Feb 8 · 3 min read · Text-to-speech is one of those things that looks solved—until you actually try to use it in a real workflow. The voices are good. The models are impressive.And then it mispronounces one word. Every time. This post walks through a small Python script ...
Join discussionFeb 7 · 4 min read · I’ve been experimenting with text-to-speech recently as part of a side project. The goal wasn’t anything exotic: take a written script and reliably turn it into spoken audio. The constraints, however, were very developer-shaped. I wanted something I ...
Join discussionJan 28 · 15 min read · Picking up where we left off Welcome again! 👋🏾 If you haven’t already, I recommend reading Part 1 of this series to get a wholistic idea of what I was trying to accomplish when I set out to build Listen Better. That post contains a lot more detail ...
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Jan 24 · 5 min read · ElevenLabs charged me $22 last month for voice generation. For a side project that gets maybe 200 users. Most of that cost came from testing. i kept tweaking prompts, trying different voices, regenerating the same sentences. The API worked great. But...
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Dec 21, 2025 · 8 min read · Lately, I've found myself lost in the rabbit hole of synthetic voices. There's something profoundly eerie and captivating about feeding a machine a paragraph of prose and hearing it emerge with inflection, breath, and that subtle lilt that makes lang...
Join discussionNov 11, 2025 · 4 min read · If you’re exploring AI voice generation or text to speech (TTS), you’ve probably come across ElevenLabs, Murf AI, Speechify, or Play.ht — impressive tools, but all with heavy paywalls and character limits. That’s where WevoLabs comes in. It’s a compl...
Join discussionOct 14, 2025 · 5 min read · Tired of voice assistants that take forever to reply, making the chat feel slow and robotic? The trick to building a fast, natural AI voice agent is simple don’t depend on one provider for everything. In this guide, I’ll walk you through how I built ...
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Oct 14, 2025 · 3 min read · 1. The Silence Before the Voice There was a time when technology only listened with its eyes.It read our keystrokes, our clicks, and our taps — but it never truly heard us. We spent years typing into boxes and waiting for screens to reply.The relatio...
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Sep 13, 2025 · 5 min read · TL;DR The LLM4S Scala library has been extended to fully support speech-to-text (ASR) and text-to-speech (TTS) as first-class modalities. This GSoC 2025 contribution adds a comprehensive speech subsystem, enabling voice input/output alongside text. K...
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Aug 27, 2025 · 7 min read · Last week, while waiting for a tram in Lisbon, I pulled up an audio article on my phone. It was one of those long‑form pieces converted to speech by a synthetic voice. The words were accurate, but the delivery felt robotic-monotone, with awkward paus...
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