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 […]
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Text-to-Speech (TTS) and Pandas (POTUS data)
In this post, I introduce you to my Python 3.x program that reads an external data file containing all president names of the USA to-date (2022), and that allows users to enter a query to and hear the names of presidents as the result. The query can be a number such as a first N […]
Did Seahawks Need an Overhaul for 2024 season?
Seattle Seahawks find themselves at a crossroads after the 2023 NFL season. The team faces critical decisions regarding their coaching staff and personnel. Changes came hard and fast to some fans’ surprise, and to some, expectedly if not a little later than expected. Whatever your position is there are arguments for both supporting an overhaul […]
All About NFL’s Top Heach Coaches
I dug some information on some of the 32 head coaches in NFL today, and did some analayses. I was intrigued by their performance, compensation, their roots, their network and influence, correlations among various parameters like age, experience, wins, and salary. I also looked at how many teams they’ve coached in the past, and how […]
Early gambler’s prediction of Super Bowl winner for 2023 season
Here are the probabilities of each team winning the Super Bowl according to the betting odds from Caesars Sportsbook as of September 6, 2022: As you can see, the Buffalo Bills had the highest probability of winning the Super Bowl according to the betting odds, followed by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Green Bay Packers, who […]
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 […]
Mass and Energy – Explained Simply
In this blog, I explain in simple terms, the relationships between mass, weight, and ultimately energy as it relates to anything, including your own body mass, and how all of this can be tied to Einstein’s equation: E=MC^2. By the end of this post, you’ll be able to tell how much energy is stored within […]
Carbon footprint estimation made easy
Indeed, “Climate change” has been the hot topic for the last couple of weeks. It even surpassed the hubbub around the pandemic the world is experiencing for the past 2 years and counting! Thanks to COP26…the gathering of the “relevant” world leaders to discuss top, pressing issues of the world, the list of which contains […]
Ig Nobel Prize Winners: 2021
The winners of the 2021 Ig Nobel Prize are announced today. One of them caught my attention, which happens to be in the Economics category by Pavlo Blavatskyy for for discovering that the obesity of a country’s politicians may be a good indicator of that country’s corruption. Very interesting indeed and although it made me […]
Speech Recognition and back (using AI/Python)
In one of my earlier blogs, I shared tips on how to build a Text-To-Speech application in Python, which you can read in the post: Interactive Text-To-Speech App… In this post, I’ll show you the reverse…where we can take our voice, and even an audio-recording, and transcript them into English text. Once I do that, […]