Bryce Belcher

Just downloaded the DoubleTalk app that @ivan_soto@dragonscave.space created. The ROM has been imported, and I've got DoubleTalk rocking on iOS now. However, I don't see it on the list of speech synthesizers in voiceover and yes, I did restart my phone. Though I would probably just use DoubleTalk on the app since I can write whatever I want on there since it has that annoying clicking thing, but it's the very first version so there's going to be quirks. I should see how it works on iPadOS 26 if it has that clicking thing with voiceover or not. Now we need bestspeak, and dectalk.

Just let off some adult bang snaps, my parents went down to Tennessee for a week and then they came back home this weekend and brought me some big ones from TNT fireworks in Gatlinburg because Ohio doesn't sell shit. They only sell the pussy snaps. Note to self, do not try opening the plastic packaging if you just cut your fingernails, it's hard as hell to open it. Usually I generally can do it, but when my fingers are short, it's difficult than it normally is. But when it's long, I can open them just fine.

Good morning! Here's today's Gemini Notebook deep dive. NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook. Today's deep dive goes over the life and history of Alice Deejay, a Dutch group formed in 1998 and known for their hit song better off alone, but also released in my life, will I ever, everything begins with an E, etc. In 2000 they released their first album who needs guitars anyway. They're back together, and they're doing a 2026 reunion tour, playing in places in Europe and the United States, and they'll also be playing in New York at Times Square.

I should also mention I have the boom touch speaker.

This is how good intelligent image descriptions are within iOS 27 beta. I was on Apple Music and I was having it describe an album artwork, this one was the Enrique album released in 1999 by Enrique Iglesias. A person with short dark hair and light facial stubble wearing a gray t-shirt, looking off to the left against a dark background. The person has a small mole on their right cheek and thick, dark eyebrows. The text "ENRIQUE" is printed in large, thin, dark gray capital letters across the chest, with "ENRIQUE IGLESIAS" printed in smaller, white capital letters centered inside the larger text.

What up people? Just playing some Package Hero, been playing it since Tuesday night. As of now I am at 188.5 billion coins and counting, delivering at 14.5 billion packages per second. I assume this game is new since everyone has been talking about it lately, and it's another accessible game that I can play on iOS.

@danestange@caneandable.social You're right, it's the same artist who made blue. The artist is Eiffel 65. They've made some cool songs that you may or may not likey depending on what you prefer or don't prefer. I did a deep dive on the story behind them last year, which is up on mastodon. They basically use autotune, but they also use something else that makes it sound really cool with their harmonies.

@danestange@caneandable.social @ivan_soto@dragonscave.space I have another idea, what if I pour DoubleTalk to sapi 4 or sapi 5? Tho sapi 4 would probably be better for it since it's an ancient synthesizer.

@danestange@caneandable.social Hopefully he stays off this time. He should just hit the bucket already!

@alexchapman@vee.seedy.cc @rowdyamerican@dragonscave.space I know, especially the enhanced voices of neospeech voices, gives it a new perspective.

There's a strange bug with an iOS 27 beta where with the eloquence speech synthesizer, if you use Siri or you're on a phone call and you're done, it chips a lot. And it only happens with eloquence, nothing else. Anyone that use eloquence notice this?

Just another example of how much censorship there is with using sora with ElevenLabs. I did this prompt, an older fat man riding Sirens curse at Cedar Point, he flies off the roller coaster and crashes into Lake Erie. He screams oh shit! As he Loses his grip and falls off the coaster. I'm pretty sure I could make this with the original sora if it was still around. Maybe if I take the oh shit off there it will work.

@danestange@caneandable.social don't worry, the voices are still there. that thing I did earlier was just the debate, not deep dive. The debate has always been there, but I haven't really fucked with it until about now.

Good morning everyone! Here's today's NotebookLM deep dive. NotebookLM is now called Gemini notebook. Google announced on Thursday that they've done this which isn't surprising now considering they're sinking everything with Gemini now. Especially now that you can see your notebooks in Gemini. I used two sources for this, the Google blog and an article about this on Cnet. Personally I think they might be killing it off, but we'll see what else they do since the rebranding.

