maple "mavica" syrup [6502] @mavica_again@computerfairi.es

@lion wow happy birthday 🍰

@jk i think that just used the same engine as dectalk, didn't it?

i want to build a new text to speech voice for myself (something i will carry around to use to speak), i do not want it to sound human, if you know any cool off-the-beaten-path stuff like this please let me know

i wish there was something like the dectalk voice but feminine without it being just the dectalk voice in falsetto

my lamest claim to fame is having composed the soundtrack to a game released on steam built with the "grandma platforming engine" which means that the mobygames database believes that i have once contributed with Maddy Thorson of Celeste fame on a video game

@lexbailey anecdotally, we have composed music since 2007 and have soundtrack credits even on a few games released on steam and we still don't know music theory, so, 🤷‍♀️

environmental storytelling

@nicklockwood it's hard to find fediverse software that doesn't turn every image into webp now, with the exception of some forks, for example

denying webp inbox breaks most of the fediverse's incoming posts etc

@nicklockwood i do think it's a useful format and it shouldn't be trying to replace png and i viscerally hate every website that has turned my lossless pngs into lossy webps

the issue is less with the format and more with how "web" "developers" started using it, i guess

@hexsicat sounds like a computer fairies but worse tbqh

@hexsicat never heard of it

@nicklockwood lossy compression over png's lossless, png doesn't need to be replaced, i hate google

friends don't let friends use webp

fediverse instance where if it receives a WEBP (Web Piss) image it converts it to the lowest possible quality jpeg as punishment

@hexsicat whats bluesky