I wouldn't hold my breath for text to speech becomming way better the comming years. I had text to speach on my Amiga in 1987. And that MacOS version you demonstrated is only like 50% better than what i had in the 80s.
The macOS ‘say’ command can actually produce extremely good quality TTS. There’s a hidden menu somewhere in System Preferences where you can download higher quality voices, far better than the example shown in the video (some are even better than the native Siri voice, IMO)
Browsershot seems a bit heavy because it involves Node.js. I'd use chrome-php instead. (and keep the chromium instance open at all time for speed, connect via dev tools URI)
You probably tested other PHP features as well, but enums and attributes were released in November 2021 while ChatGPT's training data is older. In fact, if you ask ChatGPT about new features of PHP 8.1 it will just say "PHP 8.1 is not released yet and there is no official information available about its new features". So when you told it to write an essay about enums in PHP, it made a lot of assumptions (or just made everything up). I wonder if this would work better with older PHP features.
Interesting idea.
Will see what will be after a year.
I wouldn't hold my breath for text to speech becomming way better the comming years. I had text to speach on my Amiga in 1987. And that MacOS version you demonstrated is only like 50% better than what i had in the 80s.
Very cool. You may also use the ffmpeg command to generate a screenshot: ffmpeg -ss 00:00:00 -i input_video.mp4 -vframes 1 -q:v 2 output_image.jpg
Great content Brendt. I am really enjoying your newsletter and your videos.
The macOS ‘say’ command can actually produce extremely good quality TTS. There’s a hidden menu somewhere in System Preferences where you can download higher quality voices, far better than the example shown in the video (some are even better than the native Siri voice, IMO)
And where do I find that menu?? :D
Edit: I found it, it's pretty good quality indeed!
Browsershot seems a bit heavy because it involves Node.js. I'd use chrome-php instead. (and keep the chromium instance open at all time for speed, connect via dev tools URI)
Nice, didn't know about that one!
You probably tested other PHP features as well, but enums and attributes were released in November 2021 while ChatGPT's training data is older. In fact, if you ask ChatGPT about new features of PHP 8.1 it will just say "PHP 8.1 is not released yet and there is no official information available about its new features". So when you told it to write an essay about enums in PHP, it made a lot of assumptions (or just made everything up). I wonder if this would work better with older PHP features.
Great