resources for picking up indian languages
Hi,Over the last few weeks I've been looking into a number of the languages spoken in and around India, mainly Hindi and Gujarati. I'm interested in doing some independent studying of these languages, but am finding it very difficult to find
Re: Dell XPS 13 or Macbook Pro 13
I am going to have to agree with poster 10 here. Although mac OS X is definitely a usable product, the fact that numerous bugs (see applevis) have been spotted and some tend to go unfixed for literally years prevents me from actually recommending this
Re: turning off laptop screen?
It always amazes me how well people read The OP has clearly stated he is in fact NOT using a mac any more, and closing your laptop's lid ... I suppose that could work but i'm not sure if your screen actually turns itself off if you set it to 'do nothing' in
Re: turning off laptop screen?
Some graphics ards are too smart for this it seems. On my laptop this trick doesn't work anymore either, nor does the fn trick.
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Re: Help please with amazon ecco dot.
I find it amusing that you villify me for wrist slapping and subsequently try to do the same to me, I really do Also, it took quite a bit to push me to the rant I put out yesterday. No malice was meant in any way, it was more meant as a reality check.
Re: Help please with amazon ecco dot.
I like your ideal world view. You will find that you will get the reaction I gave far more often than the reaction you are hoping for though. When people throw things out there without having done some research beforehand, it really comes across as not
Re: Help please with amazon ecco dot.
I find it amusing that you villify me for wrist slapping and subsequently try to do the same to me, I really do Also, it took quite a bit to push me to the rant I put out yesterday. No malice was meant in any way, it was more meant as a reality check.
Re: Help please with amazon ecco dot.
ok, first. Calm the heck down.Raging at anything and everything isn't going to solve anything. People are giving you advice, it would be good if you wouldn't selectively read it but actually take the whole into account. I will summarize it for you
Re: A couple of windows 10 questions
Ok ...have you tried the start menu search? The subfolders in the start menu you are referring to actually still exist, they are kind of well hidden though. I tend to use search for almost everything and at that point it really doesn't matter WHERE
Re: A couple of windows 10 questions
Hmm ...can you be a bit more specific? Do you get error messages or some such?I tend to use VLC for whacky formats, but not sure if you would like its interface much ...ever played with foobar? A lot of people seem to like it ...
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Re: A couple of windows 10 questions
The 32-bit SAPI thing is, like was mentioned above, similar in windows 7 and windows 10. What might be tripping you up there Dark is that in Windows XP, you really only had 32-bit stuff and 64-bit stuff wasn't really a thing.The 32-bit SAPI 5 voices are
Re: Trying Nvda
Hi,Not much I can add, just to ask for clarification about the ' shut the NVDA voice off" comment you made. It sounds like you want NVDA not to speak, but nvda+s, which turns speech off, is not what you want. What is the problem with that approach exactly? Nvda+s is
Re: nvda remote on a local network
You would download the code for the server, its up on some github repo somewhere. Then, you would run the server on one of your pc's within the local network and make sure that machine's firewall doesn't block it. Finally, you connect both machines (one
Re: A few bt sync secrets folks might be interested in
Holy sh...that does sound good Is there a way to selectively sync within a folder? I don't think I have 2 tb of space lying around to grab it all
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Re: A few bt sync secrets folks might be interested in
That dialogue goes away when you click the unlabeled button , maybe even by pressing escape. The interface takes some getting used to but I am syncing all but the music folders selectively now.
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Re: A few bt sync secrets folks might be interested in
Hmm,Does resilio work with btsync? I thought it had its own little thing going on, good to know. Does that placeholder sync feature work with btSync folders as well?
