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11mo ago
This is what I think AI thrive at. But I'm not sure if its real value or not. We all have repos with fairly clean git history and repos with as the author said "fixes" and "updates". If there was any value in havi
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11mo ago
I'm still working on WithAudio ( https://desktop.with.audio ). A one time payment Text To Speech Desktop App. Because I think everything doesn't have to be a subscription. In October I finished the PDF parser. It was a b
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11mo ago
I the k in cases like this we (researchers) see what their looking for to see.
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11mo ago
I'm still working on WithAudio ( https://desktop.with.audio ). A one time payment Text To Speech Desktop App. Because I think everything doesn't have to be a subscription. In October I finished the PDF parser. It was a b
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1y ago
I don't think its worth it, but lets say I did it, what if others that I depend on dont do it? I still won't be fully functional and only one of us have spent a bunch of money.
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1y ago
Currently working on the web reader of WithAudio. Just add with.audio/ to begining of a public URL and get the text and audio in your browser. It runs the TTS in your browser so its free and unlimited. You can read more about it and wa
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Show HN: On-Device TTS with Synchronized Text Highlighting in the Browser
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1y ago
While the quality of what I'm seeing is very nice for AI generated content (I still can't believe it) but the fact thay they are mostly showing short clips and not a long connected consistent video makes it less impressive.
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1y ago
WithAudio a one-time payment, desktop text-to-speech app that helps users read better by highlighting text as it's spoken. Current Challenges: Technical: It's difficult to consistently parse text from various document formats. The
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1y ago
Just imagine you are investigating a bug and everyone is trying to express their opnion on whose fault is this. What happened to not having a blaming culture?
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1y ago
I think they enough unnecessary content in universities that there be room for both DSA and testing.
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1y ago
I’ve been working on https://with.audio which is a local app. I think there should be way more local apps with sync capabilities. I haven’t finished the sync feature in WithAudio and you have very nice ideas there. Specially the
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1y ago
When it comes to Information Retrieval, you can get anything between links to existing documents or generated content based on those processed information. I agree that the second one is really powerfuly and just amazing and seemilngly usef
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1y ago
- Do I relaly get "Unlimited documents" for $14.99? Or there is a an actual limit preventing me from converting, like 10 Million characters? - Why should one use this and not Speehify? Also, I just uploaded a PDF and its reading t
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1y ago
I initially didn’t remember but as soon as he started writing I remembered him. He is the reason I write in all caps on the paper. I watched his AI course like 10 years ago or so and learned a lot! I thought he looked familiar but just bec
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1y ago
Came here to say this. I’m using Microsoft Clarity and I’m very happy with it. Maybe less known tools have a better chance bypassing AdBlockers?
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1y ago
I'm Working on WithAudio https://desktop.with.audio A one time payment - text to speech app with text highlighting and exporting audio capabilities. I mostly use it as an enhanced reading solution because helps me read bet
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1y ago
Does apple allow you to to sell both through App Store and direct through another payment echo system? I thought they are more strict than that. https://menial.co.uk/base/buy/
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1y ago
can't a guy just create something anymore? :D They have to have a business model or a grand plan ?
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1y ago
I don't think having new search engines would be a challenge. The problem is attracting new users and making them realize there is benefit it diversifying what they use. There are already other search engines but the majority still use
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1y ago
If this works as you say in iOS you would be my new hero! Joined the wait list, would be happy to be part of any test you like to run.
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1y ago
It’s wild seeing AIs ace IQ tests so quickly. But those tests already have cultural bias baked in and if the models are also overfitting to them, that’s bias squared. Still, the pace of progress is hard to ignore.
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1y ago
I was happy being absolutely right and now I keep noticing that constantly.
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1y ago
this is great. one suggestion, it would be nice if I can filter based on subscriptions vs. one time payments.
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1y ago
I'm obsessed with "simultaneously read the book and listen to it". Thats why I built WithAudio. You can checkout the demo here: https://desktop.with.audio/reader-demo I'd love to hear any feedback you h
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1y ago
amazing! can't wait to integrate it into https://desktop.with.audio I'm already using KokorosTTS without a GPU. It works fairly well on Apple Silicon. Foundational tools like this open up the possiblity of one-time pa
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1y ago
Thanks I'm using https://huggingface.co/spaces/hexgrad/Kokoro-TTS
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1y ago
"WithAudio", a text to speech solution for Desktop. https://desktop.with.audio The most important features (for me) are: One Time Payment and 100% local and private. I don't send any data to any server. Just enoug
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1y ago
https://www.helcim.com/ and https://www.koho.ca/ come to mind as ell but didn’t see anyone mention them.
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1y ago
Sadly not at the moment. I need some help to confirm other languages as I only understand English.
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