Voice Cloning for Communication Aids Using XTTS v2

The idea for this project appeared to me based on my personal experience communicating with non-verbal individuals. Generally communication aids (AAC devices and apps) for these persons typically rely on generic, robotic voices that sound nothing like the person using them. If that person has existing voice recordings, even short ones from a phone or messaging app, in an age of AI/ML, it is now possible to clone their voice and use it as a personalised text-to-speech system....

April 18, 2026 · 7 min

Telegram Bot for ChatGPT and other OpenAI models

I’m sure that by now many of you have played around with the ChatGPT model by OpenAI. If not, you should definitely try it out! You can interact with the model via your web browser, but it’s more enjoyable to experiment and create something yourself. Hence, I decided to code a Telegram bot that connects to the OpenAI API. The main features of the bot include: Using the ChatGPT model with the /chat command....

April 12, 2023 · 2 min

About bitcoin mining

With all the hype around blockchain, cryptocurrencies, NFTs etc, you probably hear a lot about mining - in terms of how profitable this is, or how miners compete with each other to earn bitcoin (or any other crypto where proof-of-work concept is used). But have you ever wondered what is mining process exactly? Further on I will use the example of crypto pioneer - Bitcoin. First allow me to quote a definition of bitcoin mining from www....

October 18, 2022 · 9 min · Evgeni Semenov