@mckensie@tweesecake.social Well, probably the ones used from the Dectalk archive, although there does seem to be a new open source version that sounds a lot better. There was an NVDA add-on that used to work until not long ago. But I also have scansoft Tom, AT&T, Mike, Donna and Charles, the SAPI4 and five Microsoft voices and bestspeak.

FCC Adopts Plan for C-Band Auction in July 2027 https://www.radioworld.com/news-and-business/headlines/fcc-adopts-plan-for-c-band-auction-in-july-2027

@danestange@caneandable.social I prefer to use iLoader, it's good and simple to use.

@danestange@caneandable.social Why would you be friends with that whiny bitch? He's whiny, narcissistic, and wants everyone to be just like him. He doesn't want anybody to be unique, only what he wants. But as we all know, one day, he will hit the bucket.

@danestange@caneandable.social Yeah, you know what, fuck him. I thought he was cool too but now he's a piece of shit for brains. The only thing he's good for is making him rage, when he was once on your server before he did what he did.

@chriswestbrook@caneandable.social Codex exes a good little thing. Do you pay the subscription? Seems a lot better that way.

There's lots of sporadic E skip on the CB bands tonight, just about every channel occupied. People are talking from all over, including channel 38 lower side band. I think there's a sign that there is some skip forming on the FM broadcast band on 88 MHz, hopefully that's true.

In about 10 minutes, the Ohio State buckeyes are about to face off against # 5 Texas. As of now we are still ranked the no.1 team at this moment. We'll see who becomes victorious. We defeated them twice in 2025, back in January and then again in September. It's gonna be a tough one, but surely the buckeyes will pull it off.

My name is Johnny Gray

I'm gonna try this out tomorrow. https://github.com/Quinton1110/Sapple

@chriswestbrook@caneandable.social Nice, been using it, but haven't paid for ChatGPT yet, but despite the limits on a free account, it can do pretty cool shit. I built a windows app called file converter ultimate, and it's pretty damn good for what it is. It has all your file utilities, from converting M4a files to MP3 and so forth, wavd to MP3, voc to MP3, and I cleaned it enough to where you can convert KWB files to text without all that messy reading. It can convert word to PDF, audio to MP4 suitable for sharing to YouTube, the stuff that does is very useful. It utilizes image magic, and FFMpeg. Did I also mention it can take M4 V to MP4? In addition, you can zip a folder and it can bulk download them all. I also made my little web crawler.

Looks like Google changed the name from Notebook LM to Gemini notebook. Wonder what else they'll do with it next?

@serrebi@serrebiradio.com @josh@tweesecake.social https://testflight.apple.com/join/77yx6g97

Decided to fire up the FM transmitter tonight! I'm on 88.5 FM. gonna see how long I can broadcast dealing with that exhaust fan lol. Gonna try something, Party 85, Columbus's all new party station. Playing EDM, dance music, and hip-hop and rap.

Good morning! Here's today's Gemini Notebook deep dive. This deep dive talks about the game bejeweled and how it came to be. But it wasn't just that in the beginning, it was originally just a poker game and then in the early 2000s it was named bejeweled. I didn't know it was a game in the early 2000s only for computers, and then eventually we got it on our phones, and I also have bejeweled three on the DS.

@mckensie@tweesecake.social That's funny because someone on Ramblio made something about an add-on for NVDA that you can use Google TTS.

@lynessence@caneandable.social Yeah, it's finicky with iOS 27. Might try the equalizer thingy to see if there's any difference.

@mckensie@tweesecake.social Do it, then we can share TTS stuff and random skits.

@danestange@caneandable.social @AlexSpectrum93@dragonscave.space Why do you keep bringing him back when you know he's going to do the same shit? And again he showed his true self. I guess you can't accept it.

A not so fun fact, in a month from now the sora API will shut down on September 24. At least I've been generating some stuff with it through ElevenLabs, except the only thing is if you're out of your quota limit, you can't do anything else, or use any other ElevenLabs features because it uses a lot of credits. Mine is like 100,000 because I have the creator plan. But stay tuned for next month, because the third and final Sora videos compilation of the videos I've made will be coming, it'll be the last one for sora. Though I feel like I haven't made as much as I wanted over the past two months because of the whole quota thing, plus just that not many ideas, and how more censored it is from the original app although that one was crazy.

