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Linux Voice

206 points by hepha1979 13y ago

muppetman 13y ago
The model is similar to lwn.net, where if you're a sub you get the great stuff straight away, if you're not you get it a week later. Which has always appealed to me. This seems to be similar to that, with the huge difference that the article is then "freed" totally after 9 months. Great idea, I'll sign up for this.
masmullin 13y ago
What was the old Linux magazine, and why did these guys leave?
- Doctor_Fegg 13y ago
  Linux Format. "Top-down meddling" was cited in this story: http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/future-staff-fed-top-down-meddling-crowdfunded-bid-launch-rival-linux-magazine http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/future-staff-fed-top-down-medd... (I used to freelance for Future years ago, and the standing joke was that, at the time, all their magazines were "something-or-other Format". When they launched a cross-stitch magazine, we were greatly disappointed it wasn't called Cross-Stitch Format.)
  - shiven 13y ago
    Oh my! Please tell me the entire magazine was actually made of Cross-Stitched pages!!! I would so like a copy. Frame a few of the good ones, use the rest as table-mats and coasters :)
- benev 13y ago
  The old magazine was Linux Format. We left because we were prevented from making the magazine as good as it could be by layers of management that didn't understand (or care about) Linux or our target audience.
whiskers 13y ago
Andrew came to see us the other day and chat about their vision for Linux Voice. They know what they are doing and all have a solid publishing background so we can't wait to see how it turns out. It's a really refreshing approach and they are committed to giving back to the FOSS community from the profits generated by it. I also really like that they plan to release the content for other uses after a brief embargo.
adamb_ 13y ago
Not taking away from this announcement, but from the title I was hoping this was a new voice-command/NLP library for the raspberry pi..
- jkldotio 13y ago
  When I saw the headline I was hoping the same, CMU Sphinx and some of the others are well behind the commercial offerings. Microsoft and Cambridge hold some key patents I believe, it would be interesting to see what deep neural nets/RBMs might offer as an alternative. Not sure what Ubuntu is using or going to use for their mobile OS. I would love to hear from any HN experts with up to date information in this space.
- benev 13y ago
  The google speech API is the best that I've been able to get working on the Pi [1]. It needs a network connection though. [1] http://mikepultz.com/2011/03/accessing-google-speech-api-chrome-11/ http://mikepultz.com/2011/03/accessing-google-speech-api-chr...
sophacles 13y ago
I like this model, and hope the magazine catches on. Hopefully it will help provide one more step in figuring out how to help compensate people who do FOSS for their efforts. Vaguely related: A thought I've been having lately is that instead of micro payments being a direct monetary thing, why not team up with ISPs, hosting providers, etc, and have an organization a "points" system similar to loyalty programs. Points can then be used to provide a discounts on hosting and bandwidth, and distributed both individually by people and by projects to contributors. This helps reduce some of the friction in transactions...
vegasbrianc 13y ago
Very interesting model. I am all for anything Linux and really hope this model works for them.
tteam 13y ago
Andrew is a great guy. They identified the potential of Tonido Personal Cloud much before the market and published a review about it. The good part is without expecting anything in return. We will support their efforts.
mikegioia 13y ago
This is awesome. I noticed the digital and print price was about the same and saw this in the FAQ: Q. Will you create an interactive HTML 5/Ubuntu/Android/iOS/Windows 8 appfor digital magazine delivery? A. We will get our magazine onto digital storefronts straight away. And we have ambitious plans for our own app - one where our community becomes part of the editorial. But to start with, we need to focus on getting our new magazine out of our heads and into your hands. We’ll then be able to invest in our other ideas. It would be really cool if they put out a nice interactive html5 app for viewing the digital version, and then open sourced it for the readers to make better (and for other magazines to use).
- benev 13y ago
  That's the plan (including open sourcing the app). We've just got to get the magazine up and running first.
  - imdsm 13y ago
    How long do you think until it's available to buy? I like the idea, but I'm impatient. I'd buy it tonight if I could.
    - benev 13y ago
      Well you can buy it tonight on indiegogo [1]. We expect to be in the shops in the uk in February 2014 (and we'll ship physical or digital copies to the rest of the world then). We hope to be in newsagents and book stores world wide not long after that, but it will depend on our distributors. [1] http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/linux-voice http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/linux-voice
  - girvo 13y ago
    Holy heck that's awesome. Well done.
- dspillett 13y ago
  > I noticed the digital and print price was about the same The price is the same, but for a different period. The digital subscription is 35ukp for 12 months, and UK physical subscription is also 35ukp but only covers 6 months.
InCodeMe 13y ago
Nice!
girvo 13y ago
Oh heck yes. If the content is up my alley, I'm totally in. Sure beats reading omgubuntu every day ;)
fprotthetarball 13y ago
How does the Indiegogo pricing compare to waiting for it to launch and subscribing at that time?

