This one explains why TTS is not just a... pronunciation problem i gave Cartesia and ElevenLabs the same sentence with bass, read, lead, bow, and a few other words that change pronunciation based on context Cartesia is currently #1 on the Artificial Analysis TTS leaderboard ElevenLabs is #5 This comparison makes the difference easier to hearshow more

@Cartesia & Fish Audio both are speaking the exact... same English sentence. The question is whether the accent feels consistent and natural, or whether it starts disappearing once the sentence gets going. This is another area where the leaderboard gap starts to make sense.show more

i dont know how we missed this but we... have direct confirmation that michelle yeoh will be playing a na’vi character in 4 and 5 named paktueylat (no confirmation on the spelling of the name yet so this is my guess based on pronunciation)show more

Elevenlabs-level TTS on your laptop. I'm always skeptical about... new AI models hyped up sounding too good to be true. But this...is crazy good. And now, you can run the gradio app by tyler on your laptop with 1 click. Meet Elon Musk, from Silicon Valley.show more

May be the most difficult hurdle for a wrestler... to clear—trusting that the same offense that built the lead is what protects it. The instinct is to protect the lead, but the approach that creates better odds, less regret, and is simply more logical is to keep wrestling the same way that created the lead. Stay on the attack, stay in position, and keep applying pressure. The one who needs to change and create opportunity is the opponent who is losing. So why would you go ahead and assist them in this by back peddling and lead protecting, opening up two windows that weren’t there before? 1 – Stall points 2 – Allowing your opponent to solely focus on their offense as they no longer have to respect your attacks. You hear wrestlers in post-match interviews “We do this all the time in the room! Down 2 with 30 seconds left and working to find a takedown.” Not so much the opposite… “up 2 with 30 seconds left and just have to find ways to back up to protect the lead!” So why resort to something you don’t practice in the most crucial moments of a match—or your season? This is from the excellent series “The Climb” by Stilly Boys on YouTube — a segment from Episode 2: Road to the Big 12s.show more

4.6 stayed at 1.5 trillion. On Artificial Analysis it... sits with Sol at 61. The API is $2 and $6, not Sol's $5 and $30. 4.7 jumps to 2.1 trillion. That is the first real scale step, plus a SpaceX engineering data pass on top. I called that jump before this ship window. The date is only interesting if it lands. Then Grok is not only cheap and fast. It is in the smartest tier too.show more

A UFC fight is taking place on the South... Lawn of the White House. Read that sentence again. Not a state dinner. Not a bill signing. Not a ceremony honoring military service. A cage fight. The remarkable part isn't that it happened. The remarkable part is how many people now hear that sentence and think it's completely normal.show more

This is insane. ElevenLabs AI can now clone the... voice of someone that speaks English and let them say things in a language, they don't speak. And this is all done just using a single prompt 👇show more

This play is hilarious because they run a Davion-Bam... pick and roll, get the switch they want, and Mitchell decides he’ll just take Giannis 1-on-1 Not only that, but help is sent??? Great read and pass to Pelle on the kick to ice the gameshow more

The bar for African language TTS has just been... raised 🇬🇭 Listen to the quality of these new Asante (male AND female) TTS voices. This is the natural, authentic sound being worked towards. Genuinely believe this sets a new benchmark. This is a huge opportunity for integration. Let's give our apps the voice they deserve. Link in cs 👇show more

