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Re: Show HN: tale.fyi, we deserve a home for fiction

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Post by samuelcole »

wrsh07 wrote: post #4

This is great! I would love an explicit "set bookmark to here" button if I scroll up from the high watermark I discovered the reset, but it took a minute and I expect given the way I read being able to explicitly walk the high watermark back a bit would be nice (maybe that's doable if you select text? I didn't try!) The format is nice, I love standard ebooks I opened Moby Dick but didn't see how to listen to it on my…

moby dick didn't align properly, there's a confidence gate it didn't pass.

i know, it makes me sad too, i'll keep working on it

this is the list of everything: https://tale.fyi/audiobooks

librivox is all human volunteers, so i think it makes a difference from eleven labs, but i might add a fallback to ai readings for folks who want that

reset feedback noted!

Re: Show HN: tale.fyi, we deserve a home for fiction

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Post by piltdownman »

mplanchard wrote: post #6

Unrelated, but all I want is a letterboxd for books, with the light social aspect, the ability to log a read multiple times, and with a great interface. I read my hope for this into the title of this post, unfortunately.

CLZ Books is sort of in that domain, and is the best solution I came across for cataloguing and tracking my 1000+ post 1970s books

https://clz.com/books

Re: Show HN: tale.fyi, we deserve a home for fiction

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Post by samuelcole »

mkl wrote: post #5

We have many homes for fiction already. Mine is my ebook reader. For many it's their bookshelf or local library. First impression: autoplay of noisy audio when you go to a book is awful. Please don't do this. > Humanity has a massive corpus of fiction, thanks to copyright law... Seems a strange thing to credit first. https://tale.fyi/tell says you need to sign in to tell your own story, but there doesn't seem to be a…

added a link to sign in on https://tale.fyi/tell

good catch, thanks

Re: Show HN: tale.fyi, we deserve a home for fiction

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Post by crtasm »

mplanchard wrote: post #6

Unrelated, but all I want is a letterboxd for books, with the light social aspect, the ability to log a read multiple times, and with a great interface. I read my hope for this into the title of this post, unfortunately.

I'm not logged in to https://hardcover.app/ right now, perhaps someone can confirm if it allows logging multiple reads.

Re: Show HN: tale.fyi, we deserve a home for fiction

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Post by p-e-w »

samuelcole wrote: post #11
wrsh07 wrote: post #4

This is great! I would love an explicit "set bookmark to here" button if I scroll up from the high watermark I discovered the reset, but it took a minute and I expect given the way I read being able to explicitly walk the high watermark back a bit would be nice (maybe that's doable if you select text? I didn't try!) The format is nice, I love standard ebooks I opened Moby Dick but didn't see how to listen to it on my…

moby dick didn't align properly, there's a confidence gate it didn't pass. i know, it makes me sad too, i'll keep working on it this is the list of everything: https://tale.fyi/audiobooks librivox is all human volunteers, so i think it makes a difference from eleven labs, but i might add a fallback to ai readings for folks who want that reset feedback noted!

> moby dick didn't align properly, there's a confidence gate it didn't pass.

What does this mean?

Re: Show HN: tale.fyi, we deserve a home for fiction

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Post by bwb »

mplanchard wrote: post #6

Unrelated, but all I want is a letterboxd for books, with the light social aspect, the ability to log a read multiple times, and with a great interface. I read my hope for this into the title of this post, unfortunately.

I'm building this -> https://building.bookdna.com/roadmap/

If you want to join the beta, just email me at ben@bookdna.com. We've got about 100 people using it right now.

We are working on goodreads/storygraph imports, and then adding folders. It already supports multiple reads and more.

Re: Show HN: tale.fyi, we deserve a home for fiction

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Post by bwb »

crtasm wrote: post #14
mplanchard wrote: post #6

Unrelated, but all I want is a letterboxd for books, with the light social aspect, the ability to log a read multiple times, and with a great interface. I read my hope for this into the title of this post, unfortunately.

I'm not logged in to https://hardcover.app/ right now, perhaps someone can confirm if it allows logging multiple reads.

Hardcover definitely supports multiple reads. I've got two in mine right now.

Re: Show HN: tale.fyi, we deserve a home for fiction

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Post by samuelcole »

p-e-w wrote: post #16
samuelcole wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

moby dick didn't align properly, there's a confidence gate it didn't pass. i know, it makes me sad too, i'll keep working on it this is the list of everything: https://tale.fyi/audiobooks librivox is all human volunteers, so i think it makes a difference from eleven labs, but i might add a fallback to ai readings for folks who want that reset feedback noted!

> moby dick didn't align properly, there's a confidence gate it didn't pass. What does this mean?

well! (i've been waiting for someone to ask ha)

when i first knew i wanted to align audio to text, i reached for aeneas, which was built for this exact problem/product (https://www.readbeyond.it/aeneas/)

however, it drifted by hundreds of seconds deep into chapters and emits no confidence signal, so i couldn't eval it cleanly

so i switched to a neural acoustic model trained with ctc (meta's massively multilingual speech aligner, it ships inside torchaudio): it outputs a probability for each character at every frame of audio, and viterbi decoding finds the most probable path that spells exactly our text, with a per-word probability

that probability is the gate: a book ships read-along only if its median confidence and coverage clear a bar. moby dick's didn't, so it's honestly text-only

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