May was when some crap hit the fan at WMG, and I found myself working 18 hours per day and getting very little sleep. Consequently, I didn’t read much in May. What I did read was in bits and pieces, spread out over the entire month. So I don’t have a lot to recommend here…but […]
Continue ReadingStill playing catch-up from our incredibly weird year. I’m not sure it was a bad year, because we got rid of a huge ugly problem in our lives, one we didn’t even know we had until January, and our business is thriving. Dean is healing, and we’ve made some good changes. So the year will […]
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To Get a Free AI Audio Version of this blog, click here. The initial title of this post was “Fighting The Future.” It came from a quote that I spent about a half an hour searching for. I had hastily scrawled the quote on a piece of paper while doing a dozen other things the […]
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I read a lot in March, and planned to write it all up quickly. But I had February to write up, and then some other projects hit, including a really annoying Spanish paper, and I ended up not doing much more than making lists. I loved almost everything I read, and what I didn’t love, […]
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To Get a Free AI Audio Version of this blog, click here. Here we are—the mess of the mess of the mess. Right now, we’re in one of those technological befuddling moments, where the technology is ahead of the law. What that means, exactly, is this: We’re not sure what the technology can do, so […]
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To Get a Free AI Audio Version of this blog, click here. I write better in Spanish than I speak. Much better. Some of that is because I have read Spanish with varying degrees of competency since I was eight. Many of my problems speaking the language come from either a lack of vocabulary or, […]
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Full disclaimer here: I wrote longer pieces on my Patreon page and combined them together for this post. There’s a lot of learning and dithering there, as well as a fairly mediocre audio sample that you can hear if you want to join up. I wrote those pieces in the moment, so I’m reprinting them […]
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I have finally found the time to research AI audio. Or rather, I’m finally making the time. I have ventured to this precipice before, and backed off. Now, though, I feel the need to move forward. We (me, Dean, WMG Publishing) are leaving a lot of money on the table. I haven’t been able to […]
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I’m writing this on Monday late which, here in the States, is Presidents Day, a federal holiday. I had planned to have two blog posts done by now, but I hadn’t even had a chance to start this one until a few minutes ago. Events conspired to prevent my best-laid plans. I had a severe […]
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I used to train radio news announcers. I trained them how to read live and on air, a skill I learned myself while still in college. In 2021, I took a voiceover class from an impressive-as-hell studio here in Las Vegas, with the full intention that I would somehow get my books into audio. I […]
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