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founding

Thank you for such a thorough research of the most important topic of our time. People in "camp number 2" (people who looked at the evidence and said it's too fantastical) - I want to "shake" you and wake you up. You are literally sinking us into the technocratic hell designed by those who expected this reaction from you.

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founding

Great article. Have you thought about providing audio versions of longer articles like this one? I don't mean using TTS necessarily, but just you or someone else reading it. Just an idea for people who work and listen to podcasts at same time or for older people with deteriorating eyesight.

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That's a great idea! In principle, I am in favour, although there are only so many hours in the day....

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founding

Actually I've read that text-to-voice software is improving rapidly and some "robo-narrators" are apparently hard to distinguish from humans.

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Great! Can you recommend any specific products?

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founding

This is most comprehensive site I've found so far https://www.techradar.com/best/best-text-to-speech-software I'm checking with a few software analysists (on substack). I'll get back to you.

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I have uploaded TTS audio versions of the four transhumanism articles. Dependent on what readers think, I may consider using TTS on other articles.

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founding

I'm just listening to the 1st transhumanist article. It sounds very natural. I see I can't slow it down, only speed it up.

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Thanks. I spent quite a bit of time looking into the ones on TechRadar, but I found them all to be quite costly and/or difficult to set up. I just need a simple-to-use, reasonably priced service where I paste in text and it gives me back a downloadable audio file. This seems harder than expected to find!

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founding

THANK YOU: I just need to say, Mr. Hughes, that I’m on my third go-round with the reading of your book, WALL STREET, The NAZIS and the Crimes of the Deep State and I just can’t seem get enough. Plus, the reference pages at the end— boy, it’s just wonderful stuff, entirely absorbing. I can’t wait to buy your next book. Everything you write, everything you say is relevant. You have a profound ability to discern what matters, what’s worth writing about.

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Why, thank you very much! I take great encouragement from words such as these - you spur me on to keep writing!

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