all, I believe. Your move. Think what you will.Message end.For some of you this might be surprising, and for some of you who I have never met before, I know this is not a very good starting point. But like I said, think what you will. I did all that needed to be done and now its not my business any more than it needs to be.Thank you. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=220193#p220193 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: extremely disturbing news
Re: extremely disturbing news Coming forward about this was the only way to clear all the mess that this whole sequence of events created. I just thought it was right to do it because, even if it brought my reputation right down to hell, no-one would need to lie about anything anymore and everyone would know the true story from an irrefutable point of view.@kyle12 are you saying this just because you can? Honestly, reporting something like this, all between minors and with no intention of harm, would make no sense to me. I understand I may have been a bit too harsh. But going that far? I just dont know. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=220222#p220222 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Macintalk speech tags
Re: Macintalk speech tags You also have vol and pmod tags for volume and inflection. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=188008#p188008 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: A blog about the Raspberry Pi on a Raspberry Pi
Re: A blog about the Raspberry Pi on a Raspberry Pi Hi,As far as I know the problem is not with eSpeak, but with the way the sound driver handles speech synthesis itself, or something like that. According to what Ive read on the internet, out of all the synthesizers out there eSpeak seems to be the best on a Pi, but it still breaks up horribly on long sentences and skips phonemes on short ones. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=188009#p188009 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Searching for a portable binaural recording system
Re: Searching for a portable binaural recording system Hi,The Olympus itself cant be clipped to your clothes, but there are cheap clip-on microphone stands out there. I have one myself and its actually pretty nice. It has a switch for recording control and thats it.URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=176772#p176772 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Messapple Apple2E emulator issues
Re: Messapple Apple2E emulator issues I actually figured it out. Turns out it had to be in /system/library/frameworks, not /library/frameworks.As for the guy who asked what the emulator is, its an emulator for the Apple II computer. It does have a windows version, yes, but its not very goodURL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=176150#p176150 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
