MOSS-TTS Family is an open-source speech and sound generation model family designed for high-fidelity, expressive, and complex real-world scenarios. It comprises five models: MOSS-TTS for high-fidelity speech generation, MOSS-TTSD for expressive multi-speaker dialogues, MOSS-VoiceGenerator for voice design, MOSS-TTS-Realtime for real-time voice agents, and MOSS-SoundEffect for sound effect generation. The family supports 20 languages and offers various capabilities for different applications.

MOSS-TTS-v1.0 outperforms other open-source and closed-source models in Speaker Switch Accuracy, Speaker Similarity, and Word Error Rate. It achieves state-of-the-art results on the Seed-TTS-eval benchmark, surpassing all open-source models and rivalling leading closed-source systems.

MOSS-Audio-Tokenizer, based on the Cat architecture, is a unified discrete audio interface for the MOSS-TTS Family. It achieves state-of-the-art reconstruction quality among open-source audio tokenizers, with extreme compression and high fidelity.

I’m going to tell you about how I took a job building software to kill people. But don’t get distracted by that; I didn’t know at the time.

Yet another critique on PIM and the art of collecting links. I'll keep a link to it here and make an archive.

Thanya Nathan C, a blind 2024 graduate of Kannur University, ranked first in the merit list of persons with benchmark disabilities in the Civil Judges (Junior Division), Kerala Judicial Service, 2025. She credits her success to her experience as an advocate, which provided practical application of law and courtroom procedure knowledge. Thanya emphasizes the need for improved accessibility in legal education and the judiciary, including more Braille study materials and inclusive infrastructure.

The text discusses the limitations of AI in replacing accessibility testers. While AI can automate some tasks, it struggles with tasks requiring contextual understanding, such as interpreting false positives in automated testing, verifying screen reader output, and assessing the adequacy of error messages and alt text. The author categorizes accessibility tasks based on AI’s potential impact, highlighting that many tasks still require human expertise.

AI can assist accessibility professionals by automating tedious tasks, catching obvious violations, and generating first drafts of documentation. However, it cannot understand context, make judgement calls, or advocate for users, making human expertise essential for ensuring truly accessible designs and experiences. While AI can be a valuable tool, it should be viewed as a supplement to human expertise, not a replacement.

“Wishcessibility” is the well-intentioned but misguided attempts to improve accessibility, often resulting in harm. This can include following accessibility guidelines without testing, relying on inaccurate information, or implementing accessibility overlays. To combat wishcessibility, we need to move beyond compliance and focus on the actual human experiences of disabled users, requiring systemic support and buy-in for accessibility work.

Fallout 4 Access is an F4SE plugin that adds screen reader support for blind and visually impaired players. It speaks menu text, dialogue, and gameplay information through NVDA, JAWS, or Windows SAPI.

Foobar2000 component for jumping to a specific time in a track. Requires Visual Studio 2022 , C ATL, and CMake 3.24 .

There was a long write-up in this note, but then I removed it. Read the bookmarked article with an open heart.

VSSFlow is a unified flow-matching framework for video-conditioned sound and speech generation, integrating video-to-sound (V2S) and visual text-to-speech (VisualTTS) tasks. It uses a novel condition aggregation mechanism and leverages the inductive biases of cross-attention and self-attention layers to handle different input signals. VSSFlow outperforms state-of-the-art baselines on both V2S and VisualTTS benchmarks.

Clicker Heroes accessibility mod. Contribute to ShotgunSpoon/ch_access development by creating an account on GitHub.

Pure Blog is a new, simple PHP-based blogging platform with a clean CMS. It uses Markdown for content storage and offers features like draft previews, tags, pagination, RSS, and built-in search. The project is open-source and available on GitHub.

TechShare Pro 2025 highlighted key trends in inclusive technology, emphasizing the rapid advancement of accessibility. The conference explored the impact of AI on assistive technology, the growing importance of voice interfaces, and the need to consider neurodiversity in design. It also stressed the significance of embedding accessibility from the start of projects, navigating evolving regulations, and recognizing accessibility as a driver of brand value and commercial success.

The Web Accessibility extension for Gemini CLI automates web accessibility testing and remediation. It uses the axe-core engine to audit web applications and generate a checklist of accessibility violations. The extension can then automatically fix these violations within the command line, streamlining the creation of inclusive software.

Life Pop is a life simulator game where players make choices that impact their character’s life from birth to death, or beyond as a vampire. The game offers various modes like spy agency, zoo tycoon, professional racing, vampire lives, cult system, outdoor adventures, advanced pet system, and a detailed medical system. It also includes skill trees, relationship memory, a photo album, multiplayer, leaderboards, and interactive mini-games.

Fred, a tech support worker, jokingly told a user named Emily to drape a paperclip chain over her monitor to prevent fuzziness. The prank spread throughout the office, with many users following Fred’s advice, including lawyers. Despite fearing repercussions, Fred was never reprimanded for his prank.

