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audiala

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About audiala

Founder of Audiala https://audiala.com, an AI-driven mobile app providing audioguides for cities worldwide. We're transforming the way you explore cities with engaging audio descriptions of landmarks. Passionate about tech, history, and travel.

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    We are currently working on this with Audiala (iOS and webapp, Android should be released any coming days), making progress slowly but surely. We started to add tools to the AI cha…

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    Really disappointed with Anthropic recently, burned through 2 max plans and extra usage past 10 days, getting limited almost 1h in a 5h session. Reading about the extra "safe guard…

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    Comment #47340345

    Is it the technology you hate or some of its applications (or both)?

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    Comment #46108952

    It doesn't really work. I tried my website and it shows up, while definitely being built after 2023. There is a mistake in the metadata of the page that shows it as from 2011. http…

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    Comment #44254503

    What is the current state of the art for open source multilingual TTS? I have found Kokoro to be great as English as well, but am still searching for a good solution for French, Ja…

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    Comment #42425695

    Nice, I will check your solution too. I would also love to have NotebookLM available via API, it could be nice to generate podcast-like guides.

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    Comment #42393587

    Thanks for sharing. This type of storytelling is what I want to achieve, even if I am not there yet. But I am confident this is achievable already.

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    Comment #42393559

    We rely on AI for most of the content and correct if mistakes are spotted, but they seem quite rare. 99% of the content is directly coming from our AI pipeline.

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    Comment #42386217

    Love this source, didn't know about it!

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    Comment #42386160

    I just noticed that you run https://allaboutberlin.com . My first website was https://toutsurprague.fr in 2008, similar ideas :)

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    Comment #42386142

    Yes, it's definitely a cool project! Sometimes it's hard to stop reading and listening at all there is to learn and instead code... I hope to have the itineraries with directions d…

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    Comment #42385950

    It’s a RAG pipeline based on content from wikipedia and relevant websites. Getting the list of relevant places might the trickiest part of the pipeline but for this I settled with …

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    Comment #42385896

    I have built https://audiala.com which creates audioguides for historical and touristic places in cities all over the world. It brings a bit over $500/month in in-app purchases. I …

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    Comment #41942446

    Same for me. Editing the config.toml didn't help either.

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    Comment #41641224

    This is fantastic, thank you!

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    Comment #41577201

    Indeed, but as you increase the complexity, you increase the chance of failure, and increase the costs as well, even if those are quite minimal in comparison with the time a human …

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    Comment #41576911

    We use an approach inspired by this project to generate high level pages about city POIs such as this one: https://audiala.com/en/united-states/philadelphia/edgar-alla... It's far …

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    Comment #41508968

    I like the idea but it's "hallucinating" a lot. An example that I often use is to search for a building not too well know in a small city. If the information (such as architect, bu…

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    Comment #41508929

    I built Audiala [1][2][3], which is a platform that creates virtual tour guides that goes with you anywhere in the world. While the content is mostly static now, the pipeline is th…

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    Comment #41419576

    Thanks, I like the design of your site better than the other alternatives I found and it came exactly when I needed it. As other have mentioned, a way to run it locally would be gr…

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    Part of the issue is to select the right Wikipedia article. Wikidata offers a way to know for sure that you query the LLM with the right data. Also the wikipedia txtai dataset is f…

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    Wikidata is such a treasure. There is quite a learning curve to master the SPARQL query language but it is really powerful. We are testing it to provide context to LLMs when genera…

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    Thanks for the answer Rob, we just reached out :) We arrived to the same conclusion, we mostly rely on AWS Polly so far. Hopefully the pricing of better alternatives goes significa…