21 Unknown

Okay, so we're finally on our way on the new video. After several false starts (not uncommon), I have some ideas. A few someones commented / suggested they liked instructions in their videos, and so do I. I really think that he's with the "yes" mind, so I'm working on a bit of fractionalization through instructions, a little over saturation, more than 7 ideas at once, and hoping to slip things in, lol.

I had to slip across state lines to take care of some distant family matters, which had me anxious until we were there and taking care of business, but now most of my stress is behind me. I have one little thing coming up, but I'm not too worried about it.

That puts me in the right frame of mind to create! 

And for the last few days I've been fighting with Azure TTS, and frankly, I've given up on it. They moved their "speech studio" behind a paywall, but offered a  free service subscription, so I fought through the deep, complex microsoft gibberish to get to the TTS studio, only to find it didn't like Firefox, so I switched to Edge and now doesn't show the "resource" I built and wants me to start over and sign up with a "Free Azure Account", only when I do, it just sends me back to the point where I'm signed in.

I give up. Azure had some great TTS, but it's just too difficult to get to--unless I want a paid subscription, and from what I see, it's just too complex for me to want to do that. I'm still on the look out for good Text to Speech places (that are free or mostly free), so we'll see.

Azure was the one TTS that had a great "whisper" effect to some of their voices, too. So frustrating.

On the other hand, I've been having fun with some AI image creation. Some of it is creepy (uncanny valley), but some of it is really good.

I don't know what the theme of the 21st video will be, but I'm sure it will develop.

Stay tuned!