Artificial Intelligence

What Automatic AI Voice Quality Scores Actually Measure (And When to Ignore Them)

Two tools exist to score AI-generated speech automatically, without a human ever listening: UTMOS and NISQA-TTS, both “no-reference” quality predictors that output a 1-5 score. We ran them against real human listening across two separate tests, and found something worth knowing before you trust either one to pick a text-to-speech provider: they don’t always agree […]

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What Actually Makes an AI Portrait Look Real: A Small Parameter Study

We ran a small, controlled set of tests on fal.ai’s FLUX.2 model to see which generation settings actually change how realistic an AI portrait looks — and which ones are mostly noise. This isn’t a definitive study; it’s four isolated comparisons, each with the same subject and seed, changing exactly one thing at a time.

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