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This is an interesting thought!

There isn't a strong pattern when narrowing to a single voice, but the ElevenLabs voices in general are much more easily mistaken for a human compared to any other provider we're c…

This is largely correct! When we launch a new game we're planning on distorting the AI voices, and adding background noise.

My cofounder and I were playing with AI voices from different vendors and were shocked at how good the results were. We decided to make a game so you can test your own ability to t…

How do you manage the TTS on the books?

How is privacy enforced? Are you planning on maintaining this: https://github.com/kubetail-org/kubetail as an open source repo?

Apple doesn't publicly comment on how the chart rankings are calculated, which is why we can't draw strong conclusions, but our understanding is that this would do the job. Since t…

We can't say for sure how the charts are being gamed, but there is strong evidence that its related to a pay per play scheme to pump subscription numbers in a small time window. Th…

While Apple doesn't comment on how the rankings are calculated, the common knowledge is indeed that its heavily biased towards recent subscriptions.

sorry! we're still working out the logistics of running the podcast but we'll switch the site over to https as soon as possible

What is the search you are conducting?

That is a great question - we actually didn't consider using elastic search, we went with Solr because we use it for Octopart and are experienced with it so it made developing Thri…

We actually use Solr on our backend - we love it's open source community and rich feature set.

Thanks for the feedback - you're right, the TOS prohibition was overly restrictive, we've removed the deep-linking clause. As far as attribute comparison, we are constantly trying …

I think this is more because of the community in the Bay Area rather than how far Chicago is. Most of my non-techie friends from U of I did move to Chicago. Chicago seems to be a h…

This is particularly embarrassing as the state has a very good flagship tech school at the U of I (the most visible internet product coming from there being paypal, which ended up …