I ran about 12km as part of a marathon relay Archilles Internal 2 at the HASPO Hamburg Marathon. Archilles International is a club for disabled runners. They provide guides and help disabled runners like me to take part in running events. Please consider donating.
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NVDA-Plugin to speak Text in detected language
I’m using screenreaders for well over a year now. I constantly switch between English and German in emails, text, chats, etc. Many many times a day the screenreader would read German or English in the wrong voice, because it is not properly tagged. I October I bought a Macbook Air M1. VoiceOver on the M1 processor detectsds the language with artificial intelligence. Its very accurate and I wanted the same for my work and my gaming PC.
So I developed a NVDA plugin called: NVDAOneCoreAutoLang
It adds a new speech synthesizer, which is a modified version of the “Windows OneCore voices” synthesizer. After installation of my plugin a new synthesizer called “Windows OneCore voices (AutoLang)” is available. Before any text is spoken the plugin uses the fasttext language indentification model to guess the language. If a voice for this language is installed in Windows, the plugin uses that voice to speak the text. It defaults to the selected voice.
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Hallo World!
It’s the year 2021. This time I’m really making a homepage 🙂 I’m a legally blind engineer. Most content will be around my blindness. I might write about my two sports running and alpine skiing too. 🙂 Cheers!