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  "title": "While my guitar gently speaks — Todd Fisher, Philo Ventures",
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    "The live demo remained choppy and hit several failures. Silence-based word splitting is unreliable, and higher-quality pitch-shifted singing was too computationally heavy to generate live."
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  "published_at": "2026-08-18T15:30:23.000Z",
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