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Hacker News in Slow Italian

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Hacker News in Slow Italian

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Post by lakySK »

There are plenty of podcasts to listen to some slow basic Italian, but often they just talk about random things I'm not that interested in. Nothing a few hours of tinkering with Python cannot solve these days!

Introducing Hacker News in Slow Italian. Each episode is generated automatically, using GPT4 API to summarise the top articles on Hacker News and then fed to Play.ht for text-to-speech.

The (very short) code is available on Github: https://github.com/laky/hn-slow-italian

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Post by lakySK »

Let me know in here if there is a particular language you'd like to see for this!

Not gonna lie, the costs run in order of dollars per episode, so if you are keen on listening to this, let me know, otherwise it would be a waste of money :)

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Post by gus_massa »

lakySK wrote: post #2

Let me know in here if there is a particular language you'd like to see for this! Not gonna lie, the costs run in order of dollars per episode, so if you are keen on listening to this, let me know, otherwise it would be a waste of money :)

Why Italian? What is Slow Italian? [Hi from Argentina!]

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Post by lakySK »

gus_massa wrote: post #3
lakySK wrote: post #2

Let me know in here if there is a particular language you'd like to see for this! Not gonna lie, the costs run in order of dollars per episode, so if you are keen on listening to this, let me know, otherwise it would be a waste of money :)

Why Italian? What is Slow Italian? [Hi from Argentina!]

Because I’m learning Italian and need it slow and in simple words & sentences.

There are a bunch of podcasts that are called along the lines of News in Slow Italian, Stories in Slow Italian, etc that are targeted to the language learners. So just taking a fun twist on that :)

Can be done for any language though. And I’m sure the prompt can be tuned for different levels of difficulty.

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Post by ageitgey »

lakySK wrote: post #2

Let me know in here if there is a particular language you'd like to see for this! Not gonna lie, the costs run in order of dollars per episode, so if you are keen on listening to this, let me know, otherwise it would be a waste of money :)

Would be really cool in Spanish!

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Post by scotty79 »

lakySK wrote: post #2

Let me know in here if there is a particular language you'd like to see for this! Not gonna lie, the costs run in order of dollars per episode, so if you are keen on listening to this, let me know, otherwise it would be a waste of money :)

I'd really love to hear Portuguese. What else did you do to immerse yourself in the language you are learning? I have trouble to even force youtube to give me content in Portuguese.

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Post by lakySK »

ageitgey wrote: post #5
lakySK wrote: post #2

Let me know in here if there is a particular language you'd like to see for this! Not gonna lie, the costs run in order of dollars per episode, so if you are keen on listening to this, let me know, otherwise it would be a waste of money :)

Would be really cool in Spanish!

Ok, let me try and generate one episode for you when I get home. Curious to hear what you think afterwards :)

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Post by CamelRocketFish »

lakySK wrote: post #2

Let me know in here if there is a particular language you'd like to see for this! Not gonna lie, the costs run in order of dollars per episode, so if you are keen on listening to this, let me know, otherwise it would be a waste of money :)

This is great! I didn’t see an option to slow the playback down to 0.5 as 1.0 is still fast for a beginner.
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