Larnyx/Rhasspy is an excellent/fast offline text to speech program. There’s approximately 50 voice samples.

It would be trivial to turn this into an API that reads articles/posts, but it’s on Python so packaging it “directly” (there’s a docker container) is way harder than actually using it.

Beehives in the Muniellos Nature Reserve, Asturias province, Spain (© ABB Photo/Shutterstock)

Solar Impulse 2 flying over the pyramids in Giza, Egypt (© Jean Revillard/Solar Impulse2 via Getty Images)

It’s been a long-standing dream of front-end developers to have a way to apply CSS to an element based on what’s happening inside that element.

Apparently we were supposed to be entering the era of web4 right about now. “Intelligent personal agents” does sound like a nice marketing jingle. Also… I just learned that web5 is a thing?

Källö-Knippla, an island in the archipelago of Gothenburg, Sweden (© Martin Wahlborg/Getty Images)

nikitonsky: I wonder how much machine learning is needed to figure out that I probably won’t be making 2 hour walk to get to the event.

Delta Chat is the premier waiting room to be in until the big boys end their chat app/protocol wars. What does it do? It turns your email into a full blown chat application. Yes… it’s an email messenger.

I was finally able to smoothly convert my last Signal contact. To persuade others, first prioritize email communication — ruthlessly. Then say: “Who in the world wants 10+ chat apps to talk to everyone?” If there’s agreement — you win ;-)

Supports: iOS macOS Windows Linux

Freshwater plants and tetra fish, Aquário Natural, Rio Baía Bonita, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil (© Michel Roggo/Minden Pictures)