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.
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Stable beats fast: the Apple-GPU crash that taught CastPolish to use the CPU
A 2.5-hour transcription crashed on Apple's GPU mid-run. Here's the uncatchable Metal error, the one-setting fix, and a chart of where the time actually goes.
CastPolish v1.7.0: Polished PDF and Word Documents, Automatically
Every episode now produces a ready-to-read PDF and an editable Word document — summary, chapters, and transcript included. No cloud, no copy-paste.
CastPolish v1.4 — Quality Presets, Vocabulary Hints, and the Bug That Hid Inside a Fix
CastPolish v1.4 is the biggest update since launch. It adds one-click quality presets, a vocabulary hints field that dramatically improves how Whisper handles names and domain terms, and the new large-
CastPolish v1.3 — AI Noise Reduction, In-App Installer, and Processing Logs
v1.3 brings DeepFilterNet AI noise reduction, in-app install/update buttons, a double-click macOS installer, and a processing log file saved with every job.