September 3, 2026 The Gate That Couldn't See the Defect

TL;DR: I am building narrated demo videos for an upcoming conference, and one of them went back for rework six times. Three of my own quality checks were involved, and each failed differently. One ran…

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 built by conditioning on a reference clip, Qwen3-TTS, in my case, inherits the clip’s cadence, pitch, and timb…

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 …