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Re: A few bt sync secrets folks might be interested in
The resilio sync pro client seems to offer the same feature OneDrive for Windows 8 used to have, where it downloads placeholders for files you can download as you see fit. I used to love this feature to bits. Going to set this up on my
Re: A few bt sync secrets folks might be interested in
Yup, you use your screenreader's actual right mouseclick command, I don't think applications key will work. Either that, or you left click it once and then click the options button that shows up to its right. I figured this out by
Re: A few bt sync secrets folks might be interested in
Hey Wolfie,Quick question. Can I link one device to another? Say ...I sync folders x, y and z on my pc, can I get the exact same config on my phone without having to add the folder keys again to my phone?Zersiax
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Re: Windows 10, hopefully a decision I won't regret
Hey Dark,Mind if I ask you a few questions? You wrote:"I hate hate hate hate! outlook. too much crap on the screen, not enough sensible options, "For as far as I am aware, Outlook 2016 has a number of larger agreas on the screen,
Re: Windows 10, hopefully a decision I won't regret
I honestly think people are way too apprehensive about this whole thing...Way back when Windows 10 was still future speak I joined the insider program. Barring a few temporary issues, that was pretty usable already. Keep in mind I say
Re: Windows 10, hopefully a decision I won't regret
Hmm,Well as I said I'm not sure about 2010, but 2016 works very well with the steps I described above. Replying is a matter of pressing ctrl+r, for example. If for whatever reason the calendar shows up, thats easily dismissed from the
Re: Windows 10, hopefully a decision I won't regret
oh ...uhm ..ignore that. For some reason that page was still open on an internal server error and it posted this again when I refreshed. Sorry
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Re: Windows 10, hopefully a decision I won't regret
It's sad to see ...I know some people who still use Supernova and they end up thinking a lot of applications are very inaccessible, while it is actually Supernova lagging behind that is causing the problems.Thing is, not everyone is
Re: Windows 10, hopefully a decision I won't regret
I honestly think people are way too apprehensive about this whole thing...Way back when Windows 10 was still future speak I joined the insider program. Barring a few temporary issues, that was pretty usable already. Keep in mind I say
Re: Windows 10, hopefully a decision I won't regret
@roelNope, editing system files will still be problematic with UAC turned off. This should barely ever be required and when it is, you would run some kind of editor in admin mode and do it from there. which, funnily enough, would trigger
Re: Windows 10, hopefully a decision I won't regret
I have no idea ... Since Google Chrome only recently started working at a to me high enough productive level, and that only in the Canary builds, I would be very, very surprised if Supernova plays nice with it. As in ...'Huh? The world is
Re: Hear movie sub titles with your screen reader
Hi,I'm having a bit of an odd issue with the program. It converts just fine, loads the mp3 and srt just fine, plays and reads ust fine ...until about 2 minutes in. If I look at the srt in notepad, the sentences appear to coincide with what
Re: Hear movie sub titles with your screen reader
Aprone this is excellent now I couldn't seem to seek in a file either, this has been fixed as well As a programmer I'm curious what it is you did to fix this Was the file not loading in its entirety properly?
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Re: Hear movie sub titles with your screen reader
Huh ...the program would just be sitting there waiting for a timestamp that never comes, therefore silently failing. Interesting Anyways thanks for the fix, this will be quite useful to me
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Re: Hear movie sub titles with your screen reader
Hey Aprone,Hope you don't mind me banging on the system some more, but I'm afraid I've found another srt that breaks the machine https://www.dropbox.com/s/6zha2st9zgj4a … 4.srt?dl=1This one behaves like the other broken one in the old 0.6
Re: Hear movie sub titles with your screen reader
Hey Aprone,Thanksa lot for the offer. The SRT file lives here:https://www.dropbox.com/s/26ugqvl4a289m … 1.srt?dl=1Good luck
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Re: Hear movie sub titles with your screen reader
It seems you broke the zip This reports as an invalid compressed folder on two machines I have here
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Re: Hear movie sub titles with your screen reader
Hmm ...the third machine takes it just fine. Not sure what's going on there, but let me test and report back
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Re: Hear movie sub titles with your screen reader
Cheered too early after all, it seems this zip is missing a few files Think your zipping failed halfway through.
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Re: Watching undubbed anime
Right, and as I said srt is making way for idx/sub and I'm pretty sure KmPlayer won't read those, sadly ...
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Re: Hear movie sub titles with your screen reader
That is really interesting actually, since this wasn't just a random srt plucked off the net, this came with a CrunchyRoll vid.I am going to assume, perhaps somewhat naively, that all their srt's share the same, or similar, formats, so I
Re: problem with Microsoft account login on windows 10
Oh shit ...you got hit by that one? I have literally been struggling with this one for weeks on end only to bite the bullet and refresh my pc. I simply don't know what causes this but when the Microsoft Account system gets out of
Re: Do not, ever, enable WSL
A few things, before this topic turns into another giant shitstorm nobody needs.@efinYou say there is an SSH service on Windows. You are correct, it was added in the anniversary update and has to do with the device discovery option thaht becomes available after
Re: Watching undubbed anime
Exactly, I wanted to extract the mkv to see what is causing KmPlayer to be able to read the subs You might've gotten a rare upload where the mkv contains an srt or other textual format, and if not I'd like to do more testing to see what it can and cannot read.
