British Tuga

🇵🇹 On the run up to fire season Ive built a website to help people in Portugal track fires in real time (rural and urban). Also tracks how many resources are deployed. Last year the fires caused complete mayhem and wanted to see if I could build something useful. fogosagora.pt

Ai Reporter (Sofia), Attempt 3. This is just a short 25fps update to get your feedback. I think the accent is pretty much nailed for European Portuguese now (but tell me otherwise) Want to work on training the model to look at the map in different ways and have more varied facial expressions.

🇵🇹 Nowhere does sunsets like Portugal. GOATED

☀️ Boa Tarde. Good to be back from miserable England

Ok attempt 2 on the AI reporter. Still a little robotic, but I think the Portuguese accent and terminology is a bit closer to something usable long term. This is currently made using Grokbot as an overall orchestrator (reporter and director roles), which have a dedicated api connection to WXAgora.com, which then uses Microsoft Azure Pt-pt voice to text and a series of AI services that bring it all together in a final report completely automated.

Its turned out more difficult than I thought to get a convincing AI reporter with a credible Portuguese accent and vocabulary... So in the meanwhile whilst im working on that, the account will post videos with a voice over

Shhhhhh 🤫

Clearly Grok doesn't cater for Portuguese accents very well at all

Based on feedback so far I've made several technical improvements to the WXAgora AI weather presenter, to try and deliver more authentic European Portuguese delivery. Accent: Anchored speech generation to a native Lisbon broadcast accent. Pronunciation: Added phonetic rules for vowel reduction, numbers and natural speech patterns. Scripts: Separated written text from speech-optimised prompts. Language: Introduced strict European Portuguese grammar and terminology checks. Audio: Integrated a native PT-PT neural voice, synchronised with lip movements. The goal is to make "Sofia" sound like a genuine Portuguese TV weather presenter. New video tomorrow

Trialling an Ai reporter for the WXAgora account. Yes or No?

🇵🇹 Quando atravessas a Ponte Vasco da Gama em direção a Lisboa, em plena hora de ponta.

🇵🇹 I miss the time when every cab in Lisbon was a Mercedes Benz

More testing of the extreme event tracker on WXAgora this morning on the storms in the UK (example here is storm Boelo)

Coastal info and animations improved on the @WXAgora account. These visuals and data (and much much more) will be available on the main site when launched. Theres still lots of testing to do with a variety of weather but you can hopefully start to see some of the direction

🇺🇸United States 1955: 87% 2025: 56%

🍂 🇬🇧 Autumn

🇵🇹 Para os meus seguidores portugueses, acabei de ter uma ideia