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Bryce Belcher
@Blindy@convo.casa

Here is an introduction audio about me. Think of it as an audiobook sort of. No sugarcoating, just honest truth, and some stories. So if you just found my page, this will be useful. Made with ElevenLabs and Hokusai.

Bryce Belcher
@Blindy@convo.casa

For all of you radio hobbyists /geeks, listen up! Yeah, I'm talking to you! So lately I've been messing with this thing called FM DX Webserver. It is actually a website of list of servers you can connect to and listen to mostly FM radio, yes, analog FM radio. It is not a webSDR receiver, although it is like one in a nutshell. It also has RDS support. It's based off of an open source project on GitHub. You can host a server remotely than anybody can control the receiver and listen.
https://github.com/NoobishSVK/fm-dx-webserver
this open source repository is for those that want to start a server. The radios that are compatible are the radios that have the TEF chips like the 6686 chip, and above. I know people like @douglas2005@dragonscave.space who has the Codosen DX 286 like I do, but I'm not sure if you could actually host a server with that radio even though it has the TEF6686 chip, it probably has to be more of an advanced radio. Anyway, once you host the server you can share it to servers.fmdx.org, or if you don't want, you could just give whoever you want the link to be able to access the remote server. If you wanna access the list of servers available, here's the link for that.
https://servers.fmdx.org/
for screen reader users, when you go to the site, click on the receiver list button. Then you'll see a whole list of servers. You can navigate those by headings. When you find one, you can click on it and read all the info about it, and if you want to connect to it just hit connect, and it'll take you to the website where that server is hosted. To play audio you can hit the play/pause button. I noticed that there has been some audio issues playing on iOS devices, I'm not sure if it has anything to do with Apple's strict audio settings for the browser. But I can get audio to play on my PC just fine. To navigate frequencies just go to the spin box and go hit left or right arrow, or just type in a frequency, for example, 89.500. Some servers also have AM but mostly the servers you'll see are FM. I'll be definitely using this over the upcoming weeks, as spring has sprung, and summer will soon be upon us, and the FM band opens up a lot. But it's also cool to hear stuff from other places, it's like if I ran a server from where I am in Ohio, you could hear some Ohio stuff.

Bryce Belcher
@Blindy@convo.casa

I'm currently making a dataset of my voice so I can put it through Applio, which is like the RVC web UI. We'll see how it sounds, once I figure this program out. It's gonna run real good on this little beelink. I'm recording some phrases and stuff, and looking through my personal recordings from my Zoom essential and other folders I have.

Bryce Belcher
@Blindy@convo.casa

Here's another old video from the YouTuber Sam Da Vlogger. It's called Microsoft Sam vs. Microsoft Anna. It was released back in May 2020. So if you like TTS content, then this is for you. It's a funny one! It's funny and crazy! You can't find this one on YouTube anywhere since his account is closed and nobody has re-uploaded this one, and it's a good thing I have it.

Bryce Belcher
@Blindy@convo.casa

Here's another old video from Sam Da Vlogger. This one is his Microsoft Sam reads random windows errors, his 16th episode released in 2016. Again, another video that I'm surprised I have from his YouTube channel when he was on YouTube.

Bryce Belcher
@Blindy@convo.casa

Who remembers Sam Da Vlogger? Here's one of his videos. He made some commentary videos, but he also made text to speech content. This was either done in 2016 or 2017. He was doing a commentary on a rant on Bart Baker, back when people used to really hate him for stupid reasons. The big reason was because of the parody of trouble by Taylor Swift. I'm glad I have some of his videos, considering he's not on YouTube anymore because Sam a.k.a. Sean closed his account back in late summer 2020 because he got called out on some of the stuff he was involved with and he closed it.

Bryce Belcher
@Blindy@convo.casa

Good morning! Here's today's NotebookLM deep dive. This deep dive takes a look at the NLS eReader braille display made by HumanWare. The source for making this was the user manual. It goes over the user guide, getting started, the features, and charging instructions, just basic manual stuff that you need to know.

Bryce Belcher
@Blindy@convo.casa

For those using the sixth beta of iOS 26, do not use personal voice on voiceover. There's a serious bug where it breaks VoiceOver, and it doesn't matter the rotor voiceover language either. There will be no sound, so you'll be screwed. The only sound you might hear is an uh or something like that. The only way out of this is if you have a braille display, which I got mine to use, or you could also use the rotor characters and it could read the characters as you're swiping. But a braille display will be useful. That's what my option was to use it. Until an update gets released in the next week, don't use personal voice.

Bryce Belcher
@Blindy@convo.casa

Recently this week NotebookLM introduced a new feature where you can do video deep dives. You can still do your audio overviews. The difference is on the video overviews there's only one person talking. On the audio deep dives you still have those same two people talking like before. You'll hear the same voices as before. Here's my demonstration of the new video feature for NotebookLM. It's my document that I wrote about the radio hobby, and when I call the wild wild West of Radio. Everything was analog, and fun. And not only that, the new cool advancements.

Bryce Belcher
@Blindy@convo.casa

There's so much interesting stuff to find. Some songs have metadata on them. https://tweesecake.social/@josh/112622749645710541

Bryce Belcher
@Blindy@convo.casa

Wow, they actually sell this stuff.
HamGeek TV-TX200 VHF/UHF Analog TV Transmitter Analog TV Signal Transm https://www.hgeek.com/products/%e9%9c%80%e8%a6%81%e5%8a%a0%e4%b8%bb%e5%9b%be-hamgeek-tv-tx200-vhf-uhf-analog-tv-transmitter-analog-tv-signal-transmitter-w-antenna-supports-hd-av-input

Bryce Belcher
@Blindy@convo.casa

Here's some Columbus Ohio radio for ya. This recording was done on February 3, 2022. On that day, it was pretty snowy, and this recording was done on the evening of February 3. It was a snippet of the Mark Blazer show on 610 WTN.