C-Loftus

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Accessibility APIs for AI Agents(colton.place)
1 points by C-Loftus 11mo ago|0 comments
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by C-Loftus 1y ago
I am a part of the Talon community mentioned here, use Orca, have contributed to the Rust atspi bindings and feel like I know Linux accessibility quite well. It is true to in Wayland you can write protocol extensions or custom compositors t
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by C-Loftus 1y ago
Awesome work! Often times in the TTS space, human-similarity is given way too much emphasis at the expense of hurting user access. Frankly as long as a voice is clear and you listen to it for a while, the brain filters out most quirks you w
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Show HN: Speak Chinese characters on the clipboard automatically while learning(github.com)
3 points by C-Loftus 1y ago|0 comments
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by C-Loftus 2y ago
WebGPU actually generates the speech entirely in the browser. Web Speech is great too, but less practical if the model is complicated to set up and integrate with the speech API on the host.
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by C-Loftus 2y ago
Fantastic work. My dream would be to use this for a browser audiobook generator for epubs. I made a cli audiobook generator with Piper [0] that got some traction and I wanted to port it to the browser, but there were too many issues. [1] Is
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by C-Loftus 2y ago
I don't think that is the case but I could be wrong. My eyes do not feel dry at all and drops or hot washclothes haven't made much difference. Maybe that compress you speak of is better though
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by C-Loftus 2y ago
Are there any communities of others online dealing with general eye strain? Or other blogs / videos that have helped others? I have had chronic eye pain for a while now and could really benefit from hearing what has helped others. I h
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by C-Loftus 2y ago
That appears to be a subscription service. Surely there must be something using piper or another offline TTS program that works for free?
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by C-Loftus 2y ago
Perhaps off topic, not sure, but does anyone have opinions on the easiest way to add bilingual TTS? I am trying to make Mandarin language learning decks and having free automated TTS would be very useful. I've tried out AwesomeTTS but
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Ask HN: Best tools for real-time API proxying/transformation?
2 points by C-Loftus 2y ago|0 comments
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by C-Loftus 2y ago
Does this program allow linking the same file to different locations on MacOS vs Linux? I have a few config files like the vscode settings.json that end up in different paths but have the same content. (I see it allows for files that are OS
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by C-Loftus 2y ago
Anki, audiobook apps, better TTS, basic text browsing on the internet, notes apps, etc.
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by C-Loftus 2y ago
There is so much market disruption potential for e-readers. Every one has a pretty big tradeoff if you are looking to use the e-reader as a general study tool (i.e. using it with Anki for language learning) - boox devices run Android 11, il
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by C-Loftus 2y ago
Is anyone using graph databases or sparql for these sorts of use cases? sparql is so powerful but not sure if there is enough metadata with ethereum for it to be useful.
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by C-Loftus 2y ago
Issues should be fixed now in the latest release.
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by C-Loftus 2y ago
For what it is worth, I still listen to and love human-read audiobooks! However, it is particularly useful to have an AI option for books that are too niche for there to be an incentive for an individual to narrate them. Lots of academic an
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by C-Loftus 2y ago
Thank you for the feedback and I'm sorry you had those issues. I cannot replicate at the moment on Ubuntu 24.04 but will check back on this. I presume it is something simple going wrong with how I am getting the home directory in golan
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by C-Loftus 2y ago
Yeah unfortunately I am not sure about the Apple Watch. On iOS I personally use BookPlayer [0] and find it easy to transfer mp3 files via USB. I think there are cloud sync options as well. Been very happy with that if you are looking for ot
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by C-Loftus 2y ago
Thank you! Wouldn't a website interface then make it competing with and thus inferior to solutions like those from 11elevenlabs? I am not opposed to creating a SaaS offering, but I feel I do not have the economies of scale nor propriet
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by C-Loftus 2y ago
Yeah that is totally fair. In my experience, I feel that after a while your brain starts to tune out some of the inflection differences. Piper models are honestly pretty solid as well. I think in general, AI audiobook solutions like mine ar
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by C-Loftus 2y ago
If you are looking to dedrm ebooks, that can be done via a calibre plugin. For audiobooks, I am not sure.
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by C-Loftus 2y ago
Thanks! At the moment, I don't think there are any public multispeaker models I am aware of. I could be wrong though!
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Show HN: Offline audiobook from any format with one CLI command(github.com)
105 points by C-Loftus 2y ago|44 comments
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by C-Loftus 2y ago
Synthesized voices are legitimately a great way to read more and give your eyes a break. I personally prefer just converting a page or book to an audiobook myself locally. The new piper TTS models are easy to run locally and work very well.
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by C-Loftus 2y ago
Is there anything like this for Linux (i.e. user-friendly blockers for the entire OS, not just the browser) I love the screen time feature on my iPhone to set nonnegotiable time limits for myself. However, I have not found any good solution
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by C-Loftus 2y ago
Sorry, apparently draft releases are private. I didn't realize that. Added an auto release. Here it is: https://github.com/C-Loftus/QuickPiperAudiobook/releases/tag...
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by C-Loftus 2y ago
Yes I do have prebuilt rolling releases. Since they are categorized as draft releases, GitHub hides them by default, but they are there and should work fine: https://github.com/C-Loftus/QuickPiperAudiobook/releases
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by C-Loftus 2y ago
Yes I mainly read non-fiction and I think your point is valid. That being said, I do listen to a fair amount of books that include interviews or travel writing with multiple characters and it still works well for me.
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by C-Loftus 2y ago
I personally love using Piper to make audiobooks offline. I made a CLI wrapper over it and it works great for me [0] Honestly surprised more people aren't using similar offline tools. I have listened to dozens of audiobooks in the past

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