Ominous Industries
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ChatGPT Advanced Voice Test: Gimmick or Game-Changing Tool
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...
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Bringing Someone Back with AI and Robotics
Last May, I had the idea to digitally bring back the memory of a lost loved one, in this case, my late grandfather. I went through with it using a prototype of the Ominous Industries R1 robot, which I sell...
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Testing locally run AI portrait animation
The thing I most look forward to in the AI space is being able to generate videos locally, uncensored, and free of subscriptions or content filters. Things like SORA and the up-and-coming Luma Dream Machine are a cool display of...
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Testing MetaVoice 1B - Local TTS & Voice Cloning
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...