You can get pretty close with open source software: https://claudio.uk/posts/audiblez-v4.html
good, now how I can use this on mobile??
Generate the audiobook on a laptop and then listen to it on mobile
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#73You can get pretty close with open source software: https://claudio.uk/posts/audiblez-v4.html
Interesting! This uses the Kokoro-82M model, which has a pretty good quality, but the set of languages is still quite limited.
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#74This is definitely the future, I'm worried about the electric slip and slide world we're heading into though, where everything is completely spoonfed and consumptive. I can't help but think we're heading back into animalism.
> heading back into animalism Could you expand upon this? Any milestones towards that which we should be mindful of?
Technology is pretty quickly and apparently not only coming for our critical thinking, but our agency
With llms, "knowing things" is already starting to feel like a thing of a past, not to me, but to a lot of others, there's no longer an incentive to "switch on".
Why should a kid learn anything if a robot is instantly better at everything? Maths got replaced by calculators, deep critical thinking will get replaced by llms a lot of the time, which are word calculators, which is the closest thing we have to a logic calculator.
This is more passive autopilot software, which further promotes learning as something you 'consume' rather than something you seek.
The public consciousness has absolutely taken a semptember 11 tier nosedive since social media, we're approaching what I term cultual schizophrenia, which I posted about on my blog which I deleted, but I've readded it if you're interested [https://substack.com/home/post/p-156983317]. There's no contextualisers in the media to give the right emphasis to the right things.
This is just my perspective, from what I've seen from other younger people of my age. We are heading into extremely interesting times, everything profoundly destabalising thing we've speculated about is happening at the exact same time. We desperately need visionaries in politics.
Basically I'm not doing too hot
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#75Unfortunately the app is not compatible with Android 15.
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#77I love the idea as I listen to a lot of podcasts and an occasional audiobook.
The first impression is not that great. There's nothing natural about the voice. While individual words and phrases sound good, there's still no decent cadence and intonation. Feels flat and robotic.
However, I will definitely experiment some more.
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#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
AI voice is literally the only way I have to "read" an obscure article during 1h non-static commutes.
I understand, It can do things that weren't previously possible, but it will also replace things that were done by humans, by artists before. Overall, in my opinion, is still a loss.
I think calling this art is a stretch, as they usually aren’t the author.
By automating it, it lowers the barrier to access this type of audio content for the masses. If you want to choose to pay someone you read something for you, the market allows that. This feels like a net gain.
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#79This is excellent. I just tested the Finnish voices on my simple news archive [1], and the pronunciation was quite good and clear. It's unfortunate that I can't export audio clips locally; otherwise I would immediately look into using this for generating my Finnish flashcard decks from the same material [2]. I've thought about doing the same with the audio and video feeds included with this news broadcast, but gettin…
> It's unfortunate that I can't export audio clips locally; otherwise I would immediately look into using this for generating my Finnish flashcard decks from the same material [2]. elevenlabs has an API which seemed quite reasonable when I looked into it. A bit of python should get you what you want pretty quickly.
Oh! I'll look into that, thanks.
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#80You can get pretty close with open source software: https://claudio.uk/posts/audiblez-v4.html
Oh no, it doesn't run on Apple Silicon. That's too bad.
I wrote about a similar model for MLX that can run be on apple silicon https://eamag.me/2025/Voice-Cloning