#software problem

[tofuingho]

I have a weird problem that I'm looking for a solution to.

I'm using ReadEra Premium to listen to an ebook. I like to listen to audiobooks at a faster speed. The problem is that, at anything but regular speed, the TTS skips some short words/sentences.

Examples:

"But..."

"Argh."

"Hm?"

"Sam!"

Some of it's just sound effects, but sometimes if a character has a short name or if the character's dialogue has hesitations or interruptions, then it gets skipped and I miss something important to the story.

Is there any way to fix it? Or do I need to buy a different program?

[myargalargan]

supercut of Colin saying "of course" and finding new ways to make it look physically painful each time

[mitcheechee]

pictures from this animatic (..?) i was (attempting) to make LOL. it was really bad but i learned some stuff!! and cut a lot out of it... maybe ill revisit it and remake it someday : )

[deedala]

Ian x Debbie + just hashtag gay ginger middle children things

[genericpuff]

performing surgery on my baby today y'all, hoping to at least narrow down my GPU issues with streaming lately

wish me luck 😔

[xenomorphicdna]

I think, smacking Dreams' puppet over the head with a pole might not be a bad idea,,, problem is, actually getting close enough to hit him without being blasted with a death beam,,,,

Flames tho? He's my creechur, massive eyes and big ears, he's so confused

[cryotheatre]

envy adams discord layout for @glam-g1rls :3

[kef-meister]

Boy howdy, I'm so glad companies around the world have secure, decentralized servers they actually own and aren't dependent on the cloud at all. Could you imagine what would happen if an entire airport lost its ability to communic-

A CrowdStrike update is breaking computers running Windows, causing them to crash and display the Blue Screen of Death. Companies around the world have been unable to reboot, according to reports. (...) CrowdStrike engineers say they are working on the issue, which affects its Falcon Sensor product (...) “the CrowdStrike platform purpose-built to stop breaches via a unified set of cloud-delivered technologies that prevent all types of attacks—including malware and much more.” The IT outage has affected airports, businesses and broadcasters, according to the Sky News website.

Oh, okay then.

[spitblaze]

If u see 'software company is profiting off of a massive war and one of the worst tragedies in human history by selling generative images of the conflict' and your first reaction is to go 'ew gross, well clearly you should either pirate this company's software or use any number of these alternatives and by the way here's somewhere you can download a bunch of video games' then I am forced to wonder how low you had to duck for the point to fly that far over your head

[shesmore-shoebill]

amanda investing in crypto. already shocking. amanda actually making some money off of crypto. DEEPLY shocking. wild.

[frankenfossil]

you're never going to be the most popular magical girl when your colour is orange

cassidy from sleepless domain

[thebluestbluewords]

Dis-like-Dysentery

I have a lot of very specific headcanons about Auradon Prep, and one of them is the fact that Jay is both a Smart Guy, and also chronically incapable of turning in assignments on time. For. Reasons.

this might be about one of those reasons.

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Carlos looks up from his plate as Jay wanders over. “Dude, where were you? We started eating without you.” 

“Talking to a teacher. I submitted an assignment wrong, or something.” 

Carlos nods. He’s got a fork dangling from one hand, and there’s a leaf stuck in his hair. Sunlit from behind, Jay’s pretty sure that he’s the prettiest boy on this side of the barrier. “Oh, man. Was it Demorra? She’s super strict about the rules, especially for the online stuff. I could’ve helped you figure it out bro, you don’t have to get through her bureaucratic shit on your own.” 

Jay sets his tray down on the opposite side of the table. “Nah. It was Williams.” 

Carlos frowns. “The international lit teacher? Really?” 

They’ve been reading through Jay’s lit assignments together. Auradon expects them to type up all of their homework, so he’s been getting by with the hacked dictation program on his laptop and locking himself in the bathroom to read his essays out loud into the program with the minimum of background noise. 

There’s a peer writing tutor who does proofreading two nights a week for free, but Jay’s not gonna take his shitty essays in to her when he’s pretty sure he’ll just get laughed right back out of the student study room for the giant default font Carlos set on his computer. 

It doesn’t exactly make reading his own assignments easier, but it doesn’t make it worse either, so they’re calling it functional for now. Auradon Prep is all about “helping students embrace their unique academic talents”, so Carlos and Evie are both being pulled for more advanced classes, which is great for them, and terrible for Jay’s essays because it’s seriously starting to cut into their free time. 

That, and the trouble they’ve been getting up to after hours. 

The assistant gym teacher still hasn’t figured out who to blame for French braiding all the climbing ropes together. 

“She couldn’t read my handwriting.” 

“Fuck.” 

That’s about the shape of it. Handwritten assignments are few and far between, but Jay can’t bullshit his way through all of them. “Haha, yeah.” 