FYLs-G2P is a hybrid G2P engine that bridges the gap between massive end-to-end models and simple dictionary lookups. It uses a contextual POS tagger, neural OOV inference, and weighted graph mapping to accurately pronounce words, including unseen words and homographs. The engine is designed for edge devices and real-time TTS, with a focus on robustness and morphological intelligence.

Anthropic researcher Nicholas Carlini used 16 instances of the company’s Claude Opus 4.6 AI model to build a C compiler from scratch. The AI agents, working independently with minimal supervision, produced a 100,000-line Rust-based compiler capable of building a bootable Linux kernel. While the project demonstrates the potential of AI coding agents, it also highlights their limitations and the significant human effort required to support their work.

A new setting in Microsoft Word for Windows allows screen reader users to navigate documents using the up and down arrow keys based on logical reading order. This feature, which is disabled by default, can be enabled in the Accessibility options. It improves navigation for columns of text, multi-page views, tables, text wrapped around images, and dropped cap letters.

A blind screen reader user encountered accessibility issues during an online banking identity verification process. Unlabeled buttons and inaccessible pop-ups led to account restrictions and hours of recovery work. This highlights the importance of accessible mobile banking for usability, customer trust, and operational risk reduction.

Isaac Asimov, a prolific science fiction writer, is remembered for his vast number of publications and his unwanted advances towards women. His behaviour, often dismissed as harmless, was a pattern of unwanted touching and harassment that spanned decades and involved countless women. This aspect of his legacy raises questions about the intersection of talent, fame, and the treatment of others.

Isaac Asimov, a prominent figure in science fiction, was known for his inappropriate behaviour towards women, including unwanted touching and harassment. While some excused his actions as products of his era, this behaviour created a hostile environment for women in the science fiction community, hindering their opportunities and contributing to a culture of harassment. Asimov’s actions, though influential in the genre, overshadowed the negative impact he had on women, creating a barrier to their full participation and success.

Principled Coarse-Graining (PCG) accelerates speech token generation by verifying proposals at the level of Acoustic Similarity Groups (ASGs) derived from the target model’s embedding space. This approach increases acceptance and throughput while maintaining intelligibility and speaker similarity.

The CIA has discontinued The World Factbook, a valuable public-facing intelligence publication. The entire site, including archives, has been removed, but the 2020 version is available on GitHub.

A call to create products that adapt to different cognitive approaches.

AI roleplay platform with strong narration, world state tracking, and customizable templates. Supports multiple agents, long-term memory, and creative tools for scenario creation.

A civil action was brought against a minor defendant in Alberta after a dispute over a toy dinosaur resulted in a serious injury to the plaintiff’s finger. The court found no liability on the part of the defendant’s parents, who were not supervising, or the defendant himself, citing the incident as an accidental “fluke” injury. The plaintiff’s lack of medical records also contributed to the court’s decision.

The concept of the “accessibility unicorn” is often dismissed as unrealistic. However, the issue lies not in the existence of such individuals, but in the unrealistic expectations placed upon them, including inadequate budgets, limited resources, and a lack of a long-term strategy.

The creation of a dedicated accessibility stage at CES 2023 led to poor coverage of accessibility products and innovations. This segregation risks creating “accessibility ghettos” of inferior, expensive products and hinders mainstream media’s understanding of accessibility in mainstream technology. The author advocates for integrating accessibility into the mainstream CES to ensure broader coverage and encourage all manufacturers to prioritize accessibility.

Download Ax RPG II by Katsunori Sasamoto on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips and more games like Ax RPG II.

Walter Benjamin’s 1935 essay, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproducibility,” explores the impact of mass media on art and society. He argues that mass media, such as film and photography, diminishes the “aura” of art by creating a spectacle that replaces authentic experience with a simulated intimacy. Benjamin also connects this phenomenon to fascism, suggesting that the aestheticization of politics can lead to the glorification of violence and the loss of meaningful human connection.

The comments system is plagued with spam, ranging from sycophantic praise to bizarre advertisements. Some spam is threatening, while others offer useless trivia or paragraphs of random information. The most shocking spam includes explicit content, questionable products, and even a poorly translated ad for an adult doll.

A single conversation between Hermione and Neville in November of their fourth year changed the course of Harry's friendships forever. Eventual HHr.

Instead of blocking AI crawlers out of frustration, content creators should embrace deep AI integrations to ensure accurate recommendations and better user experiences. Disappearing from AI results won't make AI go away.

Long live the open web!

With new global standards reshaping expectations, Ayala Gordon and Sarah Lewthwaite argue that accessibility must move from compliance afterthought to strategic priority across every part of the university.

New York Governor Kathy Hochul proposed allowing dancing by default in taverns and bars, and creating a new hybrid restaurant-tavern license. This would bring transparency to establishments that currently operate as nightclubs but self-identify as restaurants. While the proposal aims to improve trust and reduce confusion, it still requires dancing licenses for bars and taverns and prohibits dancing in restaurants.

The Accessible Solitaire app is designed for all players, including those who are blind or partially sighted. It features iOS VoiceOver screen reader support, in-app features for easier card visibility, and compatibility with iOS Voice Access and Switch Access for gameplay using speech or switch devices.

