Great thread, Thorsten. You are our hero! You have done so much for our group - always with humor, always with fun, always eager to learn and curious: “the ones who spread love, get love back.”
is here someone who knows speech synthesis with XTTS v2 really well?
Raunser lab
Thorsten Wagner
1/5
ALS takes a lot. But it doesn't take curiosity. A new thread: how I stay motivated – through projects that are meaningful, or simply fun 🧵
5/5
But I built it also for others. And maybe that's enough.
Building it felt like agency. Like pushing back. That's what I'm looking for in every project I'll share here.
More to come.
🫁 Had my lung capacity measured recently.
Nurse asks with concern: "Have you started smoking?"
Me: "No, but I recently started smoking crack."
Dead silence. Pen hovering mid-air. Pure confusion.
She did not put that in my chart. 💀
4/5
Here's the honest part: I barely used it myself.
I'm part of a clinical trial. The measurements came constantly. At some point, all that tracking just pulled me down. Numbers that remind you, over and over, what you're losing.
