# tts (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 5 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover tts. Page: Feed: --- ## [I shipped 713 pages and Google shrugged for three weeks](https://www.salahadawi.com/blog/713-pages-google-shrugged/) _2026-08-18 · Salah Adawi · Salah Adawi_ A build log of Tfaddalu's how-to-say pages: what programmatic SEO looks like when every page is backed by a real corpus, and what Search Console actually shows while Google decides whether to care. ## [How I generate YouTube Shorts programmatically with Remotion](https://www.salahadawi.com/blog/arabic-shorts-remotion-pipeline/) _2026-08-18 · Salah Adawi · Salah Adawi_ The full pattern behind my Arabic learning Shorts: videos defined as JSON, audio measured into frames before render time, and the flags that make Remotion renders reliable. ## [Fixing Remotion's "Visited http://localhost but got no response"](https://www.salahadawi.com/blog/remotion-visited-localhost-no-response-fix/) _2026-08-18 · Salah Adawi · Salah Adawi_ Remotion renders dying with "Visited http://localhost:PORT/index.html but got no response"? The three flags that made my renders finish every time, and why a single frame test saves you. ## [My Custom Hugo Theme](https://myByways.com/blog/my-custom-hugo-theme/) _2026-08-15 · myByways_ It’s been three weeks since I started with Hugo and it’s taken me this long to change my theme, because I engineered one from scratch. Alas it looks like my previous Grav theme because I can’t figure out something prettier. ## [Hugo with PageFind Search](https://myByways.com/blog/hugo-with-pagefind-search-and-more/) _2026-07-26 · myByways_ I wanted to use Pagefind with my new Hugo-compiled blog. Alas, by default the PaperMod theme does not use PageFind but instead uses Fuse.js . Onward! ## [Migrating from Grav to Hugo](https://myByways.com/blog/migrating-from-grav-to-hugo/) _2026-07-25 · myByways_ Due to issues with updating PHP on my shared hosting which I cannot be bothered to resolve, I am now considering migrating from Grav to Hugo . ## [Self-Hosting voice services (TTS, ASR, Wake Word)](https://blog.cryptomilk.org/2026/07/20/self-hosting-voice-services-tts-asr-wake-word/) _2026-07-20 · Andreas Schneider · Andreas Schneider_ TL;DR https://codeberg.org/cryptomilk/crane-wyoming Where I started I use Home Assistant, and for text-to-speech (TTS) I ve been running Piper through Wyoming Piper. Piper is a fast, local neural TTS engine originally built for the Rhasspy project and now maintained by the Open Home Foundation. It s designed to run entirely offline, even on modest hardware like a Raspberry Pi. Wyoming is the open… ## [Catching the warmth, losing the words: why I built Tfaddalu](https://www.salahadawi.com/blog/why-i-built-tfaddalu/) _2026-06-25 · Salah Adawi · Salah Adawi_ I grew up catching the warmth of my family's Palestinian Arabic but never the words. Textbook Arabic only widened the gap, so I built Tfaddalu to start where I wish I had: at the table. ## [RSS is live](https://www.timlig.com/posts/rss-is-live/) _2026-05-08 · anujsharmax@gmail.com (Anuj Sharma) · Timlig — Field notes on systems, teams, and AI infrastructure_ Timlig now publishes a feed at /rss.xml. Point your reader at it and new posts will show up on their own. ## [The Two-Rupee Voice](https://www.timlig.com/posts/two-rupee-voice/) _2026-05-07 · anujsharmax@gmail.com (Anuj Sharma) · Timlig — Field notes on systems, teams, and AI infrastructure_ A full Hindi voice conversation with an AI now costs about two rupees end-to-end — fifteen times cheaper than mid-2024. The model is built, the compute is subsidized, the languages mostly work. What's missing is somebody to write the line item. ## [Sync Bookmarks Everywhere (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/fJt4AnPhEr3G) _2026-05-06 · **Sponsored**_ Two-way sync keeps folders and toolbar intact across Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. ## [Sovereign AI in India: A Word in Search of a Definition](https://www.timlig.com/posts/sovereign-ai-india/) _2026-05-04 · anujsharmax@gmail.com (Anuj Sharma) · Timlig — Field notes on systems, teams, and AI infrastructure_ Walking the AI stack layer by layer — energy, silicon, chips, compute, networking, data, models, applications, governance — to ask what 'sovereign AI' actually means in India, and where the money is going. ## [Announcing Sigrún (Run a command)](https://blog.cryptomilk.org/2026/04/27/announcing-sigrun/) _2026-04-27 · Andreas