>Yup, it's absolutely not his voice.

However it does seem to copy the the way he "lisps" his S's. I am not sure that is common 'generic-sounding "podcast guy" voice'.

He almost certainly doesn't "lisp" his S's if you heard him in real life, but says them perfectly normally.

What you're hearing is the way microphones deal with the hissing of an "s", same as they struggle with plosives like "p", from the whoosh of air. It's an artifact of microphones close to the mouth, so it makes sense that Google replicates it.

You can use physical pop filters or digital audio filters to reduce the effect, but podcasters don't usually use the physical ones, and the level of audio processing podcasters do really depends on their level of expertise and how much they even care.

When I was university, I got heavy into spoken word poetry and making hip hop. Personal Journals by Sage Francis had become a huge part of my life and rather than focus on school like a mature person I thought I’d make my own album. It turns out I have a profound lack of talent, but I got a lot of experience with a microphone.

To me that ‘s’ sound reminds me of the sibilance a Shure SM58 picks up without a pop filter. I hear a different side of the same idea on ‘p’ and ‘b’ as well.

I had a speech impediment as a youngster and the sound got in my head. Now I hear it on podcasts.

I'm glad this comment was here, it was the first thing I latched on to that seemed very specific to this person (or at least uncommon amongst general "podcast guys").

In particular, check out the pronunciation of the trailing S is the word "this" at 28 seconds in the clip of Davide Greene compared to 24 seconds in the Notebook LM clip. Really seemed uncannily similar to me.

Well, it does help if you expect sight impaired people with software to find the site useful.

That's why I said setting the right attributes. You can make a fully featured accessible website using only divs.

>Might be worth trying a fresh OS install?

Very "Windows-y", no?

Yup. That's where macOS is now.

It really isn’t like that for me though. The bugs are consistently there regardless of how old the OS install is. I don’t get more when I haven’t done a fresh install in a couple years.

Haven't you heard the good news? Rust is life .. Rust is love .. Rust is all! only partially being sarcastic here, considering how it is glazed and championed.

>What's the plan to avoid a Bluesky-like bubble from forming around Vouch projects?

Perhaps that is the plan?

Are you including the wars and operations that we supported in the shadows to shore up that capitalism?

I would be happy with an openweight 3 month old Claude

DeepSeek 3.2 is frankly fairly close to that. GLM 4.7 as well. They're basically around Sonnet 4 level.

It really is the best way to incentivize politeness!

I have noticed that Antigravity is lightening fast, wonder what magic they are using?

This is very calming for some reason.