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jkoff

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About jkoff

https://jonathankoff.com/

Recent public activity

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    Comment #45869869

    I'm working on a web app that creates easy-to-understand stories and explainers for the sake of language learning. You can listen in your favourite podcast app, or directly on the …

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    Comment #45564791

    https://infinitepod.app/ I'm working on a web app that creates easy-to-understand stories and explainers for the sake of language learning. You can listen in your favourite podcast…

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    Comment #45430692

    Link: https://infinitepod.app/ I'm working on a web app that creates easy-to-understand stories and explainers for the sake of language learning. You can listen in your favourite p…

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    Comment #44102554

    Thanks Adrian, that's helpful feedback! I've updated the page -- would you say that it now better answers the question?

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    Comment #44091575

    Link: https://infinitepod.app/ I'm building Infinite Pod, a web app that generates language learning podcasts tuned to your individual learning goals and level. It's based on the p…

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    Comment #44091495

    I can't help but point out the irony of a chess program written in Go, as someone that enjoys playing Go [1] myself. Sorry to hear it wasn't that fun, hope you still got something …

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    Comment #43157569

    While learning Japanese using a mix of comprehensible videos (I like cijapanese.com), podcasts, and shows, I've also been working on my own language learning podcast generator to s…

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    Comment #42984057

    I first generate a script to be handed to a TTS model. For this step, Claude 3.5 Sonnet works well. For voice synthesis, I've been using Google Cloud's Text-to-Speech API and it's …

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    Comment #42825928

    To be clear, I haven't shared this with anyone because I'm not yet sure that the content is useful and correct. As far as where I'm at: - I've listened to it in my target language …

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    Comment #42781592

    I did a double-take at the description since for a second I thought we were building the same tool. This is really cool, and seems like it'd greatly expand the set of podcasts I ca…

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    Comment #2936401

    Our entry is a fun bug tracker for small projects. Try it here: http://uberpro.nko2.nodeknockout.com/ Info page: http://nodeknockout.com/teams/4e24c9fe4d4c760100001495