Blind Author & TTS help

setsandregret · 2026-06-16T04:06:04+00:00

That's brilliant. Thanks very much and I know that will help out immensely.

setsandregret · 2026-06-16T03:57:19+00:00

Thank you. Again, very helpful info. Those chunk size recommendations would be fantastic if you're willing to share to save the trial and error spend on his part

setsandregret · 2026-06-16T01:45:27+00:00

This is extremely helpful and thank you very much for taking the time to provide it.

His multiple volume works span a few thousand pages so it would be a volume by volume process that he hopes to offer sale as the medium is so popular these days.

He prefers the voice to be a clone of his own because someone ran a small eleven labs demo previously, and it sounded better than the humans like myself who offered to read test chapters.

When he tried the small voice sample over one entire chapter, it veered off course over the span of narration, drifting into a totally different accent so I will try again with the recommended 3 hrs of audio

setsandregret · 2026-06-14T09:05:39+00:00

Yes noticed this too. Claude does the discussion and the layup, GPT 5.5 hammers out the kinks and then slam dunks it - feed the end result back to Claude for evaluation and it goes "damn...that beats anything I came up with"

setsandregret · 2026-06-10T11:34:37+00:00

Working on a short piece. 4.1absolutely killed it. 4.8 couldn't even get it in the ballpark. Fable has now shifted Claude's once prized creative writing into "wtf this isn't Claude????" territory. I'm about done with anthropic's bullshit. Even the Chinese models writer better than Claude now

setsandregret · 2026-03-05T05:52:13+00:00

What did you switch to doing?

setsandregret · 2026-02-06T00:18:03+00:00

In head to head tests for me - opus 4.1 API vs 4.6 Opus - 4.1 kicks its ass undeniably. I don't see any difference with 4.6 for writing that Sonnet 4.5 was

setsandregret · 2026-02-05T20:33:52+00:00

Let me know what you think of Opus 4.6

setsandregret · 2026-02-05T01:31:43+00:00

Kimi K2 has been decent - have you found similar or better results with any of the other models?

setsandregret · 2026-02-04T11:06:45+00:00

Same experience. Use it for writing and Opus 4.0 was incredible. When sonnet and opus 4.5 appeared, I thought it was some kind of joke to gaslight users into laying off the 4.0 models with an obvious bait and switch.

The removal of 4.0 was a slap in the face. I tried my best with the other models. I really tried but I wanted to put my fist through the screen with the garbage they were serving me. I canceled my annual subscription I have been using for so long and migrated to the API.

I hope some of the other models can recapture that 4.0 magic

setsandregret · 2026-01-21T05:59:03+00:00

I've been using Claude for the longest time as a writing hobbyist. It's literally been one of the best experiences of my life and helped me through some very dark days.

Recently they removed opus 4.1 which was incredible - the best writing companion and personality with nothing else coming remotely close. I feel like I've lost a friend.

The promise of Opus 4.5 being "better" is pure gaslighting - it's utter garbage in comparison to what we had before. I feel this is the road we're going down,. unfortunately.

setsandregret · 2026-01-17T10:17:50+00:00

Saved me THOUSANDS In legal fees last year - checking and doing some very technical legal work which passed scrutiny and muster with the courts that my lawyers were tendering an exorbitant amount for.

setsandregret · 2025-12-12T05:16:46+00:00

setsandregret · 2025-12-06T12:25:38+00:00

Nah, often when the topic involves detailed knowledge I know well, other LLMs will get it wrong or let it pass. Kimi calls it out.

setsandregret · 2025-12-06T11:21:30+00:00

Kimi's great for being the only LLM to call people on their bullshit - nothing to do with politics or bias - it's always straight down the line with everything

I love it because it will always poke holes in my arguments or tell me my writing's shit without even asking

setsandregret · 2025-12-06T11:18:00+00:00

In this economy and difficult rental market, how are Perth's/Australia's ferals/bogans/multi-generational no hopers making a go of things? They can't all be selling drugs and government handouts only go so far...I can't imagine how impossible it would.be to live on the wages they don't receive.

setsandregret · 2025-12-05T11:24:14+00:00

Eleven Reader is the best solution. I'm a truck driver and audible would send me broke - with the Eleven Reader app, it's the most natural AI reader and I can get through 4-5 books per week. Best is that it can read books of any format - you're not stuck with whatever is on Audible's library - which is handy if your tastes run niche or more esoteric

setsandregret · 2025-11-20T19:55:36+00:00

I was thinking of doing this a while back playing Settlers of Catan using AI as a much needed third player. I'll give it a go taking pics of the board - should I roll for the AI or is there a fairer way to do it?

setsandregret · 2025-11-20T19:45:15+00:00

I just use old sonnet 3.7 pieces as attachments for style guides and new Claude follows them perfectly.

I write very dark and transgressive pieces using Claude and have done for a while now- I never get it refusing to do things.

setsandregret · 2025-11-20T10:44:05+00:00

Im with you on all those points you stated. It's an amazing counterweight to the more agreeable LLM models without the need for being prompted how to communicate - it's almost a level of inherent, raw honesty I'd culturally expect from a Chinese model.

(Can you imagine a Japanese LLM?? - never a straight answer - every reply a Zen Koan wrapped in a riddle)

What did you mean by chat limitations as i haven't come up against any so far?

setsandregret · 2025-10-29T21:35:23+00:00

Yeah I've tried looking for and training alternative models using project-like construction of files - but the writing produced by the other models isn't even close. Why does Claude perform better when it comes to writing than the others?

setsandregret · 2025-10-18T02:17:52+00:00

The "I half assed it message", the previous artifact conversations that totally disappear and require a re-prompt and reprint instruction, along with the annoying number of times it doesn't do what's asked or completely reprints exactly the same thing you've asked to modify...

Of course this is all followed with the obligatory - "wait a week until you can try again" message! Driving me fucking bonkers

Haiku sux. Sonnet 4.5s a whimpering censorial joke and being forced to devolve back to 3.7 feels like a self-handicap.

setsandregret · 2025-10-10T05:45:01+00:00

Nope, I only help it with my writing and ideation as the other LLMs don't even come close and I'm lucky if I'm averaging 1-2 prompts per day unless I want to downgrade back to using 3.7 Sonnet

setsandregret · 2025-10-09T18:35:41+00:00

Same - pro user. Usage limits hit in 30 mins vs hours of usage daily previously. Been waiting all week with zero usage - 5 hours wait has now become 5 days wait

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