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DIY Audiobooks with make-audiobook

Tue, 03 Feb 2026 14:28:52 +0000

For six months in 2022, I stared at a hospital ceiling. Paralysed from the neck down, audiobooks weren't a luxury—they were my lifeline to the outside world.

That experience taught me something important: access to audio content shouldn't depend on whether a publisher has bothered to record it, whether you can afford the audiobook price, or whether you're willing to hand your reading habits to a cloud service.

The Problem

Most ebook-to-audio tools I found fell into three camps: cloud-based services that upload your books to someone else's servers, complex setups requiring GPU clusters and Python dependency hell, or clunky commercial software with subscription fees.

AI and Learning: From Panic to Potential

Fri, 26 Dec 2025 19:00:00 +0000

Schools rushed to ban AI tools like ChatGPT, but the real opportunity lies in reimagining education for learners of all abilities.

This is a companion piece to my article on what you need to understand about AI. Here I look at how schools and universities have responded to generative AI, and what they might be missing.

The panic

When ChatGPT landed in November 2022, schools lost their minds. Within weeks, New York City—the largest school district in the United States—banned it from all school devices and networks. A spokesperson declared it "does not build critical-thinking and problem-solving skills."¹

AI and Accessibility

Fri, 26 Dec 2025 15:00:00 +0000

This is a companion piece to my article on what you need to understand about AI. Here I focus on what AI means for accessibility—a subject I have a personal stake in.

A personal stake

I have quadriplegia — well, incomplete quadriplegia to be precise. In July 2022 an injury rendered me paralysed, with no movement or sensation below the neck. For six months I stared at a hospital ceiling immobilized. The doctors were telling my family to lower our expectations, that I would need 24-hour care for the rest of my life.

Watch Youtube with Auto-Translated Captions

Sun, 08 Jun 2025 22:13:49 +0100

Instructions for Subtitles in English

How to get English (or any other language!) subtitles auto-generated while watching a video in another language

On the Youtube video you'll see a little button that looks like a "gear" with cogs, something you might see if you opened up an old wrist watch :)

Click this, then choose Subtitles:

Here you can see three options, click Auto-Translate:

Now you will have to scroll down to find English … or whatever your preferred language is! Danish is in there, even Irish!