evan_ry

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Only visit this website once(visited.onlyvisitonce.com)
3 points by evan_ry 2y ago|2 comments
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by evan_ry 2y ago
I really didn't intend to be dishonest. I just wrote a catchy title (which can be a bit misleading, but not dramatically, as all the audiobooks I'm mentioning are really accessible to people; I developed all the infrastructure nee
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by evan_ry 2y ago
Exactly how I perceive it
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by evan_ry 2y ago
Agreed, I should do this. Although I still concerned about the costs of maintaining all these MP3s.
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by evan_ry 2y ago
For some of the books, it's true; for some, it's not. I'm really enjoying listening to nonfiction – history, philosophy, biographies.
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by evan_ry 2y ago
Thank you for support!
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by evan_ry 2y ago
Why do you think it's a lie? There are 70,000 audiobooks in the catalog, and people can listen to them. If audio is generated on-demand in the background, it does not make them "not-audiobooks", and it does not make my post a
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by evan_ry 2y ago
It is a hobby project, it is crowd-sourced, and I am selling tech services (not subscriptions). And I don't see any lie there. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40964863 https://news.ycombinator.com/
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by evan_ry 2y ago
1. There are 70,000 audiobooks in the catalog, and people can listen to them. If audio is generated on-demand in the background, it does not make them "not-audiobooks", and it does not make my post a lie. It's just a technica
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by evan_ry 2y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40963194
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by evan_ry 2y ago
Come on, what's your problem, man? I explained what I did in detail. I'm open in the comment section and explained my reasoning regarding the pricing. I've made practically no money off of this project so far. There is an opt
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by evan_ry 2y ago
It wouldn't fit into HN's characters limit
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by evan_ry 2y ago
You should try listening to some non-fiction, such as history, philosophy, biographies, etc. It's already great for that purpose.
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by evan_ry 2y ago
I checked out the omnivore TTS. They're using a previous generation of TTS models, which most of the reader apps are using. They're reasonable, cheap, but sound noticeably worse than OpenAI's or 11Labs. I don't like them
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by evan_ry 2y ago
I answerd this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40963194 I like the idea of letting people donate the audio they purchased to the community. Although I'm scared that I'll have no money.
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by evan_ry 2y ago
Seems like some kind of bug on the LemonSqueezy side. It is enabled in the store settings, but I also cannot see it. Will open a ticket.
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by evan_ry 2y ago
Right now, it's not working like that. I was thinking about it. On the one hand, I want to make money. On the other hand, I understand that making everything available for free would be much more aligned with the Project Gutenberg phil
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by evan_ry 2y ago
Really interesting take!
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by evan_ry 2y ago
I really thought that 1.5x playback speed would be the same as 1.5x generation speed. Wow. Looks like I was wrong. Regarding the subscription — I thought that no subscription was actually a competitive advantage, but now so many people are
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by evan_ry 2y ago
I don't think it's high quality, tbh Much less enjoyable than with OpenAI TTS.
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by evan_ry 2y ago
I don't think that they contradict. Maybe AI-generated books should also be a part of Librivox. I tried to listen to some, but the quality of narration was bad.
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by evan_ry 2y ago
Well, someone has to pay for API calls :D I was thinking about launching a Kickstarter campaign and making the whole library free for everyone. But I need more feedback. I don't know if it's viable.
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by evan_ry 2y ago
In general, it is not great for fiction right now, needs a lot of improvement But for history/philosophy/science books its great. And yeah, OpenAI's model is bad for non-English languages. At least, for now...
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by evan_ry 2y ago
In this particular case, it's just that the blog post is basically just a link: https://paulgraham.com/lwba.html
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by evan_ry 2y ago
Their TTS model is worse than OpenAI's though
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by evan_ry 2y ago
This is very cool! I think you should try OpenAI's voices for characters too. They're really good at catching the emotions. They even can scream! https://x.com/ivryb/status/1780210661189992877
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by evan_ry 2y ago
Holy sh*t, nope, didn't know it
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by evan_ry 2y ago
I'm postponing the development of the voice selector for like 3 months already. Something more important is always popping up xD
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by evan_ry 2y ago
You're right about the popular books, but the long-tail of not-so-popular ones doesn't have a human audio version, and probably will never have. Plus, sometimes available human narrations are so bad that you really would like to l
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by evan_ry 2y ago
Yeah, I think it should be possible technically. Put all the chapters through LLM and ask it to add markup for different characters/voices. Right now, my paid users are listening mostly to non-fiction, so it seems like they don't

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