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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…

Exactly how I perceive it

Agreed, I should do this. Although I still concerned about the costs of maintaining all these MP3s.

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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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 "no…

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:/…

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…

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40963194

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 mone…

It wouldn't fit into HN's characters limit

You should try listening to some non-fiction, such as history, philosophy, biographies, etc. It's already great for that purpose.

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 th…

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…

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.

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 wou…

Really interesting take!

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 a…

I don't think it's high quality, tbh Much less enjoyable than with OpenAI TTS.

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.

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 kn…

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 la…

In this particular case, it's just that the blog post is basically just a link: https://paulgraham.com/lwba.html

Their TTS model is worse than OpenAI's though