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Antonio Zugaldia

@zugaldia.com

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Building stuff, one thing at a time. Voice engineering at Mapbox. Former WHO and Silica Labs. Physicist. I have a bad feeling about this mission.

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Antonio Zugaldia @zugaldia.com · 11/04/2026

New Speed of Sound release is out! You can now use NVIDIA Parakeet and Canary models for on-device transcription, alongside Whisper. More models = better accuracy across languages + more offline/private options. Flathub/Snapcraft links & install instructions on www.speedofsound.io/getting-star...

NVIDIA Parakeet and Canary models now available on Speed of Sound.

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Antonio Zugaldia @zugaldia.com · 04/04/2026

Great news: My little voice typing app for Linux is now available on both Flathub and Snapcraft. Links for both here: www.speedofsound.io/getting-star...

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Antonio Zugaldia @zugaldia.com · 03/10/2025

Benevolent organizers for life.

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Antonio Zugaldia @zugaldia.com · 03/10/2025

DevFestDC is today! Find me to talk AI and @mapbox.com (and, oh yes, we're hiring).

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Antonio Zugaldia @zugaldia.com · 16/09/2025

I'm ready to throw some money at whoever is printing t-shirts with that ultrathink design.

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Antonio Zugaldia @zugaldia.com · 13/08/2025

Great advice for LLMs in particular and life in general (context: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4488...).

I've spent a lot of time trying to get LLM to generate things in a specific way, the biggest take away I have is, if you tell it "don't do xyz" it will always have in the back of its mind "do xyz" and any chance it gets it will take to "do xyz". When working on art projects, my trick is to specifically give all feedback constructively, carefully avoiding framing things in terms of the inverse or parts to remove.

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Antonio Zugaldia @zugaldia.com · 13/08/2025

DevFestDC is back! In collaboration with @developers.google.com, this year we're running a one-day event themed around generative AI and emerging technologies. More information about tickets and how to apply to speak on www.devfestdc.org

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Antonio Zugaldia @zugaldia.com · 29/07/2025

Clear your LLM context early and often. www.science.org/content/arti...

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Antonio Zugaldia @zugaldia.com · 05/07/2025

I just posted some notes on how to run this MCP with a local LLM on Linux. Let me know if you run into any issues! github.com/bilelmoussao...

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Antonio Zugaldia @zugaldia.com · 08/06/2025

I now have Copilot reviewing Claude Code PRs. What a time to be alive.

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Antonio Zugaldia @zugaldia.com · 30/05/2025

Looks like Anthropic/Claude is giving up on TTS and relying on @elevenlabs.io for their recently announced voice mode. Interestingly, no mention of STT though. Source: app.vanta.com/anthropic/tr...

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Antonio Zugaldia @zugaldia.com · 09/05/2025

I don't know why I didn't try this before, from screenshot to calendar event in 5 seconds.

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Antonio Zugaldia @zugaldia.com · 30/04/2025

MCP server idea: Every GTK/GNOME app defines Actions that are available via D-Bus (e.g. screenshot below from GNOME Maps). The MCP server would bridge tool calls with D-Bus calls to any app in the desktop (whether it was designed to be controlled by LLMs or not!).

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Antonio Zugaldia @zugaldia.com · 28/04/2025

If an image is ~258 tokens, and a token is ~0.75 words, then an image is worth 193.5 words. We've been lied to all our lives.

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Antonio Zugaldia @zugaldia.com · 15/04/2025

Going with the GSettings approach, it's simple enough and it works. (The goal was to synchronize the application and the extension state, which are two different codebases, one in Python, the other in GJS.)

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Antonio Zugaldia @zugaldia.com · 21/03/2025

Talk about beginner's luck. My first Bluesky post just got quoted in TechCrunch techcrunch.com/2025/03/21/a... and Techmeme (wow), and in @simonwillison.net's blog (double wow).

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Antonio Zugaldia @zugaldia.com · 21/03/2025

Looking at their recent Trust Center update (app.vanta.com/anthropic/tr...) looks like they're using Brave under the hood.

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