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Audio book piracy is gonna skyrocket when you can generate a pleasant track from text.
by pharrlax 10y ago
Audio book piracy is gonna skyrocket when you can generate a pleasant track from text.
- est 10y agoYou can model your face and your voice in future RPG games.
- thom 10y agoI just think there are huge opportunities for new types of UI once it works. Any time I'm out and about with headphones, I want something like a custom radio station, mixing up my music and podcasts, dictating messages and highlights from social media or news sites I like. I'd even accept short adverts if it was genuinely relevant and location aware. Even when I'm not travelling, I suspect it'd be a cool interface to have at work. If something can check in from time to time between music tracks, giving me a quick run down of anything interesting that's happening (even plugins for the build server etc), it will cut down on my temptation to open it up in a browser tab. I've wanted to build this app just for myself for years, but it's only very recently that it seems the state of the art is close enough for it to be palatable to users.
- Someone 10y agoHuh? I would think, if anything, it would go down if, as an alternative to pirating an audio book, one can download the text from Gutenberg.org or pirate the _text_, and generate a decent audio book from it.
- idle_zealot 10y agoI think that's what parent meant, it was just phrased oddly.
- pharrlax 10y agoTrue, technically it's not "audiobook piracy", but I used that as shorthand for recording and distributing an audio version of a written book, which courts will surely find to be a form of piracy.