This is not a border dispute. It is a... sermon. A Hamas leader on a Gaza stage tells seven million Palestinians abroad to stop warming up. There are Jews everywhere, he says. Attack every Jew on Earth. Slaughter them. Kill them. With Allah’s help. The crowd is not a war room. It is a public. Hamas did not invent that sentence. Hamas is but one franchise of it. Islamic Jihad says the same thing with a different logo. Hezbollah wraps it in Khomeini and the language of “the Zionist entity.” The Houthis put “death to Israel, curse the Jews” on a flag and call it governance. The regime in Tehran funds the network and calls the Jewish state a tumor. Different uniforms. Same theology. For them, Jewish sovereignty is an insult to Allah, and Jewish lives outside the land are not off-limits. That is why “from the river to the sea” is not a housing policy, and why October 7 was not an accident of occupation. The target list in this clip is not a soldier at a checkpoint. It is Jews as such, wherever they are. Once the enemy is a people, not a government, there is no ceasefire that satisfies the idea. There is only a pause. Western coverage keeps shrinking this to one militia and one strip of coast because a regional ideology is harder to manage than a “peace process.” Factions are useful that way. They let you condemn Hamas on Tuesday and treat Hezbollah as Lebanese politics on Wednesday and the Houthis as a shipping problem on Thursday. The preacher does not bother with those folders. He names the Jews and asks the diaspora to start. If you want to understand the war, start with what they say when they are not fundraising in English. The map they want is not two states. It is a world with fewer Jews in it, sanctified as duty. Hamas is the local office. The ideology is the corporation.show more

This video show the network requests that Twitter is... currently making when I attempt to view a tweet. Just gonna go out on a limb here and speculate that maybe the actual problem is Twitter trying to refresh itself 20 times every second, rather than "scraping".show more

This feature is what I am proud of the... most! I have built an algorithm that searches images based on a color and the algorithm will sort images based on how close the color is to the color selected and how dominant that color is in the image.show more

I routinely use a 22Fr resectoscope and rarely exceed... 24Fr. In my experience, a 26Fr instrument is often unnecessarily large for a standard urethra. This side-by-side comparison in the same urethra highlights the difference between 26Fr and 24Fr. The 24Fr offers easier passage while preserving excellent visualization and irrigation flow. Bigger isn’t always better. Sometimes, the optimal balance is achieved with a smaller caliber. What is your preferred sheath size and why? #HoLEP #BPH #Prostateshow more

This is why I can’t stand grocery delivery. No... one can pick up the veggies for me based on how evenly shaped they are, just so they’re easier and prettier to cut. Or is my OCD just acting up? Anyway, what should I make for lunch?show more

Making data easy to understand is more than just... showing numbers Pexo I used Pexo to turn charts, screenshots, voice-over and animated text into a visual story that explains the idea clearly instead of leaving people to figure out a dashboard on their own For research, campaign results and business insights, showing the context behind the numbers makes a big differenceshow more

🧵Calling out and documenting the deeply gross and ongoing... misogynistic behavior from Gremloe and Cinemarxism (Bret), towards vio 🖤✨ as well as others, over the past 10 months+. To be very clear, I am not litigating interpersonal beef. This is a factual accounting of their actions and how this behavior is unacceptable. Full context will be provided so you can see for yourself, along with links to VODs and VOD segments to show that I am not clipping out of context or creating a narrative. This is just the truth. As to why I am doing this, well here what Bret has to say on that fact:show more

🇺🇸 🇮🇷 BREAKING: TRUMP JUST PULLED THE PLUG ON... IRAN'S OIL MONEY! Iran wanted to play games in the Strait of Hormuz. Three tankers hit with unknown projectiles in a matter of days. Now the bill just came due. The Treasury Department is revoking the license that let Iran sell oil under the June ceasefire deal. That waiver was a gift, not a right, and Iran just spat on it. A US official put it plainly. "As President Trump and the administration have repeatedly affirmed, the MOU in effect with Iran is entirely performance based." Translation. Behave or lose the deal. Another official didn't mince words either. "Iran's actions in the Strait were wholly unacceptable to the United States and will be met with consequences." This is not a slap on the wrist. Oil exports are Iran's lifeline to China and its only real source of hard currency. Cutting that off is aiming straight at the regime's wallet. Iran signed up for a deal that required keeping the strait open. Instead they fired on a Qatari LNG carrier, a Saudi supertanker, and a third vessel hit by a drone. That is not a misunderstanding. That is a pattern. You do not get to torch tankers with one hand and collect sanctions relief with the other. Oil prices jumped more than three percent on the news, proof that markets know exactly what this means. Consequences are not just words anymore. Iran wanted leverage. What they got was a reminder that Trump's deals come with strings, and he is not afraid to pull them.show more