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Re: Apple unveils new accessibility features

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Post by thrownthatway »

kevin_thibedeau wrote: post #116
ebiester wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm so glad YouTube and other podcast players have moved to support 3.0 speed. As I get comfortable with one, I move it up some. For things like sports and "did you know" content, I can go 2.5 if I'm not multitasking. For technical content, sometimes I'm stuck at 1.0.

You can get browser extensions to do it for all media controls on any site. YouTube's "Premium" for 3x is laughable when it's an internal browser function.

That’s an amusing observation.

Likewise, YouTube’s “premium” feature of not displaying ads is laughable when displaying content is literally an internal browser function.

I pay anyway, because I was going to pay for an on-demand streaming music service anyway.

Re: Apple unveils new accessibility features

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Post by UltraSane »

mohsen1 wrote: post #6

Fun fact: This video was made accessible to sighted people because no blind person would ever listen to voice at that speed. Honestly if you ever observe a blind person using computers you'd impressed how they can listen to audio at unimaginable speeds.

I briefly worked at a call center and I would hear supervisors listening to recorded calls at warp speed.

Re: Apple unveils new accessibility features

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Post by Almondsetat »

postalrat wrote: post #43
Almondsetat wrote: post #24

I have difficulty trusting this. There are plenty of videos online of LLMs making up stuff like "I just ate a hot dog, is there mustard around my mouth?" "No, everything is clean" while there is a big yellow stain om the guy's face

Like coding, creating images or text, maybe the alternative of doing it yourself is too easy or enjoyable for you. Don't expect that will be true for everyone.

Did you reply to the wrong person? What are you even trying to say here?

Re: Apple unveils new accessibility features

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Post by nonethewiser »

happyPersonR wrote: post #120

A lot of us forget it, but things like text to speech, subtitles etc are there for the differently abled Without that, there wouldn’t really be great vlm and conversational models. The AI companies might have paid for the dictation of some videos on their own but voice assistants etc wouldn’t have existed and our ability to have AI that eventually understands the world would be much much harder.

So we're blaming disabled people now.

Re: Apple unveils new accessibility features

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Post by nonethewiser »

brightbeige wrote: post #71

A while ago I signed up as a sighted person on Be My Eyes. I didn't get as many calls as I had hoped, but I was glad to help out on the few that I could. One call was to read envelopes of incoming mail, another was to read pill bottles, and then there was the two funny guys on big cozy chairs with shopping bags of cereal boxes and wanted to know what was what. I remember one guy really didn't like one type. The app h…

Who called you? Blind people?

Re: Apple unveils new accessibility features

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Post by thrownthatway »

a012 wrote: post #129
satvikpendem wrote: post #123

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I listen to a lot of podcasts and YouTube videos at 3x or 4x speed now, having slowly built up the skill over a few years. It's pretty nice now and saves time, and it's remarkable how well the human brain can adapt to such input.

I’m the opposite, I can’t stand the fast speaking videos. But I also speed up 1.2x to 1.5x if the videos were too slow.

I’m struggling to understand your definition of opposite here.

Wouldn’t opposite mean you listen at sub 1x speed.

Whereas as your definition seems to be ”I’m the same, but less so.”

Re: Apple unveils new accessibility features

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Post by thrownthatway »

brador wrote: post #125
satvikpendem wrote: post #123

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I listen to a lot of podcasts and YouTube videos at 3x or 4x speed now, having slowly built up the skill over a few years. It's pretty nice now and saves time, and it's remarkable how well the human brain can adapt to such input.

You recall nothing and you know it. You're just wasting time you could use for something useful or meaningful in your life. Kids call it "Anxiety cope" but I don't agree.

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Re: Apple unveils new accessibility features

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Post by arijun »

nonethewiser wrote: post #136
brightbeige wrote: post #71

A while ago I signed up as a sighted person on Be My Eyes. I didn't get as many calls as I had hoped, but I was glad to help out on the few that I could. One call was to read envelopes of incoming mail, another was to read pill bottles, and then there was the two funny guys on big cozy chairs with shopping bags of cereal boxes and wanted to know what was what. I remember one guy really didn't like one type. The app h…

Who called you? Blind people?

That’s the app. Or vision-impaired, at least.

Re: Apple unveils new accessibility features

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Post by arijun »

jjice wrote: post #101
terabytest wrote: post #78

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Wispr Flow is a masterclass in STT. Apple's solution feels like it's from the last century in comparison. Same applies with Apple's TTS when you have ElevenLabs and OpenAI running laps around it. All I need is for my iPhone to do those things natively at the same quality level (because in Apple's walled garden that's the only way to get them usable everywhere).

But Apple's uses so few system resources and runs fully on device on newer iPhone models (16+ I believe). It's so efficient. I really enjoy using Handy with Parakeet as the model, but the system resource usage is a monster compared to Apple's (although very good). Looks like Wispr Flow uses a cloud model [0]: > Cloud based speech processing infrastructure for 1B users It gets to be a messy comparison because my iPhon…

Apple runs on-device on older models, too, just wimpier models.
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