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Show HN: Kaskade – A text user interface for Kafka
Show HN: Kaskade – A text user interface for Kafka
Show HN: Kaskade – A text user interface for Kafka
Show HN: I generated 70k audiobooks with OpenAI Text-to-Speech
Hey HN. I’m Ivan, hacker from Ukraine.<p>For about a year, I was working on Listenly — an app to listen to text content with OpenAI's natural-sounding text-to-speech model.<p>At some moment, I realized that it would be cool to take all the public domain e-books and create audio versions for them.
So I did it... kind-of.<p>It would cost an immense amount of money to generate all the audio right away (OpenAI TTS costs approximately $0.84/hour of audio; 11labs, for comparison, is 10 times more expensive).
So, I took a more gradual approach.<p>I took all the metadata from the Project Gutenberg catalog (it's about 70GB of dirty XML), cleaned it, put it into my database, and created a browsable catalog.
When the first user visits a book page on Listenly, I download the full text of the book, save it in my cloud storage, and calculate the price for audio generation based on the book's length. Then, if the user decides to purchase it, we generate the audio.<p>I know it’s not perfect.<p>I've burned out a couple of times already while doing it.<p>But still, I need to show it to the world. And I’ll be glad to hear your feedback.<p>Peace.
Show HN: I generated 70k audiobooks with OpenAI Text-to-Speech
Hey HN. I’m Ivan, hacker from Ukraine.<p>For about a year, I was working on Listenly — an app to listen to text content with OpenAI's natural-sounding text-to-speech model.<p>At some moment, I realized that it would be cool to take all the public domain e-books and create audio versions for them.
So I did it... kind-of.<p>It would cost an immense amount of money to generate all the audio right away (OpenAI TTS costs approximately $0.84/hour of audio; 11labs, for comparison, is 10 times more expensive).
So, I took a more gradual approach.<p>I took all the metadata from the Project Gutenberg catalog (it's about 70GB of dirty XML), cleaned it, put it into my database, and created a browsable catalog.
When the first user visits a book page on Listenly, I download the full text of the book, save it in my cloud storage, and calculate the price for audio generation based on the book's length. Then, if the user decides to purchase it, we generate the audio.<p>I know it’s not perfect.<p>I've burned out a couple of times already while doing it.<p>But still, I need to show it to the world. And I’ll be glad to hear your feedback.<p>Peace.
Show HN: I built a Jeopardy game maker with buzzer support
Sometime in early 2022, my wife and I started watching Jeopardy! regularly, almost by accident. Inspired, I thought it would be fun to create and host my own games with family and friends.<p>By September 2022, I debuted Buzzinga at a family reunion. Back then, it was just a website running locally on my MacBook. It was a total blast, and I knew this was something the world should enjoy too.<p>I launched Buzzinga.io in December 2023 and have been rolling out regular updates for our 2000+ users ever since.<p>Features:<p>- Built-in buzzer support (phones and physical buzzers)
- Automatic scorekeeping
- User-friendly host controls
- Highly customizable
- Supports multiple clue types: text, image, audio, and video<p>The site does not require sign up to play around with, only to create your own games.
Show HN: I built a Jeopardy game maker with buzzer support
Sometime in early 2022, my wife and I started watching Jeopardy! regularly, almost by accident. Inspired, I thought it would be fun to create and host my own games with family and friends.<p>By September 2022, I debuted Buzzinga at a family reunion. Back then, it was just a website running locally on my MacBook. It was a total blast, and I knew this was something the world should enjoy too.<p>I launched Buzzinga.io in December 2023 and have been rolling out regular updates for our 2000+ users ever since.<p>Features:<p>- Built-in buzzer support (phones and physical buzzers)
- Automatic scorekeeping
- User-friendly host controls
- Highly customizable
- Supports multiple clue types: text, image, audio, and video<p>The site does not require sign up to play around with, only to create your own games.
Show HN: I built a Jeopardy game maker with buzzer support
Sometime in early 2022, my wife and I started watching Jeopardy! regularly, almost by accident. Inspired, I thought it would be fun to create and host my own games with family and friends.<p>By September 2022, I debuted Buzzinga at a family reunion. Back then, it was just a website running locally on my MacBook. It was a total blast, and I knew this was something the world should enjoy too.<p>I launched Buzzinga.io in December 2023 and have been rolling out regular updates for our 2000+ users ever since.<p>Features:<p>- Built-in buzzer support (phones and physical buzzers)
- Automatic scorekeeping
- User-friendly host controls
- Highly customizable
- Supports multiple clue types: text, image, audio, and video<p>The site does not require sign up to play around with, only to create your own games.
Show HN: Create Music with R
Show HN: Create Music with R
Show HN: I made a drag and drop CSS grid generator
Show HN: I made a drag and drop CSS grid generator
Show HN: I made a drag and drop CSS grid generator
Show HN: Resurrecting a dead Dune RTS game
Show HN: Resurrecting a dead Dune RTS game
Show HN: Resurrecting a dead Dune RTS game
Show HN: Resurrecting a dead Dune RTS game
Show HN: 30ms latency screen sharing in Rust
Show HN: 30ms latency screen sharing in Rust
Show HN: 30ms latency screen sharing in Rust