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D’oh!: Musky Clown Show Temporarily Disrupts Firings at TTS
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/doh-musky-clown-show-temporarily-disrupts-firings-at-tts

"And they couldn’t easily ask their supervisors what was up since their supervisors hadn’t been looped in on the fact that members of their teams had been fired...

... #ThomasShedd, the #Musk associate appointed as the new head of #TTS, sent a message this afternoon to the whole team that it turns out … well, they’re not quite fired yet. “We don’t yet have the go-ahead from HR”

#ElonMusk #Coup #News #US #USA
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More clown show breaking this afternoon out of TTS, the in-show tech consultancy housed within GSA. I told you last night that the new leadership had started firing people yesterday starting with a few dozen probationers — people in their first year on the job who are easier to fire under Civil Service law. But apparently the new bosses are still learning how to do things, most specifically, how to fire people. Yesterday the fired staffers found out about their terminations when they were summoned to hastily arranged meetings in which they were verbally told they were fired. But then people started to notice that the formal letters of termination they were told to expect weren’t showing up in their inboxes. And they couldn’t easily ask their supervisors what was up since their supervisors hadn’t been looped in on the fact that members of their teams had been fired in the first place.

So what happened?

It seems that the new bosses got down to firing people before they learned how you fire people. Finally Thomas Shedd, the Musk associate who was appointed as the new head of TTS, sent a message this afternoon to the whole team that it turns out … well, they’re not quite fired yet. “We don’t yet have the go-ahead from HR,” a presumably somewhat sad-sack Shedd Slacked colleagues a bit after 2 this afternoon.


ich hab die einzige 'High' Male Stimme ausgewählt.
Erster Eindruck, von der Stimme her kann es mit MBROLA und HADIFIX mithalten,
Bei den AKüFis ist noch massig Luft nach oben.
Eigene Listen wie bei MBROLA wären toll!

Aber sonst, macht Hoffnung!

Wenn man es erst mal ordentlich ver'pipen kann, am Besten mit einer Liste der in Frage kommenden apk's, das wäre toll.

#Android #tts #TextToSpeech #android #fdroid #MBROLA #HADIFIX


Mir werden für deutsche Sprache neun verschiedene Modelle angezeigt. An den Namen kann man zumindest zwischen männlicher und weiblicher Stimme unterscheiden. Was bedeutet "low", " medium" und "high"?
Auf der Webseite von Hugging Face habe ich auf die Schnelle nichts gefunden.

Ich brauche die für Kuketz berühmte Hilfestellung via Blog-Beitrag zum Weiterkommen...

#TTS #TextToSpeech

PS für alle: Der fehlende Button zum Löschen installierter Modelle steht bereits im Issue-Tracker.


@kuketzblog Wäre das #sherpatts nicht etwas für sie #empfehlungsecke ? Endlich ein gutes #tts auch in deutscher Sprache (und vielen anderen) für googlefreie Androiden?


Privacy? Data Protection? Respect for Civil Liberties? "404 Not Found" when it comes to scumbags who love scifi dystopias...

"Thomas Shedd, a Musk-associate and now head of the General Services Administration’s Technology Transformation Services (TTS), told government tech workers in a meeting this week that the administration plans to widely deploy AI throughout the government. Shedd also said the administration would need help altering login.gov, a government login system, to further integrate with sensitive systems like social security “to further identify individuals and detect and prevent fraud,” which employees identified on the meeting as “an illegal task.”

Shedd, who is a former Tesla engineer, said the government should “try to get consent,” regarding login.gov changes but that “we should still push forward and see what we can do.”

WIRED and the New York Times previously reported on aspects of the meeting. 404 Media has now obtained audio of the full meeting and quotes it extensively below. Shedd told TTS workers that the administration would need help making radical changes to various government systems: “Things are going to get intense,” he said."

https://www.404media.co/things-are-going-to-get-intense-how-a-musk-ally-plans-to-push-ai-on-the-government/

#USA #Musk #Surveillance #DOGE #AI #Privacy #DataProtection #TTS


Blind People Problems:

Lately I'm encountering instances where people writing substitute a small letter L for a capital i. For example writing Al (AL) instead of AI (ai).

This fools the eye, but not the text-to-speech engines used by blind and low vision users to listen to the text.

This morning I copy and pasted the title of a novel from the story graph and it turned out that the word Idea was written with an L (ldea) instead of a capital i.

I wonder what is behind this phenomenon. Is it a virtual keyboard speed writing thing? Saving the user the extra click on the shift key?

What is for sure, this practice is bad for accessibility.

Edit:

Since not everyone sees all the replies I'll summaries:

The main possible explanation for the use of an l in place of a capital I, was the use of OCR to digitize text in an image.

Considering the fact that OCR is built into mobile OSs and apps these days it is quite possible that is was used and as a type of AI it is clear why it would not understand the context and mistake identical letters for one another.

A second possible reason suggested in the comments was that people are trying to obscure the use of the term AI from filters or crawlers by using the wrong letter.

#BlindPeopleProblems #accessibility #blind #LowVison #TTS #TextToSpeech