Schneider · Andreas Schneider_ Some time ago I used a feature in KDE called Run a command when an event triggered. It triggered for me when a calendar event fired and used Piper TTS to read the event to me out loud. A small popup and a pling don t work for me. I tried to get the feature back into KDE, but since the merge request isn t going anywhere ## [The Cheapest GPUs in the World](https://www.timlig.com/posts/cheapest-gpus-in-the-world/) _2026-04-27 · anujsharmax@gmail.com (Anuj Sharma) · Timlig — Field notes on systems, teams, and AI infrastructure_ The Indian government will sell you an H100-hour for 78 cents. Or zero rupees. Or four dollars. Here's why none of those are the real price. ## [A Quick Github Copilot Alternative](https://www.salahadawi.com/blog/a-quick-github-copilot-alternative/) _2026-04-22 · Salah Adawi · Salah Adawi_ After hitting the quota for GitHub Copilot, and unable to subscribe to pro, I'm forced to find an alternative. ## [How to Make a Custom GPT in ChatGPT](https://www.salahadawi.com/blog/how-to-make-a-custom-gpt-in-chatgpt/) _2026-04-12 · Salah Adawi · Salah Adawi_ Making a custom GPT is surprisingly easy inside ChatGPT. All it takes is a few prompts! ## [Apple Magic Keyboard Spacebar Fix Disaster](https://www.salahadawi.com/blog/apple-magic-keyboard-spacebar-fix-disaster/) _2026-04-10 · Salah Adawi · Salah Adawi_ Trying to fix my Apple Magic Keyboard spacebar myself did not go well... ## [iPad Numpad Not Visibile Fix April 2026](https://www.salahadawi.com/blog/ipad-numpad-not-visible-fix-april-2026/) _2026-04-09 · Salah Adawi · Salah Adawi_ How to fix iPad keyboard not being visible when needing to enter password in iPadOS 26.4 ## [Audeze Maxwell 2 Hissing - Is It Fixable?](https://www.salahadawi.com/blog/audeze-maxwell-2-hissing-is-it-fixable/) _2026-04-07 · Salah Adawi · Salah Adawi_ A common problem affecting the Audeze Maxwell 2 is a constant hissing sound. Is there any fix to it? ## [Audeze Maxwell 2 - Why I returned them](https://www.salahadawi.com/blog/audeze-maxwell-2-why-i-returned-them/) _2026-04-07 · Salah Adawi · Salah Adawi_ The Audeze Maxwell 2 are amazing headphones. But a big flaw ends up ruining the experience. ## [How to Automatically Apply Templates to New Notes in Obsidian](https://www.salahadawi.com/blog/automatically-apply-templates-obsidian/) _2026-04-02 · Salah Adawi · Salah Adawi_ Templates are a great productivity addition to Obsidian. Here is how to apply a template automatically to every new note. ## [Marketplace for AI-Powered Professionals (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/PV5LzGgVg5DS) _2026-04-01 · **Sponsored**_ Find professionals who use ChatGPT, Copilot, and Claude to deliver work faster. ## [Syncing Obsidian between Apple devices for free](https://www.salahadawi.com/blog/syncing-obsidian-between-apple-devices-for-free/) _2026-03-29 · Salah Adawi · Salah Adawi_ Obsidian offers a paid sync feature. However, there is a way to sync for free with iCloud. ## [Generating Palestinian Arabic Text-to-speech (TTS)](https://www.salahadawi.com/blog/generating-palestinian-arabic-tts/) _2026-03-27 · Salah Adawi · Salah Adawi_ Is it possible to generate text-to-speech (TTS) Arabic with a Palestinian Dialect? ## [Why you shouldn’t learn Modern Standard Arabic](https://www.salahadawi.com/blog/why-you-shouldnt-learn-msa/) _2026-03-24 · Salah Adawi · Salah Adawi_ I mistakenly spent a lot of time learning Modern Standard Arabic (MSA/Fusha); here’s what I learned. ## [Connecting Codex to Google Workspace via MCP](https://thinhdanggroup.github.io/google-workspace-mcp-for-codex/) _2026-03-21 · Thinh Dang · ThinhDA_ When you work with an AI coding agent like Codex, the real productivity gains come from letting it interact with the systems around your code — not just the code itself. Connecting Codex to Google Workspace via the Model Context Protocol (MCP) lets it search Gmail, read messages, download attachments, manage drafts, and access Calendar, Drive, Docs, Sheets, and more — all within a single… ## [Starting a blog](https://www.salahadawi.com/blog/starting-a-blog/) _2026-03-19 · Salah Adawi · Salah Adawi_ Why did it take so long? ## [Why You Can’t Buy a Data Center Right Now](https://www.timlig.com/posts/ai-supply-chain-crisis/) _2026-02-21 · anujsharmax@gmail.com (Anuj Sharma) · Timlig — Field notes on systems, teams, and AI infrastructure_ The AI boom created the worst electronics supply chain crisis in history. Here’s a simple map of what’s broken, who