Category: AI

I tried using cursor-ai for some time, basically for HTML, CSS, a bit of vanilla JavaScript, and Tailwind, not bad at all with the above, but later, after two weeks, the limit became unusable, turns out the “Free” comes with a 2 week free trial

Without it, you are switched from Claude to “Cursor-small” in the CTRL+L menu, and the autocomplete stops working

In any case, I think subscribing to cursor-ai is a good idea, the time it saves you writing things that are not core to your work is well worth it, but I wanted to experiment with something new, so….

Cursor-AI is basically a modified VS Code, and since Claude 3.5 Sonnet seems to be my favorite coding AI, i researched a bit and found that there is a plugin for VS-Code that does the same if I subscribe to Anthropic API !

So, after getting my API key from anthropic (the people behind Claude), all i needed to do was install a plugin (Tried more than one plugin, CodeGPT, and Cline by Saoud Rizwan), once installed, I need to enter my API key into the settings, and that is it.

Cline suits my needs better than CodeGPT for the time being, but i did not use them extensively yet, so it is too early to declare a winner

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Local

• OpenAI Whisper: https://github.com/openai/whisper
• openAI Whisper implementation in C++: https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp – Works on CPU or GPU !
• OpenAI Faster Whisper: https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper Like the one above, but 5X faster ! CPU and GPU

Online

• Turboscribe: https://turboscribe.ai
  Tried to feed it a file with 2 people, one speaking with a Jordanian accent, and another with a Saudi accent, the results were 8/10, the system seems to allow 3 files 30 minutes each for free users.

Text To Speech

Local

Tortoise and Bark for Voice Synthesis

So, I will start by dropping a few keywords here, and what they are about, that will probably help you start, I am compiling this as a guideline on where to start

• VQGAN (Vector Quantized Generative Adversarial Network / neural network) : The software that generates the image
• CLIP (Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training / neural network) : Software to influence a generated image based on input text (User prompt)
• VQGAN+CLIP : Two neural network pieces of software that work in tandem.
• CLIP-Guided-Diffusion: A technique for doing text-to-image synthesis cheaply using pre-trained CLIP and diffusion models.
• Google colab notebook: A tool made by google where you can run python code and utilize google’s GPUs, both paid and free exist