Carlos thunks his head down onto the table. “Ugh. Fuck. I can make you a handwriting font on the computer, but that’ll make in-class assignments worse if you can’t keep it up.” 

“Yup.” 

He sits up. There’s a dent on his forehead from pressing it into the table. “Eat.” 

“Not hungry,” Jay says as cheerfully as he can manage. It’s not gonna fool Carlos, but he’s not gonna show weakness in front of the royal rabble. “Anyway, we’re not going to the honor board. She’s willing to settle it with some sorta evaluation. Have you heard of dyslexia before?” 

Carlos blinks. “Dyslexia? No. I mean. It’s gotta be dis from like, disinterested, disintegrating, some sort of anti? Or else it’s dys from like, dysentery. Some sort of illness, maybe. Lex has gotta be from lexicon, lexicography. Something to do with either anti-words or a words illness? Does she think you’re sick of words?” 

Jay shrugs. “She said it’s why I’m bad at reading. Wants me to do an assessment so she can know what’s going on.” 

Carlos already has his phone out. He’s typing with one hand, the other one curled around his plate in a defensive hunch that’s almost casual. “Huh. How’s that going for her so far?” 

Jay snorts. “Fab. Nah, she didn’t do it yet. It’s a whole special test that she’s gotta send me down to the psych for.” 

“Can you reject it?” 

“If I wanna meet with the honor board and explain why I apparently have great handwriting, but only when they can’t see me do the assignments.” 

“Fuck.” 

“Yeah. At least she was cool about it.” 

Carlos groans. “Your handwriting sucks, dude. You’re not sick of writing, you’re just— your handwriting sucks.” 

“Yeah, and my fucking reading comprehension. I—“ Jay cuts himself off abruptly as the shadow of more people falls across their lunch table. “Hey, guys.” 

Mal sets her lunch tray down on Jay’s left side, leaving Ben the spot on his right. Evie’s not eating with them today. They have other friends in theory, but between Doug’s science club buddies and Carlos’s general disinterest in socializing with other humans, they didn’t bother picking a table large enough for anyone else.  

“Sorry,” Ben apologizes, even as he’s nudging his shoulder against Jay’s. It’s nice not being the only tall one sometimes. “I couldn’t help overhearing.” 

Jay leans back into the contact. “We were talking out loud, dude. It happens. You got any hot tips for the stupid assessment I’ve gotta do later?” 

“Have you tried being better?” Mal suggests. “I find that cheating works great. I could find you a spell to let one of us borrow your hands for a few hours, and so long as you can tell us what you want to write, we can control the muscles and get better handwriting than your usual chicken scratch special.” 

“Hey.”

“Would that work if you can’t see the paper?” Ben asks curiously. 

Mal frowns. “No. Not unless I modify the spell to possess your eyes too.” 

Jay represses a shudder. “Thanks, but no thanks, M. I like my eyes in one piece.” 

Carlos is scrolling rapidly on his phone, hanging half-over the table in an attempt to get closer to the three of them. “Dude, dyslexia is a brain thing that affects how you process visual input of words— aw, shit.” 

Bad. That’s the bad-news tone. Jay’s heart drops traitorously into his stomach, which suddenly isn’t feeling the tater tots on his lunch tray. “What?” 

Carlos shakes his head. “Nothing too bad. Just, I think Williams is right. You’ve said you’re shit at reading fast cause the words all look the same, right? Like, you can’t scan to identify them, you’ve gotta sound each one out.” 

Jay smashes a tater tot with the side of his fork. The destruction doesn’t make his gut feel any better. It’s not that he’s mad, it’s just— he doesn’t want to do this. Analyzing his brain sucks. He did the whole week of required therapy that the student disciplinary council required after the stuff with Mal’s mom, and he’s so fucking done with Auradon grown-ups pretending to understand why his head’s fucked up. “Yeah, so?” 

Carlos waves the phone at him. “So that’s what this is. You’ve got a brain disorder.” 

“We can fix it, right?” 

He wiggles a hand back and forth. “Ehh. Kinda. There’s techniques to make it easier, but it’s sorta like— your brain is wired for AC power input, and words are DC. It’s a misalignment. We can make an adaptor, but we can’t rip out your brain wiring.” 

“I could,” Mal offers. “I love doing illegal magic.”

[ganondoodle]

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[edaworks]

Well, my meds are on backorder and I think the barometric pressure swing is screwing with me too, so please welcome “need to keep hands occupied during business calls” mspaint.exe RJ

ugh I just want to feel like I’m not under 10 feet of water and my head to not be stuffed with cotton balls

[nerdby]

If you support AI ANYTHING after reading about this then you are trash.

[quimser]

trying to make those lmk stickers

as a word of advice, when you buy a pack of, say, 25 pieces of sticker paper, you do not truly have 25 pages of stickers. you only have as many that survive printing and cutting errors