June 18, 2026 Your Voice Clone Is Only as Good as the Reference Clip

🎬 Also available as a blog walkthrough video with narrated diagrams. TL;DR: A voice clone inherits the cadence, pitch, and timbre of its reference clip, so the single biggest lever on clone quality is…

June 10, 2026 From a Generic Voice to My Own: Self-Hosting a TTS Model on Amazon SageMaker

TL;DR: Last time, the demo video for my agentic-payments post was narrated by Amazon Polly: a clean, managed, recognizably synthetic voice. This time the same demo is narrated in my own voice, cloned …

March 16, 2026 Your AI Models Have an Expiry Date — A Practical Guide to Model Lifecycle Management

Introduction — The Promise I Made In my previous article [1], I explored the maintenance trap in IT — how software systems are more like plants than stones, requiring constant care. I ended with a cli…