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aedocw commented on That Secret Service SIM farm story is bogus cybersect.substack.com/p/... · Posted by u/sixhobbits

aedocw · 3 months ago

There is a lawyer (Alec Karakatsanis) who has been writing about police driven propaganda for years. His recent book "Copaganda" is fantastic. He carefully breaks down how major papers (NYT is chief among them) create stories that fit a narrative by using very one-sided sources. Like an article on crime written in bad faith where the only people quotes are police, police consultants, and ex-police.

It's a really good book, I wish more people were aware of it and read it.

aedocw commented on Take a look at Traefik, even if you don't use containers j6b72.de/article/why-you-... · Posted by u/q2loyp

beestripes · 2 years ago

Why traefik over nginx for my modest needs, a couple docker hosts and a few dozen containers. I use https://github.com/NginxProxyManager/nginx-proxy-manager, would traefik provide a benefit on such a small scale?

aedocw · 2 years ago

I think https://github.com/caddyserver is the best option here. Automatic handling of SSL certs, it's incredibly lightweight, and has super clear config syntax.

aedocw commented on OpenVoice: Versatile instant voice cloning research.myshell.ai/open-... · Posted by u/ulrischa

causi · 2 years ago

We're so close to me being able to open a program, feed in an epub, and get a near-human level audiobook out of it. I'm so excited.

aedocw · 2 years ago

Give https://github.com/aedocw/epub2tts a look, the latest update enables use of MS Edge cloud-based TTS so you don't need a local GPU and the quality is excellent.

aedocw commented on Stashpad launches Google Docs alternative you can use without any login techcrunch.com/2024/03/13... · Posted by u/yuvalhazaz

rigid · 2 years ago

I loved etherpad but it was a pain to host back then.

I'd love to have something similar that's lightweight and not serverside node.js

aedocw · 2 years ago

Take a look at https://github.com/ekzhang/rustpad

aedocw commented on The seedy underbelly of the life coaching industry bbc.com/worklife/article/... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar

aedocw · 2 years ago

The best part about this discussion is seeing all the people pop up to defend the money (sometimes fantastic amounts) they have spent on their business/executive coach.

aedocw commented on Show HN: An open-source, self-hostable synced narration platform for ebooks smoores.gitlab.io/storyte... · Posted by u/smoores

vagrantJin · 2 years ago

I've thought about exactly this a few years back but lacked the technical skills to implement it. there are some great books out there as you mentioned, but even worse are great books with mediocre narration/production. eg, A Song of Ice and Fire on Audible is absolutely horrid. The Martian by Andy Weir is fantastic. Can I transplant Will wheaton or Greg Tremblay into GOT? Can I have multiple characters narrated by different voices?

please revisit it if you can.

aedocw · 2 years ago

You can do this today, though you would definitely be breaking copyright (you need to strip the DRM from the epub), and if you're cloning someone's voice without their permission you're probably breaking some more laws. You're pretty safe though assuming you don't distribute it or try to make money.

Check out https://github.com/aedocw/epub2tts for creating an audiobook from epub. Take a look in the utils directory for notes about fine-tuning a voice clone. I can tell you I've done some voices that are close enough to the original to be pretty shocking.

Feel free to get in touch if you have any questions, it's pretty fun making your own audiobooks with the reader of your choice!

aedocw commented on Spotify's push into audiobooks sparks concern among authors bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/atlasunshrugged

mg · 2 years ago

How far away are we from AI reading books so well that everybody who has the book in text form automatically has it in audio form, because they can just turn it into audio via a multitude of AI text to speech networks?

By the way, I would love a service where I could listen to HN. Play the first title and then wait for me to hit the space bar to play the next. Highlight the one I just heard, so when I'm interested int a submission, I have it right in front of me.

aedocw · 2 years ago

I wrote https://github.com/aedocw/epub2tts and the quality is pretty phenomenal if you use XTTS for the voice generation. It's really excellent, but requires the book not have DRM.

aedocw commented on The Project Gutenberg Open Audiobook Collection marhamilresearch4.blob.co... · Posted by u/isbn

kwerk · 2 years ago

Does this handle text cleanup? Eg replace Roman numerals so they aren’t read literally etc? May need to dust off my Python for a Pr if not

aedocw · 2 years ago

It does not handle that. A PR to replace stuff like that would be fantastic, I'd love it - please do!

aedocw commented on The Project Gutenberg Open Audiobook Collection marhamilresearch4.blob.co... · Posted by u/isbn

aedocw · 2 years ago

I put together a script to read epub books using Coqui TTS and I think the results are not far off from this. It's super quick if you've got a GPU, but it's reasonable too if it's just using CPU to do the text to speech.

https://github.com/aedocw/epub2tts