March 8, 2026
By: Stephen Toback
Twenty years ago, if I wanted to set up a transcription service, I’d be knee-deep in UNIX shell scripts on a Silicon Graphics workstation, likely manually compiling libraries for hours. Today, I did it in under 30 minutes using Claude...
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March 3, 2026
By: Stephen Toback
We've had conversations for sometime to see if we should have a "Duke voice" to use for official voice over production using tools like Elevenlabs. There are still many discussions to have if this is in fact something we should...
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February 25, 2026
By: Stephen Toback
We have some VIPs coming to visit Duke's Innovation Co-Lab and while at a meeting this morning, I noticed there wasn't some really compelling content on the digital signs. I found out the visit was tomorrow, so I asked the...
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November 26, 2025
By: Stephen Toback
What started as a test prompt from Nick Janes to help doing some Nano Banana Pro 3 testing, ended up with an interesting video. You can read more information about how I used reference videos to create a series of...
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July 11, 2025
By: Stephen Toback
I'm getting deep into Eleven Labs work so I thought I'd share my musings. If you remember a while back, I wrote a script to automate sending a column of text to Eleven Labs and have it generate audio files...
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July 3, 2025
By: Stephen Toback
We had a problem uploading our first test of Elevenlabs new engine, version 3. There was clicking in the sample. I tried, but failed to contact Elevenlabs support (which has been an ongoing issue that I need to resolve. I...
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December 16, 2024
By: Stephen Toback
We recently hosted Panopto on site to do an interview. Unfortunately the interviewer's mic was too hot and was significantly clipped. This made it a bit uncomfortable for their audience. I remember that Adobe Audition used to have a DeClipper...
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October 23, 2024
By: Stephen Toback
Extraordinary technology. Workflow and pricing model still need work. I'm working with a researcher who has 1,000 videos in Urdu that he wants dubbed into English. I expected that ElevenLabs would be the right tool. In testing, it did a...
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August 18, 2023
By: Scott C Frey
David Spearman and David Maksa with QSC stopped by for the session of the DDMC and showed us everything that they have to offer. The Q-SYS Ecosystem is a scalable and flexible software-based platform built around an open IT-friendly ecosystem....
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April 11, 2023
By: Scott C Frey
The use of technology in the classroom is becoming increasingly prevalent in today's educational landscape. As schools and universities adopt new and innovative solutions to enhance the learning experience for students, one area of focus has been improving the quality...
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