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by kolchinski 11d ago
I read Guns, Germs and Steel recently and loved it. After finishing it, I was wondering how well the theses had held up in the time since it was published and did some research, and seems like most (though not all) of the major points have
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Our first impressions of the GPT-Live-1 API for voice agents(thunderphone.com)
1 points by kolchinski 12d ago|1 comments
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Show HN: A free phone number that live-interprets calls between 47 languages(translatemycall.com)
1 points by kolchinski 24d ago|0 comments
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Show HN: ThunderPhone v2 – a new architecture for voice AI(thunderphone.com)
4 points by kolchinski 1mo ago|0 comments
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by kolchinski 1y ago
It's very possible to get campsites but you do need to pounce right when they open up, especially in busier times of year - https://www.nps.gov/yose/planyourvisit/camping.htm I and many of my friends regularl
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by kolchinski 1y ago
Hah hopefully not, if this takes off we'll be filtering for illegal/immoral use! Outbound AI calling is actually illegal although widely done :(
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Show HN: Automate phone calls with AI for 2 cents a minute(thunderphone.com)
2 points by kolchinski 1y ago|3 comments
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Show HN: TalkToSales makes websites voice-controlled(talktosales.com)
2 points by kolchinski 1y ago|0 comments
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by kolchinski 2y ago
Excited to be able to use this, the demo was really impressive!
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by kolchinski 2y ago
Oh yeah agreed that the change in prices doesn't prove it's a scam, my thought was more along the lines of - when crypto insiders who have been talking up crypto as valuable/important because it's independent of the gove
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The “strategic reserve” exposes crypto as the scam it always was(alexkolchinski.com)
131 points by kolchinski 2y ago|140 comments
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by kolchinski 2y ago
Thanks yep got it working, really great stuff!!
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by kolchinski 2y ago
Hey Ben, this looks great, but I'm getting a "Rate Limit Exceeded" error, anything to be done about that?
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Show HN: TranslateMyCall.com, an AI interpreter for phone calls(translatemycall.com)
3 points by kolchinski 2y ago|0 comments
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by kolchinski 3y ago
Definitely, but none of my obvious suspects from my immediate network are looking/a good fit. A post like this is both to find people I don't know who might be a good fit as well as to surface this to people I do know but that I
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Tell HN: I'm looking for a cofounder (B2B workflow automation)
1 points by kolchinski 3y ago|3 comments
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by kolchinski 3y ago
I'd love to chat as well if you've still got bandwidth — I'm at alex@kolch.in Thanks, appreciate it!
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by kolchinski 3y ago
Also Azure actually! Yeah for a sentence or two the onboard OCR usually gets it right, but if you’re listening to a few pages at a time there are almost always a bunch of errors and it gets pretty exasperating to listen to.
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by kolchinski 3y ago
Check out Speechify and NaturalReader, IIRC they’re two of the most popular apps for that use case and I remember their voices were pretty solid.
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by kolchinski 3y ago
Just took a look, their lower-quality model is almost exactly the same price as Azure TTS, and the quality is similar. Thanks for the pointer.
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by kolchinski 3y ago
Makes sense, one other interesting use case would be looping in translation into the middle of the pipeline so that you could scan a book in a language you don't speak and have it read to you in a language you do speak.
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by kolchinski 3y ago
Yes this is a very valid point, on a technical level it's definitely a 2-step thing. From a product perspective I'm framing it as a "this app reads books out loud to you" but if I start hearing about people using it to g
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by kolchinski 3y ago
Yeah I (and my fiancée) are also Audible users — this app is mostly for cases where an audiobook or even e-book don't exist, like for older books you might get from a used bookstore or library. I'd prefer to set the price point lo
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by kolchinski 3y ago
iOS has pretty decent built-in OCR and TTS but give it a try on a book page if you're curious — unfortunately the OCR makes a lot of mistakes (as well as including footnotes etc.) and the TTS is still pretty robotic. I do hope and expe
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by kolchinski 3y ago
All languages will be tough but adding common ones that are already supported by off-the-shelf OCR, TTS, and LLMs is definitely doable; do you have any that you're most keen on?
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by kolchinski 3y ago
Yes, their quality is great but the cost is astronomical — I pay about $8 in Azure TTS bills alone for TTS-ing a 500-page book (what you can scan per month with a $10 subscription), whereas Eleven Labs would be about $100 for the same lengt
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by kolchinski 3y ago
It's Azure's TTS API — I'm using four of their voices.
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by kolchinski 3y ago
Good idea thanks, let me figure out how to do that.
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by kolchinski 3y ago
Yes, true (for now) — which language(s) are you looking for? The APIs I'm using are mostly multilingual so it'd be doable to extend to other languages.
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Show HN: ReadToMe (iOS) turns paper books into audio(readtome-app.com)
74 points by kolchinski 3y ago|47 comments

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