I do not understand why the Melania movie gets no views… I mean, this Bruce Springsteen song called "Streets of Minneapolis" has gotten 3 million views in under 24 hours.
He does not want to walk up. He does not want to be carried up. He doesn’t want to go through the door. He wants to sit at the bottom of the stairs and scream.
Tomorrow at @fosdem : @benjaminbellamy will launch @podlibre ! Podlibre: Podcast Audio Editing for the AI Age 🚀 Track: Audio, Video & Graphics Creation 🏠 Room: UA2.220 (Guillissen) 📅 Day: Sunday Feb 1st ⏰ Start (UTC+1): 12:10 👉 fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event…
1. Record yourself (or someone) saying a small set of diphones or even just sustained vowels/consonants 2. Extract the residual (what's left after you inverse-filter out the formants) 3. Use THAT as the excitation source instead of the mathematical LF pulse 4. The formant filters would shape it, but the "texture" would be real voice It's basically what CELP/LPC vocoders do, but in reverse - instead of coding speech, you're generating it with a hybrid source. Tools like Praat, STRAIGHT, or various MATLAB/Python libraries can do this. The result sounds like a weird buzzy/creaky "brrrrr" - not like speech at all, because all the "vowel-ness" has been taken out.
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The two weeks before a launch, it is SOP for NASA astronauts to wear respirators and avoid crowds so that they don't jeopardize the mission with an illness. What do you do before your big events? Do you take care to protect yourself and others? Or do you just wing it and hope you don't get yourself or others sick at the event?
I just published a new post on my Substack. If you’re a blind and disabled student, this one may hit close to home. I wrote about the quiet panic that comes with syllabi and textbooks and the very real difference between “accessible eventually” and “accessible now." This isn’t a jab at professors or disability services. It’s about how systems are set up, why timing matters, and why tools like OpenStax can completely change a semester by removing the wait. If you teach, design curricula, or care about access in higher ed, I hope this offers some perspective. Boosts would be appreciated so this can reach educators and more students. #Accessibility #DisabilityInSTEM #HigherEd #OpenStax open.substack.com/pub/accessin…
iOS just gave me the following automatic description of an image on a website. a pair of black headphones next to black text on a white background that might be a hospital. Yeah, I'm guessing it probably isn't a hospital. No idea about the rest, either.
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