Making ASR Accessible: Introducing WhisperX Studio
WhisperX Studio is a simple, bring-your-own-key web UI that makes high-quality ASR practical without the CLI tax—powered by Replicate and designed to fit real creator workflows.
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RSS feedMaking Text to Speech Usable: Introducing Valeon TTS Studio
A local-first, bring-your-own-key wrapper around the OpenAI TTS API that turns a script-based pipeline into a daily-usable studio—open source, auditable, and easy to self-host.
I use arch, btw
Returning to Arch Linux becomes a reminder that good systems don’t shout: they simplify, sharpen, and get out of the way. Through that lens, this post reflects on resisting feature-bloat, and shares quiet quality-of-life updates to Valeon and GigFin.
SFSayed Hamid Fatimi5 min readIncome in Motion: Introducing GigFin
An introduction to GigFin, a free and open source income tracking app built for gig workers navigating multiple platforms and seeking clearer insight into their earnings.
Valeon: Listening in Motion
A behind-the-scenes tour of Valeon’s new audio and math pipeline—OpenAI TTS, MathJax + Speech Rule Engine, and MFA-powered word-level highlighting—focused on making reading and listening feel more like a living companion than a static archive.
SFSayed Hamid Fatimi9 min readValeon: A New Name, A Larger We
The Contemplative Path is now Valeon—a rebrand aligned with strength, clarity, and long-horizon, systems-level thinking. We’re opening submissions, rolling out improved author profile pages, and continuing to ship reader- and contributor-friendly improvements across the stack.
SFSayed Hamid Fatimi3 min readA New Beginning—with Speed Bumps
A quick tour of recent upgrades: Vercel-powered builds, end-to-end image optimization, clean print styles, a Buttondown newsletter, an OpenDyslexic reading option, saner taxonomies, an Obsidian+Git authoring flow, open-sourced Markdown posts, and a new OpenAI-TTS audio pipeline with podcast RSS.
SFSayed Hamid Fatimi4 min readTo a New Beginning
Six days off, a fresh Astro build, and a clean slate for writing: better theming and layout control, first-class LaTeX, and the freedom to ship my own features—because I thought I could code this better myself, and I did.