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i did end up open-sourcing the aligner! https://github.com/samuelcole/tale-align

i really loved this description, and i wrote up the technique into a full tale: https://tale.fyi/@sam/aligning-800-audiobooks-8-000-hours-to...

i actually wrote this up (and narrated it, ha) into a full tale: https://tale.fyi/@sam/aligning-800-audiobooks-8-000-hours-to...

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there's a subtle line on the left that should track vaguely where you are in the paragraph, i added a little easter egg yesterday: if you hold the play button the indicator grows t…

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just did the explicit 'read from here' line, to set the watermark precisely (it also controls where the play button starts from) check it out! let me know what you think

got it working! https://tale.fyi/moby-dick it got confused by some of the more uhh complex passages ;-)

i think i fixed it? let me know i love that you're using the PWA... i love PWAs, so i added fun stuff like offline support, but i wasn't sure if anyone would find it

shipped! look for a sun/moon icon near the tale.fyi title at the top

yeah right now you have to use browser zoom, but noted!

good news: i already store the word level alignments, i just felt like words lighting up were distracting i might add this as an option in the future, thanks!

oh, i've disliked passwords for my entire career i think: 1. everyone uses the same string 2. if they don't use the same string, they forget which password goes to which site, whic…

good catch, fixed: orientation: 'any' was meant as 'don't lock the phone' and android treated it the exact opposite. removed it sadly it may take a bit for your phone to pick up th…

i used to run a literary journal in college, so i built that dna into tale as 'lists', so that curators can be followed and they can create lists of their favorite work. i dunno if…

i actually had an out-of-memory bug, which i've since fixed. chewing through it now to see if we can get it

thanks! i really appreciate that you get it: 'whispersync for the open web' is a really great description, i might use it ;-)

it follows your browser/device preference, but noted that a manual override would be a useful setting!

awww thanks, you get it noted for next time: the great fiction deserves something, we may not

you wrote brat! i 'own' your book (on kindle, ha, so i'm not sure if that counts as real ownership), and it's on my to-read pile anyways, i'm going to send you an email i filed tic…

not right now! i'm still deciding what i want to do with this tbh, the most exciting thing is the aligner, i might extract that into an open source project... that's a good idea

i know, i'm being a bit emotional here, ha i'm mostly reacting to the default thing that people scroll are reddit, facebook, instagram, ahem hn which are all non-fiction... i wante…