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Wiki Radio: The thrilling sound of random Wikipedia

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Re: Wiki Radio: The thrilling sound of random Wikipedia

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Post by squeaky-clean »

paularmstrong wrote: post #6
tasty_freeze wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That sounds like a great idea for a sleep aid: have an AI narrate random wikipedia pages. Maybe it could even allow you to specify topics you have no interest in so it doesn't accidentally pick a topic that might grab your interest.

No need for an AI. Text-to-speech (TTS) is by far good enough and much easier on CPU/GPU and the environment.

NotebookLM's audio mode doesn't just read out the given text, it creates a podcast format with 2 hosts where one will ask questions and the other will answer, and go back and forth in a discussion style.

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Post by laszlojamf »

I love this, and I don’t mean to throw any shade on it, but this is kind of thing I’d the best to come out of the ”vibe coding” revolution. I don’t know if this was vibe coded, but what I mean to say is that there are a million things that you just never get around to doing, and LLMs help you to actually _realize_ little cool ideas like this.

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Post by jjice »

laszlojamf wrote: post #13

I love this, and I don’t mean to throw any shade on it, but this is kind of thing I’d the best to come out of the ”vibe coding” revolution. I don’t know if this was vibe coded, but what I mean to say is that there are a million things that you just never get around to doing, and LLMs help you to actually _realize_ little cool ideas like this.

Hopefully the "small internet" gets has a resurgence of goofy websites due to reduced development time. Boilerplate gets super annoying, but LLMs don't procrastinate the way I do.

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Post by guerrilla »

vorpalhex wrote: post #8
paularmstrong wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No need for an AI. Text-to-speech (TTS) is by far good enough and much easier on CPU/GPU and the environment.

Using an "AI" (LLM) enhanced TTS adds in tone and other markers to let the underlying TTS sound much more natural. You can then double down with an ML tuned TTS to get a more natural voice.

What's an example of that? Anytging I can run locally?

Re: Wiki Radio: The thrilling sound of random Wikipedia

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Post by ghastmaster »

I skipped 2 and landed on the 3rd audio piece and loved it. I dunno why. It is totally my jam for the time being. lost the wiki link, but here is the youtube link. "lil pants" :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxcXVqgKd9c

WTF: That link landed me on something else after this comment that I am totally loving as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPu4XfWkRvc&list=OLAK5uy_kNl...

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