library technician working in Vancouver BC. admin of klezmor.im. independent history researcher interested in klezmer musicians, migration, Yiddish literary world, Dutch East Indies political & journalism history, Indonesian anticolonial movement. believe in public history & wikipedia. 📜😯🌈🎻 He/him. Current projects about Klezmer music publishing, American Klezmer composers and copyright of the 1910s-20s
@MostlyBlindGamer kind of random but when I met a Blind power user of text to speech who would listen to documents read aloud at a much higher speed and explained that “Robotic” sounding voices work much better for this than natural sounding synthesized voices. till then I always thought the ideal for everyone was the most natural sounding voice possible and that robot-like voices were worse