Re: Watching undubbed anime
@assault_freak could you somehow share me one episode so I can have a look at the file's makeup? I'd love to see how it works so I can maybe incorporate it into the workflow I use now If you'd rather not due to legality reasons that's fine , just say so
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Re: Watching undubbed anime
That's good to know Assault, I might need to force stereo conversion on my ffmpeg then I thought the use of stereo was minimal, but then I've only seen anime off the web so I might just have seen bad quality vids
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Re: Hear movie sub titles with your screen reader
Aprone,One more bug report I'm afraid I've worked around it, its not really a showstopper but you might want to know about it. When you call ffmpeg, it seems you're either not escaping certain characters properly or having trouble with
Re: Learning Japanese on Duolingo
Duolingo exists for spanish as well, especially for touristy stuff I think it should be a good start and it has audio clips, so you can hear the correct pronunciation. I don't remember if the audio clips are TTS or not.
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Re: Learning Japanese on Duolingo
And this folks, is why you don't try to do anything productive on a phone Nah, but seriously, using NVDA and Firefox or Chrome Duolingo actually works quite well. Not everybody reads but it can be used as a very useful tool. If you want more after that,
Re: Watching undubbed anime
Hi,First a question for Mslion, are you saying mplayer can read integrated subs for MKV? That surprises me since to my knowledge, mkv files tend to use sub/idx files to place the subs near the person who's speaking visually, and to my knowledge those are images
Re: Watching undubbed anime
It's a bit of a grey area, since all you're really doing is downloading videos that are available for free. When your browser plays the video, in a way it does the same thing, it just deletes the data right after. Even if you were to download premium content,
Re: Watching undubbed anime
Not calling you a liar, but are you sure that was an mkv file?The reason I ask is what you are describing is borderline impossible. As for example shown by this thread:http://forums.kmplayer.com/forums/showt … hp?t=61245The format of subtitles used in mkv files
Re: Microsoft rewards: Sweepstakes, Skype credit, and gift cards for free!
Ugh don't joke about that, people here take it seriously. I'm in the Netherlands and it works just fine, that is ... I got 190 points already from the first few activities. You do need astronomical amounts of points
Re: preserving the BMMV TV shows
I can probably help with the scripting and maybe even with the hosting, but my location really isn't ideal for the latter so let's make that a last resort.Writing a script to click each link and downloading what's attached to it should be trivial, though.
Re: the most annoying song you can link to
Lol if the Korean Baby Shark gets mentioned, I have no regrets putting this here:Gwiyomi! gwi-gwi-gwiyomi!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoYgj4zJWmw
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Re: Sad news regarding the blind mice movie vault
The email, which I received as well, is a little vague on one point.Will they delete the listings, so the links to the content only, or the content they have up as well? I know a majority of links are actually sourced from others, but if
Re: digital flash cards
Hi,@2, what is your strategy for dealing with quizlet? It seems accessible enough, just wondering if there are little tweaks/hacks you have figured out to work with it more efficiently.@5 could you possibly add unicode support to this? I tried it with a random
Re: Netflix on pc?
Does either the Kodi addon or the Win10 netflix app let screen readers echo the subtitles at you, like for example podplayer on Windows or the netflix iOS app lets you do?Thanks
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Re: Warning about the newest NVDA update
@116You say the sapi 5 version of Eloquence can read Chinese, Japanese and Korean characters?I'd be curious what version I would need to get to get that working? Is it still runnable on windows 10 and where can it be downloaded/purchased?Thanks
Re: NVDA and Japanese language
Hi,So this is still something I am working on myself. Currently, what I use is a combination of DualVoice, an English SAPI5 voice and the SAPI Unifier tool to make oneCore voices work over SAPI5.This works, in the sense that English text gets read by an
Re: Is LEASEY worth it?
Ok, I'll bite.First, the developer is absolutely an interesting character. Their mood has a tendency to swing from one end of the spectrum to the other, he can come across as rude with a thin layer of professionalism to disguise it away.Then again, you don't really
Re: Commentary screen reader
I went into this in one of the other topics but, @7 and @15 , This is very likely due to serious limitations the Chinese government places on it's citizens.Android phones in China don't come with the Play Store installed, heck, not with any Google services in
Re: Commentary screen reader
@20Paypal is one of the payment methods offered to purchase a license for the screenreader, so you can already do that.@18 If you don't trust Paypal as a payment processor you can't evaluate, I think you'll have a very hard time doing online shopping given that
Re: Commentary Screenreader now contains something like a rotor in iOS
Lol a few months later I stumble upon this topic, mostly because I couldn't find the rotor-like thing in the English manual and didn't want to bother the telegram group since I'd seen this topic flash by a while back.Of
Re: Commentary Screenreader now contains something like a rotor in iOS
Response to what was expressed in 78, not necessarily just to it's poster Oh absolutely. A lot of apps from China do send data home to their servers, and as you state yourself, so do apps from pretty much everywhere
Re: Commentary Screenreader now contains something like a rotor in iOS
@80 I have already given my response to this question.There could be a lot of reasons why they are not putting up a download page. In fact ...let me go ask
URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/572361/#p572361
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Re: Commentary Screenreader now contains something like a rotor in iOS
Response to what was expressed in 78, not necessarily just to it's poster Oh absolutely. A lot of apps from China do send data home to their servers, and as you state yourself, so do apps from pretty much everywhere
Re: does a blind person need to learn kanji while learning Japanese?