broke it, and when it gets fixed. ## [How a Language Model Learned to Speak Vietnamese](https://thinhdanggroup.github.io/how-a-language-model-learned-to-speak-vietnamese/) _2026-02-21 · Thinh Dang · ThinhDA_ You’ve used Google Translate’s voice feature. You know the one — you type something, hit the speaker icon, and hear a voice that is technically correct but somehow deeply wrong. It hits the right phonemes in the right order, but there’s no life in it. No rhythm. And if the language is Vietnamese, there’s a good chance it mispronounces the tones so badly that the sentence means something completely… ## [Creating an audiobook (.m4b) with FFmpeg](https://myByways.com/blog/creating-an-audiobook-m4b-with-ffmpeg/) _2026-02-15 · myByways_ Following on from my previous TTS post using Chatterbox Turbo (or any other TTS like Kokoro or Qwen3-TTT ), here is code to combine audio files in a single .m4b audiobook retaining author and title metadata, chapter markers, and a cover image. Mostly this is a Python wrapper to FFmpeg . ## [Chatterbox Turbo TTS with MLX-Audio](https://myByways.com/blog/chatterbox-turbo-tts-with-mlx-audio/) _2026-02-10 · myByways_ In my last post, I tried Qwen3-TTS … This time, I test Chatterbox Turbo by Resemble.ai , which is an open-source, MIT licensed, text-to-speech model with zero-shot cloning. ## [Qwen3-TTS with MLX-Audio on macOS](https://myByways.com/blog/qwen3-tts-with-mlx-audio-on-macos/) _2026-02-02 · myByways_ Alibaba’s Qwen3-TTS for Speech Synthesis (text-to-speech) was open-sourced (Apache-2.0) on 22 Jan 2026. And within the last couple of weeks, we now have Apple Silicon optimization via MLX-Audio . Here is code to create an audiobook from an ePub. ## [Browse ThreatCrush Modules (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/y1JkBUcfz6pU) _2026-02-01 · **Sponsored**_ Install community-built security modules to extend real-time threat intelligence and monitoring ## [Some 🌳💞 for RPM Spec](https://blog.cryptomilk.org/2026/01/20/some-tree-love-for-rpm-spec/) _2026-01-20 · Andreas Schneider · Andreas Schneider_ Two years ago, I started to look into writing a tree-sitter parser as part of the Day of Learning at my employer. As I write and edit many RPM Spec files (also at work), I wanted better highlighting in my text editor, which is Neovim. I had attempted to start the project the year before but was lost. The next year, the tree-sitter documentation improved, ## [Reflections on 2025 through the Word(s) of the Year](https://myByways.com/blog/reflections-on-2025-through-the-words-of-the-year/) _2026-01-04 · myByways_ In March 2025, I posted an opinion piece entitled “My Disillusionment with Generative AI” . Things have gotten worse since then, to the extent that “Slop” and “AI Slop” have been picked as the Word(s) of the Year for 2025. What follows are my thoughts on the trajectory of technology and, more specifically, AI, as reflected in the Word(s) of the Year (WOTY). ## [Zero-Config Backends: The Architectural Future of TypeScript Frameworks](https://thinhdanggroup.github.io/zero-config-backend-rikta/) _2026-01-02 · Thinh Dang · ThinhDA_ Zero-Config Backends: The Architectural Future of TypeScript Frameworks ## [Retries Without Thundering Herds](https://thinhdanggroup.github.io/retry-without-thundering-herds/) _2025-12-28 · Thinh Dang · ThinhDA_ Retry budgets, jitter strategies, and queue backpressure for control‑plane operations ## [Predictive Scaling 2.0: Using Reinforcement Learning to Optimize Kubernetes Autoscaling Policies](https://thinhdanggroup.github.io/predictive-reinforcement-learning-autoscaling/) _2025-12-20 · Thinh Dang · ThinhDA_ It’s 02:37. Your phone vibrates like it’s trying to tunnel through the nightstand. ## [Updating CrossOver to GamePorting Toolkit 3.0](https://myByways.com/blog/updating-crossover-to-gameporting-toolkit-3-0/) _2025-12-14 · myByways_ The current version of CrossOver 25.1.1 utilizes with Apple’s Game Porting Toolkit 2.1 . Here is how to update it to use Game Porting Toolkit 3.0 (GPTK), released (updated) on 5 December 2025, which emulates NVIDIA DLSS with MetalFX ! ## [HTMX at Scale: How Attribute-Driven Interactivity Challenges the SPA Model](https://thinhdanggroup.github.io/htmx-spa-model/) _2025-12-11 · Thinh Dang · ThinhDA_ You know the app. ## [Hardening Server-Side React: Best Practices After React2Shell](https://thinhdanggroup.github.io/vul-react2shell/) _2025-12-07 · Thinh Dang · ThinhDA_ React2Shell is the moment a lot of frontend teams