Teaching a Laptop to Read in My Own Voice
Chasing an ElevenLabs-quality voice clone that runs free and local — the Chatterbox fight, why token TTS improvises, and the little CPU model that finally worked.
Albert Collver
Albert Collver, Ph.D. — Lutheran theologian, podcaster, and lifelong coder since the '90s shareware era. I build free, open-source tools like CastPolish, liturgical software, and family-history projects. All local, no cloud.
The Church Year, Drawn as a Wheel
We are used to reading a calendar downward — January at the top, December at the bottom — as though the year were a ladder we climb and then step off. The church has never
The Lenten Weekdays Get Their Introits and Collects
Lutheran Lectionary v1.3.0 adds the historic introit and collect to every Lenten weekday card — 38 days of public-domain text, verified against two independent missals.
Every Day of Lent: The Historic Lenten Weekday Lectionary and the Passion History
The historic Western rite appoints a proper Mass for every weekday of Lent — a Roman inheritance Lutherans quietly kept. A new Historic Lent section in the Liturgical Calendar brings it back, with the Common Service Book's Passion History.
The Almanac: Moon Phases, the Date of Easter, and a Calculator Back to the Exodus
Calendar Explorer reborn: moon phases, the date of Easter East and West, the Passover moon back to the Exodus, U.S. civil holidays, and a tour of why reckoning Easter has been so hard since the early Church.