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Immortalin··on Show HN: Auditus – Ebook to Audiobook Conversion
Currently the text is run through a sentence segmented before conversion
Immortalin··on Show HN: Auditus – Ebook to Audiobook Conversion
Update: Server's overloaded right now. Any conversion that has not been sent will be delivered by end of tomorrow.
Immortalin··on Show HN: Auditus – Ebook to Audiobook Conversion
Please email me the file, it should not be more than 15 min but the server's rather overloaded right now
Immortalin··on Show HN: Auditus – Ebook to Audiobook Conversion
AWS Polly
Immortalin··on Show HN: Auditus – Ebook to Audiobook Conversion
Try again?
Immortalin··on Show HN: Auditus – Ebook to Audiobook Conversion
Planned :)
Immortalin··on Show HN: Auditus – Ebook to Audiobook Conversion
Here's a human narrated sample for comparison: https://www.audiobooks.com/audiobook/accelerando/210129
Immortalin··on Show HN: Auditus – Ebook to Audiobook Conversion
Each conversion costs a couple dollars depending on length - cheaper than most audiobooks at the expense of human realism. You can listen to a sample of a human read version of accelerando: https://www.audiobooks.com/audiobook/accelerando/210129

The one generated by auditus is too smooth, slightly unnatural

Immortalin··on Show HN: Auditus – Ebook to Audiobook Conversion
Funnily enough, I did look into it: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP4mlh8yZqOaEf0x7FKncIw

Have not quite gotten the whole video thing working yet

Immortalin··on Show HN: Auditus – Ebook to Audiobook Conversion
Also, you need to select the file type on the left, currently epub is the only option but PDF support is planned soon.
Immortalin··on Show HN: Auditus – Ebook to Audiobook Conversion
Send me the epub and I will convert it for free! Thanks for catching the bug, will look into it soon.
Immortalin··on Show HN: Auditus – Ebook to Audiobook Conversion
Send me the epub and I will convert it for free! Thanks for catching the bug, will look into it soon. Edit: Was the epub in English?
Immortalin··on Show HN: Auditus – Ebook to Audiobook Conversion
If you have any suggestions do let me know! I am currently working on adding support for PDF files, also considering adding a support for the new Google Wavenet speech synthesis but it is much more expensive (about 4x the cost) :(
Immortalin··on Show HN: Auditus – Ebook to Audiobook Conversion
Hi! I built this to have an easier way to convert ebooks to audiobooks! The backend is powered by AWS Polly. If you have any feedback or feature requests, please feel free to drop me an email at <last 3 characters of username> @ <myusername>.com
Immortalin··on Google Cloud Text-To-Speech Powered by DeepMind WaveNet Technology
Shameless plug: https://auditus.cc

Uses Amazon Polly

Immortalin··on Gallery of programming UIs
Shameless plug: https://medium.com/@kloudtrader/private-beta-and-kloudtrader...

Trying to build a better programming environment and platform for algorithmic trading

http://KloudTrader.com

Immortalin··on Ask HN: Are there any studies about book reading retention rates vs. audiobooks?
Shameless Plug: https://auditus.cc

You can easily convert a couple and run some A/B tests

Immortalin··on Ask HN: How has your experience with AWS Lambda been?
The idea looks good on paper but in practice it is pretty pricey and impractical. You get free sandboxing, scaling, and stateless deployment out of the box but are charged by the second. It's really optimized for simple web apps (or microservices) - think backend for form processing or resizing a picture. Anything moderately complex e.g. python scientific software is impossible due to the 50MB compressed app size limit (including all your dependencies), if your app takes more than a couple seconds of compute time, it will burn a hole in your pocket.

Usage: Algorithmic trading, Alexa voice apps, Brokerage price matching

http://KloudTrader.com

Immortalin··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2018)
:D
Immortalin··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2018)
Working on it. Thanks for pointing it out!
Immortalin··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2018)
KloudTrader | Senior/Junior/Fullstack Software Engineer | Rails, Python scientific software, JavaScript | REMOTE | OPTIONAL INTERN, Full-time

KloudTrader's mission is to make algorithmic trading accessible to traders without a software engineering background through visual programming languages; DIY Roboadvisors. We are an early stage startup willing to offer significant equity. Email us at jobs at <company name>.com

http://Kloudtrader.com

Also offering unpaid internships for those who are interested :)

Immortalin··on Google claims near-human accuracy at imitating a person speaking from text
I use Polly for ebook to audiobook conversion and they work pretty well for most stuff - not completely natural by any means but more than sufficient for casual listening.

https://auditus.cc

Immortalin··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2017)
KloudTrader | Senior/Junior/Fullstack Software Engineer, VP of Engineering | Rails, Python scientific software, JavaScript | REMOTE | OPTIONAL INTERN, Full-time

KloudTrader's mission is to make algorithmic trading accessible to traders without a software engineering background through visual programming languages. We are an early stage startup willing to offer significant equity. Email us at jobs at <company name>.com

http://Kloudtrader.com

Also offering unpaid internships for those who are interested :)

Immortalin··on Network Neuroscience Theory of Human Intelligence
like capsules?
Immortalin··on Show HN: Pam M – Metal Additive Manufacturing
Price?
Immortalin··on Show HN: Lightmod, an all-in-one tool for full stack Clojure
Very impressive as usual Zach!
Immortalin··on Reasonably Secure Computing in the Decentralized World
This is very interesting! At Praecantatio, we are actually working on something similar, though instead of using blockchains, we run ours like an ad network. If anyone is interested on working on distributed computing, drop me an email. Email's in profile!

http://praecantatio.ai

Immortalin··on Ask HN: Are there drawing tool plugins to be used within forums?
Try Minipaint: https://github.com/viliusle/miniPaint

See this for example: https://github.com/Immortalin/Greeting-Card-Creator

Immortalin··on A Test of Police Body Cameras Defies Expectations
Edit: Can someone explain why this comment is being downvoted?
Immortalin··on Show HN: Lua Digest October Issue
Subscribe here: http://luadigest.immortalin.com
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