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• Post #1965813

  I just posted this on X & LinkedIn: 1. Still very low competition for podcast episode keywords. 2. AI slop will capture some of this (thus far, much of it is terrible) which means we are going to need better curated directories of podcast episodes. Perfect 'side project' opportunity.

• Post #1965812

  Never heard of Simon Squibb, but apparently he started his business with a podcast in 2019. Not sure I'll make it through the 2 hours and 26 minutes 😂 https://x.com/simonsquibb/status/2040169539535569274

• Post #1965811

  If you want a faster whisper, try "ctranslate2" for transcription: pipx install whisper-ctranslate2 I'm using it like this in bash... whisper-ctranslate2 "$AUDIO_FILE" \ --model large-v3-turbo \ --device cpu \ --compute_type int8 --output_format txt --language en --output_dir . Much faster than whisper 'medium' and better quality sentence structure IMO.

• Post #1965810

  Putting off trying qwen3 TTS? I recommend this C application -- easy installation, good documentation, very fast on CPU & no Python headaches! https://github.com/gabriele-mastrapasqua/qwen3-tts/tree/main I was able to clone my voice easily -- and it's free. I recommend starting with the 0.6b model for cloning and experiment with different seeds. 1.7b should be better, but for whatever reason, the smaller model sounds better -- either I'm doing something wrong, or the...

• Post #1965809

  Tried to login to YouTube last night, because I refreshed my cookies or whatever. They texted me, they emailed me, they wanted my home address (404 BITE ME AVENUE), I had to solve three CAPTCHAS, they wanted a backup email address, and was then given a "temporary" Gmail because "something broke" -- total insanity. This is some mark of the beast bullshit. Maybe I forego some lucrative 'monetization' but at least I'm not contributing...

• Post #1965808

  This is not really podcasting related, but two projects I'm working on: 1. I created an agent called "BookDev" for a book I'm writing. I suppose you could call it a "harness" for book PDFs. So far so good. I'm designing the cover as a PNG, prompted the background design/art in ComfyUI, added the text in GIMP. 2. I need to migrate some old client websites. Looking into FrankenPHP. I've been using Nginx for two decades, so I&a...

• Post #1965806

  I finally used IPv6 for the first time ever, intentionally. My local Qwen model says: You have officially unlocked the "18 quintillion" addresses for your use! 🚀 I'm going to try setting up a VM with "libvert" not sure what I'm doing yet, wish me luck 😂 🙏