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   by smoores 3y ago

   Thanks, I'm so glad folks seem to like it! Agreed, I remain astonished how limited support is for synced narration (forget non-DRM; really only Amazon even provides this feature!). It's totally changed how I consume books. Hopeful
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   by smoores 3y ago

   It's on the list! https://gitlab.com/smoores/storyteller/-/issues/9
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   by smoores 3y ago

   > I've started listening to audiobooks on my commute, but I read at night. This is basically exactly why I started down this road over two years ago. I really wanted to be able to switch back and forth between my audiobooks and thei
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   by smoores 3y ago

   Hello! syncabook is awesome, and indeed Storyteller does take "the opposite" approach when it comes to forced alignment. Others have linked to the docs, where I go into detail about the syncing algorithm, but at a high level: Stor
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   by smoores 3y ago

   That's correct; it requires the ability to analyze the actual contents of the ebook and audiobook, so they can't be locked down with DRM. This is unfortunately pretty limiting, but at least for audiobooks, online stores like libro
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   by smoores 3y ago

   As others have said, you provide the audiobook (which could technically be something you generated yourself with TTS!) and Storyteller syncs it. However, I've added an issue on GitLab to investigate building TTS directly into Storytell
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   by smoores 3y ago

   This is true, but it really limits the ability to highlight the current sentence visually while it's being read, which is great for language learning and for reducing cognitive load. I actually spent a lot of time trying to get the tim
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   by smoores 3y ago

   Thanks! Server-side position syncing and integration with KOReader are both on the roadmap, actually; you're not the first one to bring this up!
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   Show HN: An open-source, self-hostable synced narration platform for ebooks(smoores.gitlab.io)

   338 points by smoores 3y ago|67 comments
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    Build Your Own: React, ProseMirror, and Redux(nytimes.github.io)

    3 points by smoores 4y ago|1 comments
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    by smoores 4y ago

    Hello! I'm a software engineer on the Oak team at the New York Times (Oak is the name of the collaborative text editor that the newsroom uses to write the stories that go on nytimes.com). Last year, while working on Oak, we decided to