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For those interested in doing this themselves, there’s some great existing software to create EPUB3 files with the audiobook aligned with text. https://storyteller-platform.gitlab.io/storyteller/ https://codeberg.org/richwaters/StoryAlign
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the idea of learning languages from AI didn't quite sit right with me. but that might be something to circle back to.
integrating learner dictionaries does sound like a fantastic idea. will definitely explore that!
hey HN! this is my attempt at language learning with audiobooks. it synchronizes text to speech, and shows translations. the audiobooks themselves are all public domain. got all of the audio alignment, translation, and asset generation working on my gaming computer. pretty happy with the pipeline, except for the sometimes subpar translations. if anyone is interested in the details I am happy to write them up! if you…
Just a heads up: the text is not displayed on my Firefox (140.8.0esr 64bit, Win11) however. On Edge it is displayed correctly.
hey HN! this is my attempt at language learning with audiobooks. it synchronizes text to speech, and shows translations. the audiobooks themselves are all public domain. got all of the audio alignment, translation, and asset generation working on my gaming computer. pretty happy with the pipeline, except for the sometimes subpar translations. if anyone is interested in the details I am happy to write them up! if you…
Hi. Interesting idea. Just a heads up: the text is not displayed on my Firefox (140.8.0esr 64bit, Win11) however. On Edge it is displayed correctly.
will make sure it falls back to fully visible text.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Reference/P...
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thanks! none of the audio is AI generated, it's all human narration, mostly sourced from librivox. (credits show when clicking the info icon) the idea of learning languages from AI didn't quite sit right with me. but that might be something to circle back to. integrating learner dictionaries does sound like a fantastic idea. will definitely explore that!
hey HN! this is my attempt at language learning with audiobooks. it synchronizes text to speech, and shows translations. the audiobooks themselves are all public domain. got all of the audio alignment, translation, and asset generation working on my gaming computer. pretty happy with the pipeline, except for the sometimes subpar translations. if anyone is interested in the details I am happy to write them up! if you…
Hi. Interesting idea. Just a heads up: the text is not displayed on my Firefox (140.8.0esr 64bit, Win11) however. On Edge it is displayed correctly.