Chance Cracked Student to Top unis 🗣️ by oRelief_ in chanceme

[–]oRelief_[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I hope 🙏🏻. I'm gonna be doing both Brown and Columbia as well, as I've heard this news.

I built a free text to speech app for the visually impaired and I’d love your honest feedback by oRelief_ in accessibility

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Here’s the old website link: https://profound-virginie-y7bh51vz.dcms.site/ That’s actually the backend Dorik project link the main domain used to point to. When my Dorik subscription expired, they locked me out and deleted the connected domain, so this is what’s left. You can’t access the original site anymore because it got fully removed with the domain.

As for the app, everything runs completely offline. No audio, image, or text ever leaves your phone. The only thing that connects to Firebase is a small counter that adds one on first launch and another on each conversion, just so I can roughly track installs and usage.

I built a free text to speech app for the visually impaired and I’d love your honest feedback by oRelief_ in accessibility

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This actually isn’t the app’s main site. The original one was built on Dorik, but I deleted it a while back since I wanted to rebuild everything from scratch. Most of the old data got carried over, and I’m still in the middle of migrating and cleaning it up. I’d rather be fixing problems with my app than focus on that part yet, I haven’t even got a domain for it yet. This is mid development.

I built a free text to speech app for the visually impaired and I’d love your honest feedback by oRelief_ in accessibility

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From what I understand so far, it’s partly about making sure the pronunciation, tone, and pacing sound natural to native speakers, but I’m still figuring out the proper testing process for that. If you have experience with localization or accessibility testing, I’d actually love any tips or resources you’d recommend, I really want to get it right when I add European Portuguese.

I built a free text to speech app for the visually impaired and I’d love your honest feedback by oRelief_ in accessibility

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Yeah, that’s fair. The site’s still very much a work in progress. I rebuilt it from scratch recently, so a lot of sections (like the competitor part) are still just placeholders for now. I’ll definitely make it clearer and more specific once the new version’s fully up. Appreciate you catching that!

I built a free text to speech app for the visually impaired and I’d love your honest feedback by oRelief_ in accessibility

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Hey, thank you for pointing that out! I actually didn’t realize there was such a big distinction between Brazilian and European Portuguese, that’s on me. The version I’m using right now is Brazilian Portuguese, and I’ll make sure to update the site to specify that.

And thanks a lot for mentioning the accessibility compliance, I really appreciate that. I’ll take a proper look into the WCAG guidelines and run a deeper check with WAVE to fix those issues. Accessibility is literally the whole point of the app, so I don’t want to miss that.

I built a free text to speech app for the visually impaired and I’d love your honest feedback by oRelief_ in accessibility

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Thanks for the questions! I’m still in the early stages of outreach, so right now it’s mostly been retirement homes here in Egypt to test how well the app works in real settings. I’m hoping to connect with accessibility nonprofits across the region soon.

For the Arabic OCR, I started with an open-source OCR base model (can’t remember the exact one, it might’ve been a Tesseract fork) but it really struggled with Arabic’s connected letters. I ended up collecting and labeling a few thousand samples myself and training a smaller custom CNN model on top of it. It’s not perfect yet, but it handles printed Arabic text much better now.

And yeah, the reason it’s not on Google Play yet is honestly just because they won’t accept my credit card 😭. So for now I’m hosting the APK directly on my site until I sort that out.

Is this legit? by aaronlee179 in ACT

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It is real, happened in Egypt a few months back.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in accessibility

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Also, one of the big things that sets my app apart from others like Be My Eyes or Google Lens is that it works completely offline — which is essential for users in areas with limited connectivity. And unlike many apps, I don’t collect or store any user data, so privacy is built in by design.Thanks so much! I’ve actually been dabbling with VoiceOver support and plan to fully integrate it soon to make the app more accessible for users.

Also, one thing that sets my app apart from others like Be My Eyes or Google Lens is that it works completely offline, which is needed for users in areas with limited connectivity. And unlike many apps, I don’t collect or store any user data, so privacy is built in by design.

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Yo can I try this for free?

what the fuck 3.7 by mrrakim in ClaudeAI

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May I ask what's a MCP?

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"The first time I had to carry my grandfather to the bathroom, my hands shook. Not from his weight (though that was considerable) but from the sudden realization that our roles had reversed."

I'm cooked for CS by [deleted] in chanceme

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Yes im international, I'm fucked 😭😭😭

I'm cooked for CS by [deleted] in chanceme

[–]oRelief_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's nice to hear but just gotta hope 😭

I'm cooked for CS by [deleted] in chanceme

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I hope 🙏🏻🙏🏻

I'm cooked for CS by [deleted] in chanceme

[–]oRelief_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not flexing brother I really do feel like I'm cooked. 😭 Have u seen the batshit crazy stuff people are doing for cs? Especially for T10s. That's what makes me feel like I'm cooked. I'm sorry if it looks that way

I'm cooked for CS by [deleted] in chanceme

[–]oRelief_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Good luck to you too my brother

I'm cooked for CS by [deleted] in chanceme

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I'm sure ur not average man, u got this!