Show HN: I had some time yesterday so I made a GPT3 podcast to help you sleep

Post by viraptor » Fri, Dec 03, 2021, 12:14 PM UTC

doctorhandshake wrote: post #10

stavros wrote: post #8

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It is kind of hard to sleep to, I agree. This is a deepfake voice, ie it's generated by Google's WaveNet, which afaik is a deep learning thing. Unfortunately they didn't have a more whispered/softer voice, but I like the insanity of the generated stories anyway. GPT3 does tend to get a bit repetitive, though, with the default temperature (0.7).

AWS’s Polly can whisper.

Post by max-m » Fri, Dec 03, 2021, 12:16 PM UTC

sumgame wrote: post #6

I don't think I could sleep to that voice though super interesting as as a concept. Maybe using some sort of deepfake for voice would make this a 100x better.

Post by viraptor » Fri, Dec 03, 2021, 12:17 PM UTC

yessirwhatever wrote: post #11

stavros wrote: post #5

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You didn't even click, did you? You just wanted to complain.

A podcast is at-the-very-least a rss feed where items have a media enclosure element pointing to something for a pod-catcher to download [1]. If something else allows you to listen to episodic content via a player and does not satisfy this condition then it is factually wrong to call it a podcast. Do you think a TV show released weekly on Netflix is also a podcast? You can't listen to what you have made without havin…

Post by stavros » Fri, Dec 03, 2021, 12:19 PM UTC

yessirwhatever wrote: post #11

stavros wrote: post #5

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You didn't even click, did you? You just wanted to complain.

A podcast is at-the-very-least a rss feed where items have a media enclosure element pointing to something for a pod-catcher to download [1]. If something else allows you to listen to episodic content via a player and does not satisfy this condition then it is factually wrong to call it a podcast. Do you think a TV show released weekly on Netflix is also a podcast? You can't listen to what you have made without havin…

Post by yessirwhatever » Fri, Dec 03, 2021, 12:20 PM UTC

viraptor wrote: post #16

yessirwhatever wrote: post #11

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A podcast is at-the-very-least a rss feed where items have a media enclosure element pointing to something for a pod-catcher to download [1]. If something else allows you to listen to episodic content via a player and does not satisfy this condition then it is factually wrong to call it a podcast. Do you think a TV show released weekly on Netflix is also a podcast? You can't listen to what you have made without havin…

If only there was such a link on that page... Like Spotify, but maybe for "more platforms". If only... :-P