Observations on the world and its inhabitants
This article consolidates the full investigation into the metallic / echo‑like artefact encountered during long‑form text‑to‑speech narration in Google AI Studio, the diagnostic reasoning applied, the failed and successful mitigation attempts, and the final stable solution. This took too many hours of work. But it is now resolved after much work with three AIs. Hold ...
Despite explicit instructions, generative AI systems routinely drift into US English spelling and conventions across longer writing projects. For British-English authors who use AI assistance, this creates a persistent and time-consuming editorial burden. The key insight that resolved this was accepting that generation and linguistic compliance should be treated as separate stages. Rather than attempting ...
As some may not be aware, I’ve been developing my own software to convert text into high quality electronic speech. That development continued for several hours today. As I will remind myself – as if I need to – £490 for 1.6 hours for human narration vs AI-driven production estimated at ~£1.51 for 100 minutes ...
