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Maybe not a podcast, but I've often wished I could listen to a paper or an article while on a long drive
You may enjoy the product I've been working on...[0] it lets you listen to articles and subscribe to any website. [0] https://playtext.app
Definitely one of the coolest things I have seen an LLM do.
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Are you doing that with "old-fashioned" TTS, or have you found a good resource for uploading your own docs/epubs and having them read back by one of these higher quality synthesized voices? (I've been looking for the latter, but not having much luck.)
Elevenlabs reader does AI voices for free, not sure if they'll start charging at any point since I don't know how this fits into their business model.
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I don't know that "parasocial relationships" are the primary reason people like having real hosts. I have a huge list of things I've managed to change in my life because I heard some other real person talking about how they were possible. Listening to these people over time and realizing there's nothing about them that's so special that it makes things possible for them that aren't possible for me gets me off my butt…
In the same way that corporations are people, my friend, AI-generated and AI-voiced summaries of works by real people are also people, my friend.
Books I can understand, but I'm genuinely curious: would anyone here find it useful to hear scientific papers as narrated audio? Maybe it depends on the field, but when I read e.g. an ML paper, I almost always have to go through it line-by-line with a pen and scratchpad, jumping back and forth and taking notes, to be sure I've actually "got it". Sometimes I might read a paragraph a dozen times. I can't see myself get…
> Illuminate generates audio with two AI-generated voices in conversation, discussing the key points of select papers.
Great idea. I wonder how long until we'd see a lot of "autogenerated" podcasts with syndicated advertising inside spamming the podcast space. Like with robovoiced videos on YT reading some scraped content.
Would you listen to an auto-generated podcast? Seems like removing the humans from the equation kind of defeats the purpose.
I actually quite often wish I could access a condensed version of a few podcasts in text form. Sometimes there's little nuggets of information dropped by hosts or guests that don't make it onto any other medium.
When I do intentionally listen to podcasts (i.e. as opposed to having to, because that's the only available form of some content), I do so because I enjoy the style of the conversation itself.
Related: [rumors] Audible is starting a pilot project to do just that with the ebooks.
One problem I see with this is legitimizing LLM-extracted content as canon. The realistic human speech masks the fact that the LLM might be hallucinating or highlighting the wrong parts of a book/paper as important.
Happens in the very first example: [Attention is All You Need - 1:07] > Voice A: How did the "Attention is All You Need" paper address this sequential processing bottleneck of RNNs? > Voice B: So, instead of going step-by-step like RNNs, they introduced a model called the Transformer - hence the title. What title? The paper is entitled "Attention is All You Need". People are fooling themselves. These are stochastic p…
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