kamranjon (u/kamranjon)

kamranjon commented on Voxtral Transcribe 2 mistral.ai/news/voxtral-t... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

aavci · 7 days ago

What's the cheapest device specs that this could realistically run on?

kamranjon · 7 days ago

I haven't quite figured out if the open weights they released on huggingface amount to being able to run the (realtime) model locally - i hope so though! For the larger model with diarization I don't think they open sourced anything.

kamranjon commented on Decentralizing my smartphone with single purpose devices ambertherambler.bearblog.... · Posted by u/speckx

mrweasel · 8 days ago

It's a little strange to see people scramble to replace their phone with other things. Before smart phones, or mobile phones in general, I'd carry my wallet and keys, nothing else. We can still just do that, it's fine. If you replace your phone with all this stuff anyway, I don't really see the point. Sure, bring a book if you're traveling, but we don't need to listen to music or be able to watch a movie all the time. It's okay to be bored or just observe your surroundings.

The social pressure I don't get, I think that's a made up excuse. I'm never encountered anyone say anything beyond "Oh, okay" if it comes up that I left my phone at home.

kamranjon · 8 days ago

I think it's driven from an understanding that being constantly connected is potentially unhealthy for ones mental health. Not saying that's 100% true but I think enough people feel it that they are looking for solutions in things like dumb phones, digital detox, purpose-built devices etc.

I understand your lament about people just being able to be bored, but I think this gets at something deeper, that when we aren't bored and do want to do something, we are often distracted because of the nature of smart phones.

kamranjon commented on Decentralizing my smartphone with single purpose devices ambertherambler.bearblog.... · Posted by u/speckx

j4cobgarby · 8 days ago

Which dumb phone? I would like to try similar, but there are always certain Android apps I need (banking apps like BankID, payment apps). Do you get a "pure" dumb phone and then a separate Android device for when it's required, or a dumb phone which does a little bit of Androiding?

kamranjon · 8 days ago

I got a Mudita Kompakt for similar reasons, I can sideload the few apps that I really need. The one I use the most is Kiwix, as I've downloaded the entirety of english wikipedia, so I can basically look anything up (useful when reading) without requiring an internet connection. I also have signal on there. I really like it and it's my dedicated phone now.

kamranjon commented on Decentralizing my smartphone with single purpose devices ambertherambler.bearblog.... · Posted by u/speckx

kamranjon · 8 days ago

Since switching to a dumb phone I've gone down the same path. I already was an avid photographer but I've added a typewriter and a nice pen/notepad which has gotten me writing again. I've also read more books than I've read at any other time in my life, it's really incredible how much time I was wasting.

kamranjon commented on Peerweb: Decentralized website hosting via WebTorrent peerweb.lol/... · Posted by u/dtj1123

kamranjon · 12 days ago

I think one of the values of (what appears to be) AI generated projects like this is that they can make me aware of the underlying technology that I might not have heard about - for example WebTorrent: https://webtorrent.io/faq

Pretty cool! Not sure what this offers over WebTorrent itself, but I was happy to learn about its existence.

kamranjon commented on Fedora Asahi Remix is now working on Apple M3 bsky.app/profile/did:plc:... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

kamranjon · 16 days ago

Asahi is one of the projects I support monetarily cause I really hope that one day I can run linux natively on my M4 max with GPU acceleration. They did an amazing job with M1 and M2 - great to see they are still pushing forward after the departure of Alyssa Rosenzweig, who did a lot of the work on the GPU support for those.

Edit: Here is their donation page if you're interested in chipping in as well: https://opencollective.com/asahilinux

kamranjon commented on Qwen3-TTS family is now open sourced: Voice design, clone, and generation qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3tts-... · Posted by u/Palmik

genewitch · 20 days ago

it isn't often that tehcnology gives me chills, but this did it. I've used "AI" TTS tools since 2018 or so, and i thought the stuff from two years ago was about the best we were going to get. I don't know the size of these, i scrolled to the samples. I am going to get the models set up somewhere and test them out.

Now, maybe the results were cherrypicked. i know everyone else who has released one of these cherrypicks which to publish. However, this is the first time i've considered it plausible to use AI TTS to remaster old radioplays and the like, where a section of audio is unintelligible but can be deduced from context, like a tape glitch where someone says "HEY [...]LAR!" and it's an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar...

I have dozens of hours of audio of like Bob Bailey and people of that era.

kamranjon · 20 days ago

I wonder if it was trained on anime dubs cause all of the examples I listened to sounded very similar to a miyazaki style dub.

kamranjon commented on Show HN: Sweep, Open-weights 1.5B model for next-edit autocomplete huggingface.co/sweepai/sw... · Posted by u/williamzeng0

kamranjon · 20 days ago

I read the release but didn't quite understand the difference between a next-edit model and a FIM model - does anyone have a clear explanation of when to use one over the other? I'd love if there was a sublime plugin to utilize this model and try it out, might see if I can figure that out.

kamranjon commented on The Olivetti Company abortretry.fail/p/the-oli... · Posted by u/rbanffy

kamranjon · 22 days ago

I have an Olivetti Lettera 22 typewriter and it's the perfect machine, just immaculately designed. But one thing that absolutely floors me and I have no idea how they did it - is they have infinite, programmable tab stops on a completely manual machine (no electricity). So you can set as many tab stops as you want, and then hit the tab key and it will jump between all of the stops in order. It's great for creating lists of things or for creating simple tables. How the machine is able to remember your settings, and allow you to jump between and clear you tab stops completely mechanically is just so cool to me and seems like a marvel of engineering.

kamranjon commented on Pocket TTS: A high quality TTS that gives your CPU a voice kyutai.org/blog/2026-01-1... · Posted by u/pain_perdu

phoronixrly · a month ago

I echo this. For a TTS system to be in any way useful outside the tiny population of the world that speaks exclusively English, it must be multilingual and dynamically switch between languages pretty much per word.

Cool tech demo though!

kamranjon · a month ago

That's a pretty crazy requirement for something to be "useful" especially something that runs so efficiently on cpu. Many content creators from non-english speaking countries can benefit from this type of release by translating transcripts of their content to english and then running it through a model like this to dub their videos in a language that can reach many more people.