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

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Interesting concept. Two suggestions: 1- Don't host on anchor. Podcasting is an open standard. Don't let companies (like Spotify or Apple) take it over. Check https://podcastindex.org/ 2- The voice is too mechanical for this to be actually reasonable to listen to at night, potentially could be listenable with AWS Polly Neural voices, it's pretty good.

Googles neural voices are much better than any of Amazon’s.

Agreed. I recently built an internal application allowing our customer reps to play around with ideas using text-to-speech before sending the "copy" to a studio for a professional human recording, and included both Google WaveNet and Amazon Polly in the available voice synthesis choices. Polly is in its own right plain and simply mediocre for the most part, and in comparison to WaveNet it's just awful.

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

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The AI megabrain writes what the AI megabrain wants to write!

Can we get another story about prince John and princess Yoko?

Ask and you shall receive!

https://anchor.fm/deepdreams/episodes/Episode-5-e1b6trr

With a new voice, as well!

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

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Interesting concept. Two suggestions: 1- Don't host on anchor. Podcasting is an open standard. Don't let companies (like Spotify or Apple) take it over. Check https://podcastindex.org/ 2- The voice is too mechanical for this to be actually reasonable to listen to at night, potentially could be listenable with AWS Polly Neural voices, it's pretty good.

I didn't much love hosting on Anchor/Spotify, but I made this in half an hour and I didn't want to have to get into RSS/site generation. Do you know of an easy way to dump audio files and some metadata somewhere and get a Podcast with RSS? I can upload there as well. I'll try Polly, thanks! The current voice annoys me too.

Polly supports ssml tags for nuanced vocal inflection and emphasis. Gpt-3 could probably output high quality tags if you run your content back through with an ssml prompt.

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

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I've worked with Stavros a lot over the past decade. Half an hour is totally plausible...

I didn’t check OP’s username so your comment made me wonder what an amazing technology platform is Stavros!

I have wondered the same thing myself in the past.

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

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Can we get another story about prince John and princess Yoko?

Ask and you shall receive! https://anchor.fm/deepdreams/episodes/Episode-5-e1b6trr With a new voice, as well!

Goddamn, this episode is dark. I should have vetted it more while generating.

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

#88

Interesting concept. Two suggestions: 1- Don't host on anchor. Podcasting is an open standard. Don't let companies (like Spotify or Apple) take it over. Check https://podcastindex.org/ 2- The voice is too mechanical for this to be actually reasonable to listen to at night, potentially could be listenable with AWS Polly Neural voices, it's pretty good.

AWS Polly looks interesting! I wish it supported some more languages, for personal reasons. Maybe I'll try to set something up that reads ebooks, tweets, or news articles to me with this.

Do you know if there are any similar quality TTS tools for less technical applications? I mean, where you can just type in the text you want and get an audio file with a high quality voice?

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

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>>once upon a time there were three princesses who were brothers I would never sleep with this, I would laugh too much! I love absurdist AI stories

Weirdest one yet:

>> So he chained her up in her room and he chained up hundreds of angry wolves in the other side of the room. [...] But he made the window and the doors big enough so that the fierce beasts could move in and out and chase her away. And they lived happily ever after.

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

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You seriously made all this in half an hour?

I've worked with Stavros a lot over the past decade. Half an hour is totally plausible...

By the power of glue code, I manifest products.
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