I've found some strange guardrails with the Foundation models. Like blocking describing of any photo with a single woman in it. It does this relatively consistently but with a different subset every time. Like out of 10 photos in the set, it's skips 6 then the next run, it skips 3. Have you seen guardrail issues like this?

I switched to Gemma 4 instead.

same i am using new embeddinggemma. seems far more capable than foundation models.

I built a generative UI app for Apple TV over the weekend. It lets any agent send notifications, questions and media to any of my Apple TVs. Putting it on this device would be perfect, hopefully they let developers start doing third part apps soon.

How well does it handle pronunciation, especially of things like proper nouns? This has been one of the harder parts I've found. On a financial web site I saw one example where the generated audio pronounced initiates as a noun instead of a verb. It's a subtle difference but can significantly change the meaning if worded wrong.

I was trying to use TTS to regenerate some old audiobooks and getting names pronounced correctly is pretty hard unless the model supports something like SSML.

I did something similar and just put the files on an old laptop and used Tailscale. That gives me an https URL and Apple Podcasts downloads the files fine.

This is timely! I'm trying to take control of my Echo Wall Clock which connects to an Alexa device that I want to get rid of. There's very little info on it but Claude was able to find the FCC filings and now we've got lo-res images of the circuit board. It's inspecting the test pads on the circuit board now to see if it can figure out how to replace the firmware.

I have interest in this. My Echo Wall Clock is the only reason I still have an Alexa device in my home.

If they put up a fake camera, what happens when an incident occurs and the footage is requested? Does it just become an internal secret that it’s not a real camera?

On the other hand, installing a real camera means costs associated with monitoring so you also need to convince everyone it’s worth that cost.

I think of it as a scarecrow.

For shits and giggles I had Claude build out a full voice cloning pipeline that runs completely locally on my Steam Deck. I’ve got Gemma e4b, Qwen and Chatterbox all running on the AMD.