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BTW you might want to ask dang to change the link in the submission too!
The link should be okay, I don't have another website, just the feed is hosted elsewhere (and it's linked in the target page).
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?
There are free websites like this: https://ttsreader.com/
But TTS is built into browsers as well eg (this it would need some code not much) https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/SpeechSynth...
I use AWS Polly to read HN in the mornings
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The link should be okay, I don't have another website, just the feed is hosted elsewhere (and it's linked in the target page).
Just listened to one of the episodes. Sounds decent. I personally think it would sound a lot better if you slowed down the speed a little bit. 0.75x sounded much better to me.
Definitely did not help me fall a sleep.
I love the idea, yet... The latest episode 7 is about a girl thinking about killing a witch, kicking her in a face, her hitting her back, and stuff. Definitely did not help me fall a sleep.
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.
The voice of the latest podcast sounds much nicer. It's a fairly convincing nonsense podcast.
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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 initially didn't recognize the username because it was all-lowercase, so I'm curious why the rename from StavrosK to stavros?
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No problem! Also if you're into the music production end of it, check out adaptiverb. I use it extensively when I make ambient stuff and it is unparalleled for quality.
Hey, would you by any change be able to generate another background track for me? The one I have is 10' long so it won't be enough if the story is longer, and I don't know how to make these.
One is just piano, the other is keys and drums. On Bandcamp they are about 10' each, but they can be made of arbitrary length, without ever repeating themselves exactly (in principle... in practice it's likely there are exact repeats but they should be few and far between).
If you have an idea of the type of background music you need, I can make other tracks too. I'd be happy to work with you on this.
I love the idea, yet... The latest episode 7 is about a girl thinking about killing a witch, kicking her in a face, her hitting her back, and stuff. Definitely did not help me fall a sleep.
Yeah, it's getting a bit dark these days.
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Hey, would you by any change be able to generate another background track for me? The one I have is 10' long so it won't be enough if the story is longer, and I don't know how to make these.
Just found this comment. I'm a bit into generative / algorithmic music; here are two demos I made a year ago: https://fligenstein.bandcamp.com/ One is just piano, the other is keys and drums. On Bandcamp they are about 10' each, but they can be made of arbitrary length, without ever repeating themselves exactly (in principle... in practice it's likely there are exact repeats but they should be few and far between). I…