David Paquet Pitts/Radar

On My Radar – Week of March 4, 2025

Diving into document AI with Mistral OCR's text extraction API and GritQL's code search tool. Tracking emerging AI voice synthesis research that aims to make synthetic speech sound more natural. Spotted a promising TypeScript library for building interactive CLIs.

Articles

State of AI 2025: Trends and Predictions
Read Later
Where are companies in the AI dev journey?

Tools

Mistral OCR: Advanced Document Understanding API
Wow
Mistral OCR is an API for document understanding that extracts and processes text, images, tables, and equations from complex documents and PDFs, designed for integration with Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) systems.
GritQL: Declarative Code Search and Transformation Language
To Test
A query language and tool for searching, linting, and modifying source code across multiple programming languages, enabling code analysis and automated transformations.

Libs

Clack: Interactive CLI Development Library
Wow
A TypeScript library for building interactive command-line interfaces (CLIs) with pre-designed prompts and unstyled components for developers.

Research

Crossing the Uncanny Valley of Voice: Achieving Natural AI Speech Synthesis
To Test
Research article on AI voice technology that explores overcoming the uncanny valley effect in synthetic speech, focusing on developing a Conversational Speech Model (CSM) to improve naturalness and contextual appropriateness of AI-generated voices.