OfflineSergio

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by OfflineSergio 2mo ago
This is awesome. People are already talking about use of local models for heavy tasks like llm inference. TTS is very much possible on device without any high end gpu. That's why Ive been working integrating it into a free reader web a
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by OfflineSergio 4mo ago
if the doesn't leave my phone why is it a subscription?
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by OfflineSergio 4mo ago
For the Audio part, I suggest https://desktop.with.audio
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by OfflineSergio 7mo ago
I'm working on a new compontent for viewing PDFs in original format and structure but show text highlighting while a specific piece of the PDF is being played in the TTS engine. This for my app ( https://with.audio ). Which a
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by OfflineSergio 8mo ago
this is not good but the point is this can be improved much easier than improving human accidents rate. Both are very difficult problems, but one is certainly harder.
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by OfflineSergio 8mo ago
When it comes to cost rebuilding, we can't compare the software engineering with other industries(like cards or buildings). I think this makes it much more iterative compared to them. Living in North America, if feel like 99% of apara
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by OfflineSergio 8mo ago
This is amazing. The audio feels very natural and it's fairly good at handling complext text to speech tasks. I've been working on WithAudio ( https://with.audio ). Currently it only uses Kokoros. I need to test this a
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by OfflineSergio 8mo ago
A one time payment app - interesting (I'm also working on something with similar moneytization solution). How are things going? I'd love to know the experience of another solopreneur, what stack are you using? I wonder - What are
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by OfflineSergio 8mo ago
My project is WithAudio and is gonna be WithAudio for a while. Its a text to speech reader. Initially I decided to generate pargraph by paragaph. But that was not a great call as users sometimes might have to wait for the whole paragraph to
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What happened in Q4 in my personal project(blog.with.audio)
3 points by OfflineSergio 9mo ago|1 comments
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by OfflineSergio 9mo ago
As its obvious in my profile, WithAudio is my personal project that started in 2025. Starting Q3 I decided to plan it quarterly and write a summary every month. This was for Q3: https://blog.with.audio/posts/summer-2025
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by OfflineSergio 9mo ago
Happy New Year! 2025 I'm proud of my 2025. I lost weight with a slow pace. I launched one of my projects and built on top of it and I'm currently at 99 items sold. Hopefull it will get to 100 by end of the year. Not gonna lie, bad
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by OfflineSergio 9mo ago
Looks interesting, I spent some time on text to speech in browser this year. You might find it interesting. https://desktop.with.audio/reader
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by OfflineSergio 9mo ago
Hey! this looks cool. I'm curious how it works, can you share more? you said it's not a subscription and it's "pay for what you use". So hows the pricing work? Do you charge me or I'll bring an API key to some
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by OfflineSergio 9mo ago
https://with.audio/ One time payment text to speech reader application for Mac and Windows. Not a subscription because it runs 100% on your device! I've been doing this in most of 2025 in my free time. It went way way
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by OfflineSergio 9mo ago
With all the AI hype lately, if a product like that actually existed, you would’ve heard about it by now.
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by OfflineSergio 9mo ago
- "Complex Systems with Patrick McKenzie (patio11)" - My First Million (www.mfmpod.com). I just don't know why, but for some reason I stopped listening to them in the past 2 months, but rest of the year I was really enjoying
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by OfflineSergio 9mo ago
Came here to say this! Complex Systems is not the best for me but it's for sure the new content I found this year. I find myself listening and sometimes pausing to search to learn more about what he is talking about.
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Show HN: Listen to Any GitHub README(desktop.with.audio)
1 points by OfflineSergio 9mo ago|0 comments
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by OfflineSergio 9mo ago
Still WithAudio https://desktop.with.audio . It's getting some attention and has actually sold licences! Someone asked for a free license in exchange of detailed private review and bug reports. They have reported more than
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by OfflineSergio 9mo ago
Because I can’t debug it and can’t understand it!
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Show HN: One Time Payment Text Speech in the Browser(blog.with.audio)
1 points by OfflineSergio 10mo ago|0 comments
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by OfflineSergio 10mo ago
Saw this a few days ago, it was an interesting. I liked the part about people being wrong about how much they know about something but the video title and the incident seems like bad luck or bad timing as it is a standalone issue. The same
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by OfflineSergio 10mo ago
Subscriptions really opened so many options. A kid can play around an enterprise software for a couple of months with a reasonable price. But not everything needs to be a subscription. It truly bugs me. We own very powerful laptops and des
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by OfflineSergio 10mo ago
almost for any project I work on keep reminding myself os what I read somwhere: 90% of the project takes 90% of the time and the other 10% of the project takes another 90% of the time.
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by OfflineSergio 10mo ago
If I was writing this I wouldn't put the "Has smart, humble coworker(s)." right there on top. I there is no reasonable solution for that (s) in this case but stil...
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by OfflineSergio 10mo ago
Make it required to see AI generated PRs and README updates
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by OfflineSergio 10mo ago
yeah. We can see how controversial this is by looking at the comment count
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by OfflineSergio 10mo ago
I really like to know if other stuff that make things easy would have felt the same to fols who have been doing computer programming for the past 30 years if they were presented to them with a similar speed.
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by OfflineSergio 10mo ago
>I do a lot of desktop screen-reader and pdf/doc/epub/etc text to speech every single day. I've been working a product called WithAudio ( https://with.audio ). Are you open to me reaching out and give a free

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