Just enjoying a nice morning outside, listening to the radio. I brought my Tecsun radio to the back deck. Some little tropo happening this morning. Also currently listening to 40 m shortwave at the moment. And, not too noisy like it is in the house. At least the noise is minimal.

@danestange@caneandable.social Maybe it's either i've outgrown this place? I don't know, but yeah it's fall so whatever but fuck winter up the ass. So yeah, so let's make bombs. Blow this motherfucker to shreds. Starting with this shit neighborhood. Then? Blow up the state house where DeWine is working. Because he's a fag in a bag. But he's an old fart anyway, so hopefully when he leaves office next year, he'll be dead. Unless? He doesn't get bullets.

@danestange@caneandable.social No, fuck this time. It's shitty, and boring. And I, prefer not to be here. I, prefer to leave, I really really really don't wanna live heaah. But I'm stuck here, so I might as well blow this place up. Like the guy who blew up Nashville in 2020, or the Beirut thing. Or? Maybe dry ice and soda mixed together sealed. Because doing that causes explosions. I like to throw bang snaps all over the driveway and the road, and keep pieces of the foil on the ground and not pick it up because fuck this place. I love it when people run it over!

@danestange@caneandable.social Well, we could still have them, I guess it's up to us to work on it because Alex is a whiny bitch. Except I'm running a PC and wouldn't be able to compile it to something like swift.

@rowdyamerican@dragonscave.space Yeah, the DoubleTalk app has flaws, but if I use it, I would rather type something and have it read something instead of using it with voiceover for the moment until things get fixed. But it's really cool to have DoubleTalk on iOS now.

Good day everyone. Looks like we've got some E skip this late afternoon on the FM dial! Just popped out of nowhere. Time to have fun!

@danestange@caneandable.social That's how I always think about when I meet awesome people on flights like that.

@danestange@caneandable.social And I'm sure Diego would probably like to contribute to the project.

@danestange@caneandable.social @ivan_soto@dragonscave.space Yeah, I know, you were spamming Ivan until you pissed him off. The important thing is getting these quirks with VoiceOver fixed. But in the app if you use DoubleTalk, it doesn't do that clicking.

@danestange@caneandable.social Yes, and it could happen when you feed the whole thing to Codex.

@danestange@caneandable.social @Jmd2000@fwoof.space I would've felt the same way too. 11 years later and I think it would be dope as shit running it on the iPhone.

It's been two weeks today since I created the nostalgia corner community bubble on Ramblio. It is basically the best thing we have to a time machine. If you have a pretty good audio library of stuff you have, it's the place to be. It currently has nine members (or 10 if you count me as the owner ). There's lots of stuff on there already, so if you want to check it out before joining you can if you're interested. Lots of stuff is up there, including a short recording of me playing Mortal Kombat 11 on the switch from 2019 when I was on story mode. I also had another contributor who uploaded a recording of him ordering a meal from KFC in 2006, and from the way it sounded it was from a digital recorder or something. There's also a recording from my Apex BrailleNote that I used when I was in school from March 2, 2020. So come on in and have fun! Drop your most interesting or embarrassing audio. Please boost for those that are interested. https://rmbl.io/b/yvN3PFhHTVoJdIR3Fh5Xg?t=4IFzveHdwIUscFlSLOhy-OgjWLJsZwmd-cCHt8w_lWu4tSSZqp6x4fM8yOpL0DkmvfS7y-mR5W9Y6g

@rowdyamerican@dragonscave.space @mcourcel@allovertheplace.ca I actually have the ROM, and I also have the NVDA add-on.

Does anyone know what happened to the webSDR server in Twente, Netherlands? I did use that SDR sometimes, in fact, it was the first ever WebSDR I used, and the SDR owner was the inventor of the webSDR software. His server was wideband, you could tune from AM, all the way up to 30 MHz. But whenever you type http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl it does nothing, which makes me believe he either shut the server down or it's in a new address. It doesn't even show up on the list of servers on Websdr.org, and usually it's the first one up there. There are other servers from that specific country though.

@stux@mstdn.social I think you simply forgot why we voted for him in the first place. Don't forget, he said there wouldn't be any wars, but look where we are now.