This method was inspired by Andre Louis AKA FreakyFwoof. It involves loading up pocket tts, setting the end of sentence sensitivity to max, turning input help mode on, and pressing a key. If nothing happens, press it again. I then expanded outward to see if I could discover other methods of making it go nuts.
I purchased the Loopback and Audio Hijack bundle for my mac today. I have no idea how to use these, so this is a learning opportunity. I discovered that it allows you to patch in AU effects, so I piped in Valhalla Supermassive before the recorder. It made it quite diffiicult to play, as you'll see.
This is basically an electric replacement of compressed air in a can. It has three speeds, the highest of which requires that you hold down the button to keep it going. For medium and low, just a press to start and one to stop is enough. It comes with several attachments, including one that's supposed to fit the large air inlet of an air mattress.
It is quite powerful on the highest setting. You'll actually feel it pulling back on your hand. If you stand it up on a table or desk, on the medium setting, it'll walk itself right off the edge.
It's all plastic, but it's the durable, thick kind. It feels sort of like a gun with an extended clip in it. Presumably, the battery is in the handle. It's got two buttons, one on the back and one on the front, where a trigger would be on a handgun. You long press to turn it on and off, and a tap will select modes on the back button, while the front button starts and stops as I've laid out above.
It charges via USB C, and the port is right above the power / mode change button. Changing out the attachments is simple. A quarter turn counter-clockwise to release the old one, then you just line the new one up and a quarter turn clockwise secures it. With no attachments, it's a bit too stubby to look like a gun, and it doesn't work very well either, since there's nothing to focus the air stream. The main body of the device is octagonal,, as is the form factor of the rear part of the attachments. There's a pattern of grooves in the handle for easier grip, and a vent along the bottom, presumably to keep air flow across the battery to prevent it from overheating.
OK, so after hearing this thing , I had to do something with that glorious laugh at the end. God, if I were only able to do musical things, so many ideas. Alas, I have the musical ability of a potato, so I did this instead.
The experiment is, how little actual voice data can you give one of these zero-shot tts things and have it produce something intelligible. So I only fed it the laugh, and this is the result.
I've been annoyed for a while at the lack of a 64-bit component for playing N64 ROM dumps. Well, I had a stroke of unusual brilliance and asked Gemini if it could find me one, and it did - on a Japanese wiki. So here it is.
Now that iOS 26 is a thing, it's easy to use custom files as ringtones, just invoke the share sheet and it'll be an option there. I personally use Dropbox to get the files onto my phone. Of course, android peeps have had easy access to this forever now.