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Welcome Back!
Not too much new in this update since we have not
been traveling recently. We have spent that time to begin a
thorough review each of the 54 tours to ensure all of the links
are active, as well as cleaning up grammatical errors. We have
nearly finished cleaning up the desktop tours and this month and
will soon commence reviewing the VR Tours. During this time
period we have also been investigating the use of AI-generated
voices. We took an audio clip of each of our voices and
used elevenlabs.io to generate a likeness of
our voices. The result is a bit unnerving. My AI voice is in the
opening splash screen of the VR Roman
Forum tour, while the
audio narration of the tour is a text to speech process
using Tracy's cloned voice. While we think the "real" voices are
better (when we are in good form), the difference is smaller
than we would have ever guessed!
The website has now passed 14,500 visitors, so it would seem
some people have found the site valuable in their trip planning,
and we hope you will too. And,
please, share this site with anyone who might have an
interest in these travel destinations
Again, here are the different sections of our webpage:
Legacy Links:
the pre-2010 web pages which have undergone rennovation,
divided into Personal
and Travel
archives. These are colored aqua
New Links:
featuring websites that were completed (or partially
completed) by 2010 but not uploaded, as well as current
travels. These are colored beige
Virtual Traveler:
takes advantage of cameras that can capture 360-degree
photos to produce immersive tours on both your desktop or
laptop, as well as via VR Tours (accessed by scanning a QR
Code) that use Google Cardboard or similar Virtual Reality
headsets (along with your smartphone) for a fully
immersive experience. These are a reddish hue
Thank you for
stopping by our little corner of the Internet. As always,
we enjoy hearing from visitors with comments or
suggestions.
Tracy and Dale
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