206 points by hepha1979 13y ago

The model is similar to lwn.net, where if you're a sub you get the great stuff straight away, if you're not you get it a week later. Which has always appealed to me. This seems to be similar to that, with the huge difference that the article is then "freed" totally after 9 months. Great idea, I'll sign up for this.

masmullin 13y ago

What was the old Linux magazine, and why did these guys leave?

Doctor_Fegg 13y ago
Linux Format. "Top-down meddling" was cited in this story: http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/future-staff-fed-top-down-meddling-crowdfunded-bid-launch-rival-linux-magazine http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/future-staff-fed-top-down-medd... (I used to freelance for Future years ago, and the standing joke was that, at the time, all their magazines were "something-or-other Format". When they launched a cross-stitch magazine, we were greatly disappointed it wasn't called Cross-Stitch Format.)
- shiven 13y ago
  Oh my! Please tell me the entire magazine was actually made of Cross-Stitched pages!!! I would so like a copy. Frame a few of the good ones, use the rest as table-mats and coasters :)
benev 13y ago
The old magazine was Linux Format. We left because we were prevented from making the magazine as good as it could be by layers of management that didn't understand (or care about) Linux or our target audience.

whiskers 13y ago

Andrew came to see us the other day and chat about their vision for Linux Voice. They know what they are doing and all have a solid publishing background so we can't wait to see how it turns out. It's a really refreshing approach and they are committed to giving back to the FOSS community from the profits generated by it. I also really like that they plan to release the content for other uses after a brief embargo.

adamb_ 13y ago

Not taking away from this announcement, but from the title I was hoping this was a new voice-command/NLP library for the raspberry pi..

jkldotio 13y ago
When I saw the headline I was hoping the same, CMU Sphinx and some of the others are well behind the commercial offerings. Microsoft and Cambridge hold some key patents I believe, it would be interesting to see what deep neural nets/RBMs might offer as an alternative. Not sure what Ubuntu is using or going to use for their mobile OS. I would love to hear from any HN experts with up to date information in this space.
benev 13y ago
The google speech API is the best that I've been able to get working on the Pi [1]. It needs a network connection though. [1] http://mikepultz.com/2011/03/accessing-google-speech-api-chrome-11/ http://mikepultz.com/2011/03/accessing-google-speech-api-chr...

sophacles 13y ago

I like this model, and hope the magazine catches on. Hopefully it will help provide one more step in figuring out how to help compensate people who do FOSS for their efforts. Vaguely related: A thought I've been having lately is that instead of micro payments being a direct monetary thing, why not team up with ISPs, hosting providers, etc, and have an organization a "points" system similar to loyalty programs. Points can then be used to provide a discounts on hosting and bandwidth, and distributed both individually by people and by projects to contributors. This helps reduce some of the friction in transactions...

vegasbrianc 13y ago

Very interesting model. I am all for anything Linux and really hope this model works for them.

tteam 13y ago

Andrew is a great guy. They identified the potential of Tonido Personal Cloud much before the market and published a review about it. The good part is without expecting anything in return. We will support their efforts.

mikegioia 13y ago

This is awesome. I noticed the digital and print price was about the same and saw this in the FAQ: Q. Will you create an interactive HTML 5/Ubuntu/Android/iOS/Windows 8 appfor digital magazine delivery? A. We will get our magazine onto digital storefronts straight away. And we have ambitious plans for our own app - one where our community becomes part of the editorial. But to start with, we need to focus on getting our new magazine out of our heads and into your hands. We’ll then be able to invest in our other ideas. It would be really cool if they put out a nice interactive html5 app for viewing the digital version, and then open sourced it for the readers to make better (and for other magazines to use).

benev 13y ago
That's the plan (including open sourcing the app). We've just got to get the magazine up and running first.
- imdsm 13y ago
  How long do you think until it's available to buy? I like the idea, but I'm impatient. I'd buy it tonight if I could.
  - benev 13y ago
    Well you can buy it tonight on indiegogo [1]. We expect to be in the shops in the uk in February 2014 (and we'll ship physical or digital copies to the rest of the world then). We hope to be in newsagents and book stores world wide not long after that, but it will depend on our distributors. [1] http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/linux-voice http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/linux-voice
- girvo 13y ago
  Holy heck that's awesome. Well done.
dspillett 13y ago
> I noticed the digital and print price was about the same The price is the same, but for a different period. The digital subscription is 35ukp for 12 months, and UK physical subscription is also 35ukp but only covers 6 months.

InCodeMe 13y ago

Nice!

girvo 13y ago

Oh heck yes. If the content is up my alley, I'm totally in. Sure beats reading omgubuntu every day ;)

fprotthetarball 13y ago

How does the Indiegogo pricing compare to waiting for it to launch and subscribing at that time?