In the complex tapestry of Wizarding Britain, a single loose thread can unravel the most intricately woven of plans.
In October 1983, a seemingly minor discrepancy in a goblin accounting ledger is discovered in an audit, and the investigation it sparks begins to unravel the plans of some highly placed people in the Wizarding World. It changes the trajectory of everything and sets Harry Potter, Sirius Black, Narcissa Malfoy, Minerva McGonagall, Ragnok Winterkill, and Amelia Bones on new courses in their lives.

A botched ritual cast by a neo-Death Eater sends Harry, Hermione, and Ron back in time to the moment of Voldemort's resurrection. In the bodies of Voldemort, Bellatrix, and Lucius. It's time for fun and/or chaos to ensue.

This is a new release of LaunchType. For the user manual see https://www.oriolgomez.com/software/

In a world with a long-standing curse, one young wizard finds himself in a magical castle full of witches and not many wizards so he's going to learn a lot about what that means and what type of person he wants to grow up into.

A structured Claude Code template for creating accessibility mods that make games playable with screen readers - HappyStarfish/Accessibility-mod-template

Contribute to FioraXena/Cookie-Clicker-Enhanced-NVDA-Accessibility-Steam-Only- development by creating an account on GitHub.

Tired of NVDASapi? Got you covered! Contribute to ogomez92/clipsapi development by creating an account on GitHub.

Accessible chess board simulation for blind people

Download Archivist Browser by Robert Lothian on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips and more games like Archivist Browser.

C# remake of Usurper (1993), the classic BBS door game of dungeon crawling, political intrigue, and throne usurpation. - binary-knight/usurper-reloaded

A BepInEx plugin that makes The Bazaar accessible for blind players using screen readers (via Tolk).> a repository to make the bazaar game accesible for blind people - Ali-Bueno/bazaar-access

A Windows PE header is followed by a shell script that extracts and decodes an ELF file, marking it executable and running it. The script then cleans up the temporary file. The extracted ELF file contains LZMA-packed x86_64 Linux code, which includes HTML content and a packed JavaScript game.

Shadows of The Circuit is a game where sound is your only ally in a dystopian world. Navigate procedurally generated sectors, strategically upgrade your abilities, and use 3D audio to evade drones and escape. The game is fully accessible, featuring VoiceOver support for visually impaired players.

The delay in releasing CP/M-86, the 16-bit version of CP/M, was a significant factor in its downfall. While the delay was partly due to the success of CP/M 2.2, which required extensive support for OEMs, the primary reason was the time-consuming development of a new PL/I compiler. This diversion from CP/M development ultimately led to IBM choosing MS-DOS for their PC.

Microsoft’s SoftCard, a hardware card that enabled the Apple II to run CP/M, became a major success and the most popular platform for CP/M. This success, however, strained DRI’s resources, delaying CP/M-86 and leading to the development of 86-DOS by SCP, which Microsoft later acquired and rebranded as MS-DOS. Despite initial success, CP/M-86 struggled against MS-DOS, ultimately leading to DRI’s decline and acquisition by Novell in 1991.

GrabScanGo, in partnership with Storm Interface and Vispero, has launched an accessible self-checkout experience for visually impaired shoppers. The solution integrates tactile hardware and screen-reader technology, allowing users to independently scan items, review purchases, and pay. This ADA-compliant system is available now and is being showcased at NRF 2026.

Safari 17.4 introduced a native HTML switch element, progressively enhancing <input type=“checkbox”> with the switch attribute. A polyfill is available for browsers lacking native support, adding accessibility features like ARIA roles and high-contrast support. The polyfill also handles writing modes and directionality, and is available on npm and GitHub.

HearLight Canvas is a painting app for blind and low-vision users, where colours are represented as audible elements and painting consists of placing and shaping sound on a canvas using touch. The app is fully accessible with VoiceOver and offers features like colour selection, brush size and opacity, pan and zoom, and undo and redo.

Blazor Ramp aims to provide a suite of modular, accessible-first Blazor components, delivered individually via NuGet.

She claims the company promoted White male colleagues while passing over Black women

TAccess v1.0.0, a fully accessible Telegram client, is released. It features a keyboard-efficient interface, chat management, bot interaction, and multi-language support.

Download MUDBasher by Andrew Goldfinch on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more games like MUDBasher.

Thrown back in time from 2019 to 1991, a grown and disgruntled Harry Potter finally has the chance to change his life for the better, fixing things before everything went wrong and becoming the father figure for his younger self that he never had. Maybe he now actually has a chance at happiness, both for him and his younger self, and just maybe a chance at romance as well...

A tool that helps you calibrate cells across your Braille displays through your Windows screen reader. - tgeczy/BrailleDisplay_calibration

Download Vox libri by Jonatan Chacon Barbero on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more games like Vox libri.

Contribute to skiwlkr/TrayRemote development by creating an account on GitHub.

Zart is a Dart-based interpreter library for playing Interactive Fiction (IF) games, supporting Z-Machine and Inform v6 & v7 games. It includes a CLI player, a Flutter Web Player, and an API for building custom players. The project is open-source and welcomes contributions.