This program gets all definitions of a user-entered word from WORDS API service called RAPIDAPI. Once connected, the response is in JSON and we display the meanings neatly on screen as well as optionally write (append) the word and its meanings(s) and part-of-speech to a csv file. Demonstrates: 1) how to get word definition using […]
Tag: programming
Extract sample subset with given criteria
How to load a subset of data from a full dataset with given percentages proportions by a column (“Group” in this example) plus how to import/export the Excel data file. Objective:We have n food items from 4 different groups: dairy, fruits, protein, vegetable in an XLSX sheet with a header and 3 columns: Name, Group, […]
Generative Voice AI – resemble.ai
I don’t like the ending tone in some of the words as I don’t use that tone; it seems a bit annoying; also I noticed (may or may not be apparent to you from this quick sample), but the AI model seems to have a more British tonality than American for certain words and expressions. […]
Summarization & Detecting Topics by Deepgram Whisper AI
This is the last of 3-part series on Datagram’s Audio->Text Transcriber using their latest AI engine called Whisper. Be sure to read them in this order, if you haven’t already, to follow along best: To complete essentially all the features I care to implement, today I’m going to add the last 2 features in my […]
AI Transcription with Diarization
This is the last of 3-part series on Datagram’s Audio->Text Transcriber using their latest AI engine called Whisper. Be sure to read them in this order, if you haven’t already, to follow along best: This is a continuation of the post about Deepgram’s AI technology used for transcribing real-time or pre-recorded audio in virtually any […]
Powerful auto-transcription using AI (openAI’s Whisper)
Today, I’ll show you how to tap into the “world’s most powerful speech-to-text API” from our own applications. We’ll be using Deepgram, which is based on OpenAI’s Whisper AI SST technology. Deepgram claims to have trained their AI model with10,000+ years worth of audio data. (For more of my posts about Text to Speech and vice […]
One of the newest TTS on the block
Today, I’ll share some information on one of the latest transformer-based TTS (text-to-speech) or text-to-audio that’s generating some buzz. Yes, AI. While there are several really great models out there from IBM, Microsoft, Google for example, this one’s a little different. Let me introduce Bark. By the way, to see older posts on TTS related […]
Movies Searchable Database Webapp is Back
It’s back and it’s better…now includes more updated, focused, and curated list of movie titles. Read more about it here (includes basic instructions + technical information on how it’s done start to finish). Or, you can simply go ahead and use the app by clicking here directly.
How to get exact color values and convert them
In this post, I’ll show you how to get exact RGB colors from an image and then freely convert them to Hex, and from Hex to RGB depending on your needs, whether it’s for CSS or for your application interface. Being a 12th man of the Seattle Seahawks, I’ll naturally start with the Seahawks logo. […]
Creating iCalender files (Events)
In my previous blog, I shared how to read an existing event file in iCalendar format (commonly with ICS extension). Be sure to read that before continuing. Here, I’ll show you how to create one from scratch. Let’s support we want an event that is:starting on feb 09, 2023 at 1pm and ending at 2pm […]