5G’s low latency, greater throughput and more consistent connections make remote driving technically viable—but is it truly the better option? While 5G can help address reliability concerns, the biggest challenge might not be the network but the human element. Could a remote driver be the weakest link in …

The Text-to-Speech (TTS) landscape is transforming rapidly. Have you explored the latest advancements?

I recently came across Kokoro, a compact yet powerful TTS model (only 82M parameters!), and I'm impressed. Its audio quality is exceptional, rivalling much larger models. Beyond quality, Kokoro is fast enough for real-time applications and can …

Ever wish you could give those annoying scammers a taste of their own medicine? O2 has found a brilliant way to do just that! Their AI chatbot, "DAIsy," poses as a sweet but slightly confused old lady, politely but effectively wasting scammers' time. It's a clever and entertaining approach to …

Ever wondered how well Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) can perform with a classic like Alice's Adventures in Wonderland? I recently used the RAG Assessment (ragas) Python module to automatically create a set of Q&A and then performance benchmark different configurations. Some of the results were surprising.

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Ever felt lost when a sommelier throws out words like "Rhubarb hangs out with cherry cider and the mellowest cinnamon" to describe a wine? ‍ Well - me too!

At the end of last week I was on a quest to bridge the gap between flowery descriptions and actual grape varieties! Inspired …

While text-to-image and text-to-text take most of the Generative AI headlines, the field of text-to-speech (TTS) continues to make steady progress. Recently, I explored the capabilities of Tortoise-TTS, an open-source framework for building high-fidelity TTS systems.

I've captured my research and experimentation in a Jupyter notebook. You can find it …

🔥 Meta's latest release, Llama 3, has delivered an impressive set of Large Language Model (LLM) benchmarks. While the 8B and 70B parameter models show impressive results against closed-source and open-source models such as Claude, Gemini and Mistral, it's interesting to compare improvements of …