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@RakowskiBartosz I read the first few volumes of Wandering Inn and enjoyed it. But it started to feel like...it was getting long and vast just for the sake of it? And didn't have any focus.

Agreed about Cradle! Good fun for the first while, though.

Added the others to my TBR pile, thanks!

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@RakowskiBartosz Yeah, it's not so much that I want to read on Kindle, as that I want authors to get money, but can't afford to individually pay every single author I read.

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@phillycodehound I played briefly with this and it seemed okay on the surface, though I'm not looking for work so didn't go deep: github.com/rendercv/rendercv

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦

@PepperTheVixen The reason it's grating is because unlike Eloquence and dectalk, Espeak only uses formant synthesis for the vowel sounds. For consonants and plosives, it instead uses concatenative recordings based on human speech. That's why even when you switch to a voice that sounds less sharp, the "t", "b", "p", and other sounds are still too sharp. This seems to be the primary cause of the fatigue most people experience while using ESpeak.

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@Landon205 There's already addons that do that.

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The State of Modern AI Text To Speech Systems for Screen Reader Users: The past year has seen an explosion in new text to speech engines based on neural networks, large language models, and machine learning. But has any of this advancement offered anything to those using screen readers? stuff.interfree.ca/2026/01/05/ai-tts-for-screenreaders.html #ai #tts #llm #accessibility #a11y #screenreaders

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦

I've been spending too much time on Royal Road lately. As much as I dislike Amazon, Kindle Unlimited is how the authors writing the things I want to read make a living. Well, "living" might be overstating it a bit. Never-the-less, I can't afford to subscribe to fifty Patreons, and at least someone, somewhere, gets something if I read on KU. Problem is that Royal Road is way better at pushing me books I enjoy than Amazon/Goodreads are, and literally none of the openweb book sites (bookworm, etc.) seem to have any #litrpg readers at all. So anyone wanna sell me on something on #KindleUnlimitted? Right now, I'm looking for #cozy #litrpg or #ProgressionFantasy, #HaremLit and smut are okay as long as there's also plot, #PowerFantasy only if the main character is a sweetheart, and I have a slight preference for #Isekai or #PortalFantasy, or fun offbeat main characters. I'm in the mood for something that vaguely matches the vibes of stuff like Terminate the Other World! by Icalos, Courier Quest by Flossindune, This Used To Be About Dungeons by Alexander Wales, or Beesong Chronicles by Benjamin Medrano. Please don't recommend anything by Logan Jacobs or Eric Vall; they always sound okay, but end up disappointing me. Kindle Unlimited isn't a hard requirement, I'll buy a book if it matches the above vibes and isn't on KU.