This was essentially a holiday week, spent based in Morciano di Leuca, a small town at the heel of the Italian boot. This turned out to be a reasonably effective way to temper the heatwave sweeping Europe (with the ocean breeze and salt water), though it wasn’t directly planned this way. I mostly managed to wrap up some reading projects, bulk up my running volume a bit, and experiment with how LLMs have improved the text-to-speech landscape. I did also manage to make a little progress on Rheo on the 9-hour train back up on Friday (from Lecce to Reggio Emilia).