I like the idea of having #papers read out to me using #texttospeech https://papertime.app/ It's a little rough around the edges, but really not bad! I am actually thinking this could be great for a new #rss #feed #reader to convert #text to #audio !
@barray on Fri Jul 30 16:32:43 UTC 2021 said: &eStill have no real answer to the #background #music for the #coffeespace #texttospeech #audio ... I thought about perhaps using some #procedural music, but it can be not so great to listen to, especially with #lowquality audio #encoding parameters. Looking at #ffmpeg this is currently #twochannel (didn't make a difference), 22050 sampling frequency and 40k #bitrate - derived through experimentation. There might not really be an acceptable solution to this problem...When I created the new #background #music for the #coffeespace #texttospeech #audio that reads articles, I never thought that I would end up writing an article longer than 45 minutes of reading. I would suggest that the current article is about half way complete from where it will be - that's really quite considerable. This is getting into the #book territory - some books are not this long. Pretty impressive if I don't say so myself.
@barray on Fri Jul 30 16:19:12 UTC 2021 said: &eWhen I created the new #background #music for the #coffeespace #texttospeech #audio that reads articles, I never thought that I would end up writing an article longer than 45 minutes of reading. I would suggest that the current article is about half way complete from where it will be - that's really quite considerable. This is getting into the #book territory - some books are not this long. Pretty impressive if I don't say so myself.The latest article I'm working on for #coffeespace is so long that even formatting it has become a *massive* undertaking in terms of time. It's an article about the #eu and the #farright - I hope to be able to #publish it some time today.