Ominous Industries

Though this may be a bit embarrassing to admit considering that my current focus revolves around conversing with AI, I have not actually used any of the voice functionality that ChatGPT has integrated. I never bothered to check if I...

Truth be told, I don't pay much attention to the rumor mill, so my first real look into the new model(s) of OpenAI, dubbed OpenAI o1, was following the email I received today alerting me of their introduction. The email...

If you would like to experience chatting with the R1 in person and are local to the Boston, MA area, you can come to the 2024 Massrobotics Block Party on Saturday, September 28th from 11 am-4 pm where I will...

Ever since I tested the vision capabilities of GPT-4o, I have been passively thinking of ways to integrate it with my Ominous Industries R1 Social Robot, which I sell for $199. A couple of weeks ago, I had the idea...

With today's release of the Claude 3.5 Sonnet model from Anthropic, I wanted to find a way to test it that wasn't the generic "use in web interface" style of test. To do this, I decided to use the Ominous...

I was recently reading the very interesting Localllama subreddit and came across a thread asking about offline TTS solutions. I have had some experience with a few different offline TTS solutions, such as Piper, but one of the responses to...