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From Qwen3-TTS to Chatterbox - Finally Getting Voice Cloning Right

From Qwen3-TTS to Chatterbox - Finally Getting Voice Cloning Right

I spent weeks fighting Qwen3-TTS to get decent French voice cloning on my RTX 3090. Seed pinning, audio trimming, per-language prompts - nothing worked reliably. Then I found Chatterbox Multilingual, and everything just clicked.

Stephane Thirion

15 Mar 2026 6 min read

Setting Up Qwen3-TTS with GPU Acceleration on Ubuntu Server

Setting Up Qwen3-TTS with GPU Acceleration on Ubuntu Server

A step-by-step guide to setting up Qwen3-TTS with GPU acceleration on Ubuntu Server. Complete with FastAPI wrapper, voice cloning via x-vector embeddings, and all the troubleshooting tips I wish I had when I started.

Stephane Thirion

13 Mar 2026 4 min read

Self-Hosted Qwen3-TTS: Voice Without the Cloud

Self-Hosted Qwen3-TTS: Voice Without the Cloud

Deploy a 1.7B parameter TTS model with interesing featyures. No cloud APIs, no surprise bills, total data privacy.

Stephane Thirion

26 Feb 2026 3 min read

Model Delegation: How OpenClaw Cuts AI Costs 10x

Model Delegation: How OpenClaw Cuts AI Costs 10x

Claude is expensive. Local models are free. OpenClaw delegates text generation to Ollama while keeping Claude for coordination. Here's how.

Stephane Thirion

20 Feb 2026 3 min read

Running Fish Speech TTS on TrueNAS with GPU Acceleration

Running Fish Speech TTS on TrueNAS with GPU Acceleration

Setting up Fish Speech text-to-speech on TrueNAS SCALE with Docker and NVIDIA GPU support. Covers the gotchas I hit along the way.

Stephane Thirion

17 Feb 2026 5 min read

Why My Mac Mini M4 Outperforms Dual RTX 3090s for LLM Inference

Why My Mac Mini M4 Outperforms Dual RTX 3090s for LLM Inference

I built a dual RTX 3090 server for local LLM inference. A Mac Mini M4 turned out to be 27% faster and 22× more efficient. Here's why memory bandwidth beats raw GPU power.

Stephane Thirion

16 Feb 2026 2 min read

The State of Homelabs in 2026: Smaller, Smarter, AI-Powered

The State of Homelabs in 2026: Smaller, Smarter, AI-Powered

RAM prices hurt, power bills hurt more, and everyone wants to run local AI. The homelab of 2026 is smaller, smarter, and completely different from what we had five years ago.

Stephane Thirion

15 Feb 2026 4 min read

Installing OpenClaw: A Complete Guide from Scratch

Installing OpenClaw: A Complete Guide from Scratch

Your AI assistant doesn't have to live on someone else's servers. OpenClaw runs on your hardware, connects to Telegram/Discord/WhatsApp, and keeps your data private. Here's how to set it up.

Stephane Thirion

14 Feb 2026 5 min read

Ready to unlock the full potential of AI? A Quick Guide to Choosing the Right System

Ready to unlock the full potential of AI? A Quick Guide to Choosing the Right System

Choose the right AI system to unlock true potential. Paid tiers (like $20/month) offer advanced features for serious tasks. Open-source models provide control but require self-hosting and technical effort.

Stephane Thirion

27 Jun 2025 3 min read

Choosing Between Local AI and Cloud AI: What You Need to Know

Choosing Between Local AI and Cloud AI: What You Need to Know

Explore the pros and cons of running AI locally versus in the cloud. Discover when to use edge AI, when to rely on cloud platforms, and how hybrid architectures combine the best of both.

Stephane Thirion

18 Jun 2025 3 min read

NVIDIA GTC Paris 2025: Europe’s AI Launchpad

NVIDIA GTC Paris 2025: Europe’s AI Launchpad

GTC Paris 2025 highlighted NVIDIA's end-to-end AI stack: Blackwell GPU deployment, AI-Q Blueprint agents, and sovereign infrastructure scaling across Europe. As enterprise adoption grows, open-source frameworks like LangChain and AutoGen offer modular, hardware-agnostic alternatives.

Stephane Thirion

11 Jun 2025 4 min read

From virtual desktops to virtual minds: My AI focus explained

From virtual desktops to virtual minds: My AI focus explained

Over the last two years, I’ve made a conscious decision to shift a significant part of my focus toward Artificial Intelligence. This wasn’t a trend-chasing move. It was

Stephane Thirion

10 Jun 2025 2 min read

Event Recap – EUC Tech Denmark 2025 in Billund 🇩🇰

Event Recap – EUC Tech Denmark 2025 in Billund 🇩🇰

For EUC practitioners, architects, and leaders, the call to action is unmistakable: adapt now. Whether it’s embracing cloud-first models, reinforcing security, or designing for hybrid realities, the time to evolve is now — because the next era of EUC won’t wait.

Stephane Thirion

26 May 2025 7 min read

Homelab serie -- The software 3/3

Homelab serie -- The software 3/3

SamanthAI my artificial intelligence learning lab, all about LLMs and personnal assistant

Stephane Thirion

24 Mar 2025 3 min read

Homelab serie -- The hardware

Homelab serie -- The hardware

For as long as I can remember, I've had a homelab. Honestly, it’s been so many years now that I can hardly recall exactly when or how it all began

Stephane Thirion

15 Mar 2025 7 min read

Setting Up Ollama with Open-WebUI: A Docker Compose Guide

Setting Up Ollama with Open-WebUI: A Docker Compose Guide

In this blog post, we'll dive into setting up a powerful AI development environment using Docker Compose. The setup includes running the Ollama language model server and its corresponding web interface, Open-WebUI, both containerized for ease of use.

Stephane Thirion

24 Jan 2025 4 min read

Ollama webui installation Linux

Ollama webui installation Linux

Language processing has come a long way, thanks to the rise of large language models (LLMs). However, leveraging these advanced technologies often requires significant computational resources or reliance on cloud services.

Stephane Thirion

10 Feb 2024 3 min read

create your own AI character

create your own AI character

Let's build an AI character that will act like Samantha in the movie HER...

Stephane Thirion

25 Jan 2024 4 min read