by freedomben
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- I really love librivox for what they've done and their mission, so please don't interpret this as a criticism. It simply is what it is, and I appreciate all the effort people have graciously donated to make life better and information more accessible for their fellow humans.
That said, the vast majority of the recordings from Librivox I've listened to are pretty bad. There are some narrators that are decent, but many are borderline unlistenable. For those, an AI voice narrator would be much better, even with the current state of TTS. Is anybody working on an effort to produce these works with an AI voice?
by disambiguation
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- Semi off topic, but i always thought it would be cool if there was a kind of multiplayer for ebooks - threads and notes in the margins similar to how dark souls lets you write brief hints for other players that you can hide around the game world.
Its impractical due to the technical and legal challenges, but it would be neat to see the thoughts of other readers page by page.
- This is really cool. Do they by chance offer a rate limited rsync access to archive everything? Asking in the event my small community gets cut off during an economic collapse. If so I would also set up a public rsync mirror.
- Coincidentally, I posted a somewhat related Show HN yesterday:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45657083
Crossover is that some of what we’ve done is curate some of the best librivox titles and enhance their audio quality.
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