Assault pretty much said it all.I am learning Japanese myself, and kanji, although screenreaders do read them to us, are still important for the reasons given above. The different readings can be be very different (toki
Re: Language learning.
Hi,There is various ways to pick up a new language. However, unless you're a prodigy, language learning isn't a super quick process. It requires quite a bit of work, figuring out and making lots and lots of mistakes.How you go about picking up a language depends very
Re: Language learning.
If you knowof a place to get an accessible version of Genki, I'd say go for it. You'll find a lot of supplemental stuff online to help you there.Also let me know, I've been looking for it For Japanese, I would recommend Tae Kim's work, as well as the elon.io language
Re: Language learning.
Yeah, Protalker takes some getting used to. An alternative is grabbing the Japanese oneCore voices for a free option. Not amazing, but usable.And eSpeak has a japanese voice, kinda, but it really doesn't work very well and to my knowledge only reads kana.As for why
Re: Language learning.
Hi,Even Japanese OneCore voices don't say some symbols, then what?At that point you can safely ignore them, I think. I's an Elon thing, see below.On elon.io's cource, some symbols have, "component", next to them. What does this mean? I don't understand the
Re: Useful things to read before I get started with komplete kontrol
You get the instruments onto your computer by adding the serials that come with the keyboard into NativeAccess. Heads up, those come on a physical piece of paper with the keyboard. If you throw that piece of paper away
Re: Useful things to read before I get started with komplete kontrol
Honestly,The Reaper Accessibility Wiki, while somewhat outdated in some respects, has quite a few resources on getting started with Reaper. A lot of them are audio-based, but some, like the Reaproducer ones, have show
Re: Jumpy Cat - a free, accessible AI fitness app
That is literally my only gripe as well.This app is literally exactly what I've been looking for, as I tend to do he same recycled workouts over and over, and this would break that monotony. The problem is that I just have no idea how to do
Re: Accessible free online college websites for the blind
Coursera and EDX definitely come closest to what you want. CS50 comes to mind if you're just starting out.But yeah ...a degree, which in post 1 you say you want and in post 3 you say you don't want, is going to set you back a bunch
Re: Jumpy Cat - a free, accessible AI fitness app
I think the AI part mainly comes into play when generating a workout based on the choices made, and perhaps to know what cue to give next. The cues are currently performed using TTS, and I am going to assume that the amount of different
Re: RedditForBlind a windows app to use Reddit blazingly fast (v0.92)
because ...you might find a subreddit online on Google that you want to open in the app? I can see the use case really.
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Re: Becky! Internet Mail: a great mail client from Japan
I love this thing. It is really speedy after it's all set up.Make sure you keep an eye on the statusbar when nothing immediately happens. Unlike Thunderbird, this client seems to download everything first before giving you access to
Re: Has anyone used tour?
Actually getting into real illegal stuff is doable on Tor, for sure, but also rather difficult to do, so you are probably safe enough.I don't even mean you need to find it first, I'd say if one really wants to do that they can, but a lot of the onions that present
Re: Multi Linguists of the Forum...
Yeah ...most if not all Latin alphabet-based languages will have them in some form, I'd say German uses them most often but then I don't know all capitalization rules for all latin-based languages. I've seen some African languages where proper names are
Re: Zhengdu Screenreader documentation now on Github!
@11 very well, I will bite. Quite clearly you haven't taken the time to actually look at the product you're uninformedly bashing, and I don't know what justification you have decided on to spread misinformation, but let me try to give
Re: Can Japanese Pod101 be used for serious learners?
Short answer: yes.Long answer: JapanesePod101 is created by a company called Innovative Languages which are extremely, extremely annoying about marketing their own stuff. That wouldn't even be terribly bad if their stuff was awesome,
Re: Zhengdu Screenreader Open Class taking place 19TH of February, 5:00 UT
The dongle is just the physical license, as it were. You can just update online, like the other editions, but the dongle serves as your license key. It's similar to how other programs use the iLock system, as it
Re: Zhengdu Screenreader open class taking place tomorrow!
For people clamoring about a quick text-based list of things that ZDSR has over NVDA, at least ones that were mentioned in the classes so far:- Extremely responsive- Able to monitor parts of the screen even if those are outside of
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