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Deepgram Releases Text-to-Speech in Spanish

Text-to-speech “AI” should be a useful tool for many. I’ve only just heard about Deepgram and posted a few pieces of news (you can search on the site). Of course, most of the world does not speak English, so these tools are beginning to be rolled out in other...

Podcast–Interview with Travis Cox

I seldom interview people for my podcast Gary on Manufacturing. In this case, I had an opportunity to talk with Travis Cox, Inductive Automation's Chief Technology Evangelist about the upcoming Ignition Community Conference as well as the upcoming release of Ignition...

Health Public Service Announcement

I am willing to pay for services, especially health and nutrition, that provide valuable information. Examine.com is one. Their latest newsletter shatters some current myths referring to actual research.  Here’s a teaser: Have you heard about granulated beet...

AI and Zuck

No marketing person exists today who can write a news release without a mention of AI. I keep expecting an AI-enabled terminal block. “Now, your electrician will never put the wrong wire in our terminal block thanks to AI…” No CEO can announce corporate strategy...

Hans Beckhoff Receives the Rudolf Diesel Medal

I rarely report on personnel news or even awards. In this case, Hans Beckhoff was awarded a prestigious award in Germany. I have met and talked with him in the past in Verl. He and James Truchard, co-founder of National Instruments, comprise two of the outstanding...

Constraints Are Required For Creativity

Poets across centuries and cultures have developed structures for their poems. Haiku, ballad, sonnet. Poets especially in the 1950s and 1960s explored something called free verse—that is, no outside structure. The teacher of poetry writing at university explained how...

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