Josh Kennedy

@rommix0@mindly.social @MutedTrampet@dragonscave.space @TheQuinbox@dragonscave.space @theblindgamer50@tweesecake.social @samtupy@dragonscave.space @Tamasg@mindly.social @AlexSpectrum93@dragonscave.space @datajake1999@dragonscave.space NVDA 2026.1 is out, but I get an error when trying to install the Ibm-tts driver for 2026.1. any ideas why? switched to sapi5 BestSpeech and sapi5 codeFactory Eloquence for now.

@rommix0@mindly.social @MutedTrampet@dragonscave.space @TheQuinbox@dragonscave.space @BTyson@dragonscave.space @samtupy@dragonscave.space @Tamasg@mindly.social @AlexSpectrum93@dragonscave.space @datajake1999@dragonscave.space since we now have bestSpeech multilingual dlls, is there any news of an NVDA addon that lets us use all bestSpeech dlls that we have so far, both old and newer multilingual ones?

@rommix0@mindly.social sounds like a classic 80s song.

@rommix0@mindly.social @Tamasg@mindly.social @MutedTrampet@dragonscave.space @TheQuinbox@dragonscave.space @BTyson@dragonscave.space @samtupy@dragonscave.space @AlexSpectrum93@dragonscave.space @datajake1999@dragonscave.space I wonder if it would have been easier to have had chatgpt modify your speak-window source code to add the other bestSpeech dlls, instead of having it make a speak-window from scratch with python? on the other hand, mine has lots more features so I guess it is unique and different.

@rommix0@mindly.social @Tamasg@mindly.social @MutedTrampet@dragonscave.space @TheQuinbox@dragonscave.space @BTyson@dragonscave.space @samtupy@dragonscave.space @AlexSpectrum93@dragonscave.space @datajake1999@dragonscave.space ok seems all fixed now. link is: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SDqEXb44df1XhSjJAmK1lcD7OZefuH_4/view?usp=sharing

@rommix0@mindly.social @Tamasg@mindly.social @MutedTrampet@dragonscave.space @TheQuinbox@dragonscave.space @BTyson@dragonscave.space @samtupy@dragonscave.space @AlexSpectrum93@dragonscave.space @datajake1999@dragonscave.space looks like for some reason the speak window loads the english dll, but won't load the other language dll files for some reason.

@rommix0@mindly.social @Tamasg@mindly.social @MutedTrampet@dragonscave.space @TheQuinbox@dragonscave.space @BTyson@dragonscave.space @samtupy@dragonscave.space @AlexSpectrum93@dragonscave.space @datajake1999@dragonscave.space ok everyone, thanks to me, we now have stand-alone execuatbles that you can run without needing a python development environment to be installed. compiled binaries now in their own folders in this zip file along with the source and everything else. you may get an error when closing the speak window, hit enter it goes away, does not seem to affect its operation though. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SDqEXb44df1XhSjJAmK1lcD7OZefuH_4/view?usp=sharing

@rommix0@mindly.social @MutedTrampet@dragonscave.space @TheQuinbox@dragonscave.space @BTyson@dragonscave.space @samtupy@dragonscave.space @Tamasg@mindly.social @AlexSpectrum93@dragonscave.space @datajake1999@dragonscave.space gain is volume so it seems. So I set the gain to 16 and it is much louder. gain of 20 is too high, makes voice clip and pop.

@rommix0@mindly.social @MutedTrampet@dragonscave.space @TheQuinbox@dragonscave.space @BTyson@dragonscave.space @samtupy@dragonscave.space @Tamasg@mindly.social @AlexSpectrum93@dragonscave.space @datajake1999@dragonscave.space only thing my speak window can't do is make the tts speak louder, change the volume. but rommix0's speak window does this, mine does not. I don't know the command for it.

@rommix0@mindly.social @MutedTrampet@dragonscave.space @TheQuinbox@dragonscave.space @BTyson@dragonscave.space @samtupy@dragonscave.space @Tamasg@mindly.social @AlexSpectrum93@dragonscave.space @datajake1999@dragonscave.space now if this could be compiled into an executable so people don't need to install python and all the stuff... https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SDqEXb44df1XhSjJAmK1lcD7OZefuH_4/view?usp=sharing

@rommix0@mindly.social @MutedTrampet@dragonscave.space @TheQuinbox@dragonscave.space @BTyson@dragonscave.space @samtupy@dragonscave.space @Tamasg@mindly.social @AlexSpectrum93@dragonscave.space @datajake1999@dragonscave.space new speak-window uploaded. works now, fully accessible, volume is low for some reason. head size does not work. includes text file with my chatgpt conversationn where all fixes are discussed. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SDqEXb44df1XhSjJAmK1lcD7OZefuH_4/view?usp=sharing

@rommix0@mindly.social @MutedTrampet@dragonscave.space @TheQuinbox@dragonscave.space @BTyson@dragonscave.space @samtupy@dragonscave.space @Tamasg@mindly.social @AlexSpectrum93@dragonscave.space @datajake1999@dragonscave.space wxpython is installed, now getting different traceback errors. for blind people, in python, wxpython works best for accessible GUI.

@rommix0@mindly.social @MutedTrampet@dragonscave.space @TheQuinbox@dragonscave.space @BTyson@dragonscave.space @samtupy@dragonscave.space @Tamasg@mindly.social @AlexSpectrum93@dragonscave.space @datajake1999@dragonscave.space wxpython is already installed, I get a traceback error.

@rommix0@mindly.social @MutedTrampet@dragonscave.space @TheQuinbox@dragonscave.space @BTyson@dragonscave.space @samtupy@dragonscave.space @Tamasg@mindly.social @AlexSpectrum93@dragonscave.space @datajake1999@dragonscave.space I wonder if the accessibility is a limitation of the python 3.7.0 GUI? if this is the case, could you convert my speak window to c++, the language that your original speak window was written in?

@rommix0@mindly.social @MutedTrampet@dragonscave.space @TheQuinbox@dragonscave.space @BTyson@dragonscave.space @samtupy@dragonscave.space @Tamasg@mindly.social @AlexSpectrum93@dragonscave.space @datajake1999@dragonscave.space Did you use the speak window with a screen reader loaded, navigating with the keyboard-only?

@rommix0@mindly.social @MutedTrampet@dragonscave.space @TheQuinbox@dragonscave.space @BTyson@dragonscave.space @samtupy@dragonscave.space @Tamasg@mindly.social @AlexSpectrum93@dragonscave.space @datajake1999@dragonscave.space I asked chatgpt to make controls accessible, ... tested, still no go... https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SDqEXb44df1XhSjJAmK1lcD7OZefuH_4/view?usp=sharing

@rommix0@mindly.social @MutedTrampet@dragonscave.space @TheQuinbox@dragonscave.space @BTyson@dragonscave.space @samtupy@dragonscave.space @Tamasg@mindly.social @AlexSpectrum93@dragonscave.space @datajake1999@dragonscave.space yes python 3.7.0 ...