Miscellany

Three Doves Productions

Miscellany is the audio edition of the notebook at news.collver.biz — short essays and explorations on technology, faith, family, and whatever else has caught my attention, each one read aloud. Some of it is about building things; some about noticing them. From the desk, and the homeserver, of Rev. Dr. Albert B. Collver III.

Episodes

  1. 3d ago

    Grace, Set Upside Down

    In 1845, a St. Louis compositor setting Der Lutheraner seated one letter upside down, and the word Gnade — grace — went out to the subscribers as Guade. Nobody caught it for 180 years. How hand-set type worked, how a turned letter happens, and how an AI correction pass that was taught to fix its own mistakes and respect everyone else's found it. From the essay at news.collver.biz.

    Grace, Set Upside Down

  2. 5d ago

    Unto Each One According to His Faith

    Where does the general confession and absolution actually come from — and is the “Declaration of Grace” a lesser gospel? From the medieval Offene Schuld through the Nürnberg controversy of 1533–1540 (including the absolution formula Luther wrote in his own hand, February 1540) to the Dresden court chapel, the Missouri Synod’s 1856 agenda, and page 203 of Lutheran Service Book. Read the essay, with full notes: news.collver.bizTypeset PDF: misc.collver.biz/unto-each-one.pdfThe Wittenberg letters, German and English: misc.collver.biz/wittenberg-opinions-parallel.pdf

    Unto Each One According to His Faith

  3. Jul 9

    Teaching a Laptop to Read in My Own Voice

    How I got an open-source model to read my drafts aloud in a passable version of my own voice — for free, on my own machine. The ElevenLabs-cost itch, the fight to fine-tune Chatterbox, why some text-to-speech recites while the rest improvises, and the little CPU model that finally worked. Read, fittingly, in that very cloned voice. Read the full post: https://news.collver.biz/teaching-a-laptop-to-read-in-my-own-voice/ Try the live demo: https://voice.collver.biz

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Miscellany is the audio edition of the notebook at news.collver.biz — short essays and explorations on technology, faith, family, and whatever else has caught my attention, each one read aloud. Some of it is about building things; some about noticing them. From the desk, and the homeserver, of Rev. Dr. Albert B. Collver III.

Information

  • Creator
    Three Doves Productions
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    3
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Albert B. Collver III
  • Show Website
    Miscellany