discovered they actually run a server-side framework now. ## [Why Timlig Exists For A Minute](https://www.timlig.com/posts/why-timlig/) _2025-12-06 · anujsharmax@gmail.com (Anuj Sharma) · Timlig — Field notes on systems, teams, and AI infrastructure_ A shamelessly temporary name chosen to mirror how throwaway most engineering work really is. ## [CMocka 2.0 Released: Enhancing Unit Testing in C](https://blog.cryptomilk.org/2025/12/04/cmocka-2-0-released-enhancing-unit-testing-in-c/) _2025-12-04 · Andreas Schneider · Andreas Schneider_ I am thrilled to announce the release of cmocka 2.0, a milestone for the cmocka project. cmocka is a unit testing framework for C, designed to be simple, portable, and easy to use. It provides a straightforward API for writing and running tests, making it an excellent choice for developers who need to ensure the reliability and correctness of their C code. A Brief History ## [From Kafka to NATS: When Less Is More in Distributed Messaging](https://thinhdanggroup.github.io/kafka-to-nats/) _2025-12-04 · Thinh Dang · ThinhDA_ You’ve got a Kafka cluster humming in production. There are topics, partitions, consumer groups, dashboards, and an ever-growing list of “we’ll tune that later” configs. \[9\]: https://sanj.dev/post/nats-kafka-rabbitmq-messaging-comparison “NATS vs Apache Kafka vs RabbitMQ: Messaging Showdown | \[10\]: https://docs.nats.io/nats-concepts/jetstream/consumers?utm\_source=thinhdanggroup.github.io… ## [Bridging the Edge: Using NATS Leaf Nodes to Build Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Systems](https://thinhdanggroup.github.io/nats-left-nodes/) _2025-12-01 · Thinh Dang · ThinhDA_ If you’re running anything remotely serious today, your architecture probably isn’t “just” in one place. ## [Postgres as a Message Bus: Implementing Durable Event Queues with LISTEN/NOTIFY and Logical Decoding](https://thinhdanggroup.github.io/postgres-as-a-message-bus/) _2025-11-25 · Thinh Dang · ThinhDA_ You’ve got a small-ish system: a monolith plus a couple of background workers, maybe one or two sidecar services. ## [Kokoro TTS and Abogen on Windows](https://myByways.com/blog/kokoro-tts-and-abogen-on-windows/) _2025-08-31 · myByways_ In my last post, I described trying out Kokoro text-to-speech (TTS) model via Kokoro-FastAPI web UI in a macOS (native) container . Here, I install Kokoro-TTS and Abogen on Windows, to take advantage of my Nvidia GPU. ## [Running Kokoro TTS via macOS Containerisation Framework](https://myByways.com/blog/running-kokoro-tts-via-macos-containerisation-framework/) _2025-08-17 · myByways_ A short 2-in-1 post of two things I’ve been meaning to try out on macOS - first, to try the new macOS Container framework on macOS 15.5… and second, to spin up Kokoro Text-to-Speech (TTS) in a container. ## [Music Streaming Server on DietPi](https://myByways.com/blog/music-streaming-server-on-dietpi/) _2025-08-10 · myByways_ Onward: How I setup my DietPi SBC as a local music streaming server. I use Navidrome and OwnTone . ## [AdGuard Home on DietPi](https://myByways.com/blog/adguard-home-on-dietpi/) _2025-08-09 · myByways_ Previously, I documented my Orange Pi Zero 3 setup with DietPi . Here is how I setup AdGuard Home using the DietPi installer. ## [Orange Pi Zero 3 SBC with DietPi](https://myByways.com/blog/orange-pi-zero-3-sbc-with-dietpi/) _2025-08-08 · myByways_ I recently wanted to upgrade my Raspberry Pi, and I setted on an Orange Pi Zero 3 Single Board Computer (SBC). Here is how I set it up. ## [How to print ABS/ASA with a Prusa Core One](https://blog.cryptomilk.org/2025/07/28/how-to-print-abs-asa-with-a-prusa-core-one/) _2025-07-28 · Andreas Schneider · Andreas Schneider_ I own a Prusa Core One. Lately I had to print several things for my car (Camper Van) in ASA. If you wonder about the reason, it is ASA is heat resistant and temperatures can go quite high in a car. ASA is really hard to print successfully. The reason is that it retracts when it cools. If you have an enclosed printer, you normally ## [LC\_TIME=C.ISO8601](https://blog.cryptomilk.org/2025/07/16/lc_timec-iso8601/) _2025-07-16 · Andreas Schneider · Andreas Schneider_ My workstations and notebooks normally are in English which is not my native language. For currency etc. I have set it to de\_DE. However the date I want in ISO8601 24h format. However this is not supported by default. Here is how to get it: First you need to install the glibc locale source package. Now we need to create a complete new locale, even