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Re: Show HN: From Markdown to Video

#51
Wow, I may be biased because this fills a particular niche usecase for me, but this is truly incredible.

I can't stand hearing the sound of my own voice, but do a lot of tutorial content production in Markdown for guides for learning material.

This would allow me to re-use all of the existing material I have, which already includes detailed step-by-step screenshots and text instructions, to make voice-over videos with slides and publish to Youtube. Amazing!

Re: Show HN: From Markdown to Video

#52
post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I totally disagree, and I have the exact opposite reaction. Markdown is something tons of people know already. I literally just glanced over the article and felt I could generate a "narrated PowerPoint", which seems like the main purpose of this, extremely quickly. Why would I want to learn a completely new language because there are some trivially minor syntax oddities with using Markdown? The perfect is the enemy o…

btw, for narrated powerpoint, you can actually use Video Puppet directly with Powerpoint files - just put narration into speaker notes. Here's more info on that: https://videopuppet.com/docs/powerpoint/

Yeah, this is super great right here.

Re: Show HN: From Markdown to Video

#53
I think this would be great for all the professors/teachers who suddenly have to teach courses online. If the lecture can be made beforehand, then the teacher can just focus on addressing questions or problems on zoom/skype(or whatever platform is used for teaching online)

Re: Show HN: From Markdown to Video

#55
post #19

From a technology point of view, this is really cool. From the view of someone that occasionally watches videos on YouTube, I am trying to figure out a nice way to say... I hate it. Or more specifically, I hate that it generates the voice, and basically enables video content spam. What we don't need more of is cheap, easy to automatically generate videos that are basically spam and/or clickbait, trying to get views.…

We need better reporting and labelling of farm-generated or auto-generated videos - possibly ML models that detect this. However it will cost YouTube revenue because they're profiting off of content farms. I don't see any other way to fix the problem.

Re: Show HN: From Markdown to Video

#56
post #46
post #19

From a technology point of view, this is really cool. From the view of someone that occasionally watches videos on YouTube, I am trying to figure out a nice way to say... I hate it. Or more specifically, I hate that it generates the voice, and basically enables video content spam. What we don't need more of is cheap, easy to automatically generate videos that are basically spam and/or clickbait, trying to get views.…

Aren't these kind of videos (auto-generated) prohibited by YouTube?

Only if you want to run ads.

Re: Show HN: From Markdown to Video

#57
post #19

From a technology point of view, this is really cool. From the view of someone that occasionally watches videos on YouTube, I am trying to figure out a nice way to say... I hate it. Or more specifically, I hate that it generates the voice, and basically enables video content spam. What we don't need more of is cheap, easy to automatically generate videos that are basically spam and/or clickbait, trying to get views.…

Bear in mind that English is everyone's second-favorite language, which means that probably half its speakers don't always feel comfortable recording or public speaking. This helps them over the hump.

Re: Show HN: From Markdown to Video

#58
If this type of application interests you, have a look at:

https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/kinetophone

It is an application/shared library for Linux, released as free software. It has a GUI program for live narration and one, "Vox", for creating video from PDF or still images using speech synthesis (Festival).

http://download-mirror.savannah.gnu.org/releases/kinetophone...

The Kinetophone shared library could be used as a plug in for presentation software. Kinetophone's file format is XML. I haven't updated it for years, and it does require occasional patches to support the latest FFMPEG. It was originally a commercial application for OS X called Ishmael, back in about '07 which I ported to Linux after my company went out of business.

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