Vince Picone

Software Engineer – @hume_ai | @ITP_NYU 2022

[Vince Picone @vppicone]

This is delightful.

[Timo Kuilder @timokuilder]

made some tweaks

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This shit gives me goose bumps. Embarrassing tbh.

[U.S. Graphics Company @usgraphics]

Texas Elektronikgruppe CMX-7500.
Full EFD from CS-100 Houston Mono™ specimens.

[Vince Picone @vppicone]

@benhylak lol they edited it.

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@benhylak My body can’t take another quiet disconnect.

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@bachiitter @initjean Love experimental using features in production 😩

[Vince Picone @vppicone]

This is peak

[Figs From Plums @FigsFromPlums]

BB Strata™ Pro Font

[Vince Picone @vppicone]

@cnakazawa Not another quiet disconnect 😭

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@zachkrall is this a linear subtweet.

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@KalessLW @SapphoSys https://t.co/FfZbTkxoNi

[Vince Picone @vppicone]

@tmuxvim Not everything needs to be practical. You can just build interesting things.

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"It makes the text unreadable!" Yeah we know.

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@matthewcp It’s one tap for _you_ to send the email. It takes more taps for you to type out the request to send it.

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@matthewcp Why does the thing that’s generating audio books also need to be the thing that’s sending them. This is the MCP bloat incarnate.

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@matthewcp If you have a Claude generate these, It’s a 2 button share from their app to your device. Spinning up an MCP service for that seems wild.

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@matthewcp Depends on the device. There’s a dozen ways that don’t involve spinning up a server to instruct the AI on what to do.

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@matthewcp Kindle lets you email mobi/epub files to a kindle email. I’d simply have it do that.

[Vince Picone @vppicone]

@GeoffreyHuntley Come check out NYC Resistor, it’s a hackerspace in Gowanus. We have open nights Monday’s and Thursday’s, lots of cool attendees.

[Hume AI @hume_ai]

Today we're releasing our first open source TTS model, TADA!

TADA (Text Audio Dual Alignment) is a speech-language model that generates text and audio in one synchronized stream to reduce token-level hallucinations and improve latency.

This means:
→ Zero content hallucinations across 1,000+ test samples

→ 5x faster than similar-grade LLM-based TTS

→ Fits much longer audio: 2,048 tokens cover ~700 seconds with TADA vs. ~70 seconds in conventional systems

→ Free transcript alongside audio with no added latency

[Vince Picone @vppicone]

@gerardsans It’s hilarious that this coincides with defaulting the model to moderate effort as well. Wonder how many of the issues would be avoided with high effort.

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