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Diyana 5 days ago
I am like "I need someone to read this for me on audio... Or I'm gonna have to record myself reading it for others".... Just recorded myself reading chapter one (not without a couple hickups, and mostly in the way that helps my own comprehension). If I could figure out where to upload you can listen and let me know if I should record reading the rest. This is material highly relevant to what I am investigating and building... I'm adding another bridge to the equation @Max and would love to connect soon and share. I expect it to be an evolving body of work and protective sanctuary for all looking to participate in building the parallel societies. Here's a screenshot of a lil section of the document I just completed working on yesterday. View quoted note → image
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Max max@towardsliberty.com 5 days ago
You can just upload a mp3 / wav / ogg and @Castr.Me will automatically turn it into a podcast. I was planning to do the audio book a bit later, this isn't the final version yet, would be happy to hear yours tho!
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Diyana 5 days ago
Hah, thanks for the tip. But I am not sure I am seeing how to upload on castr.me. is it in an app form I should first download? The web version just asked for my npub. Gosh, haha, now I am feeling pretty self conscious... My recording is raw and unpolished of a text I am reading for the first time but will share. It depends on when you are recording it I will either wait for your audio or just keep reading. If I am not listening to information often reading it outloud strengthens my comprehension. That obviously requires more energy and time on my end since I need to be stationery vs. driving, walking and getting other stuff done. :)
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Diyana 5 days ago
No, I don't think I can streight up upload an Audio file there. I think it needs to go through a podcast syndicator or something first.
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Max max@towardsliberty.com 5 days ago
It just fetches any profile and displays all the uploaded audio or video files as a podcast feed. So just post on primal or whatever client and it'll automagically work.
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Max max@towardsliberty.com 5 days ago
Yeah, doing "actually good" audio book recordings is a pain in the ass... So no pressure! I'll probably get to a point where I'll do it in half a year. Idk, maybe earlier if enough people bug me about it. Oh, I also made a text to speech friendly PDF that might work for you, get it at towardsliberty.com/pop
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Diyana 5 days ago
OMG 🤣 def not gonna wanna wait half a year... Would love to try the text to speech but I don't know how to make that work. You are the grapheneos expert... It seems that much of what's available on Android is not automatically on graphene. Like I can't even speech to text text messages. (I get voice input is unavailable right now when I try) And I don't see any functions in the text to speech pdf file of yours.
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Max max@towardsliberty.com 5 days ago
On zapstore you can get Sherpa, that's a text to speech engine, and voca, that's a reader app that uses the engine. Voca is very early development so its not yet great. There is @voice app too, but that's closed source and you need to install Aurora Store to get it.
SherpaTTS - Zapstore
SherpaTTS is an Android Text-to-Speech engine based on Next-gen Kaldi using Piper or Coqui voices. Upon launching the app for the first time, it ...
Voca - Zapstore
A simple text-to-speech app that lets you listen to text instead of reading it. Features include dark mode, text sharing from other apps, and custo...
 The TTS PDF is just a regular PDF but without page numbers and page titles so it makes listening better.
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Diyana 5 days ago
Thanks for sharing these. I downloaded both on the zapstore but I don't seem to be able to locate Voca. Or is it integrated into Sherpa once downloaded? How do I utilize them to have your tts read?
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Max max@towardsliberty.com 5 days ago
In Sherpa you can download en_GB-alba-medium that's a decent quality and fast model. Not sure why you don't see voca in zapstore, you can get it here directly.
Gitea
voca
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Diyana 5 days ago
Thank you. I had found it in zapstore but when I downloaded it (I did twice) I could not find it amongst my apps in my phone. But this worked. This would be a dream if this works. I have been dreaming of tts for so long. But now that I have loaded your book nothing happens when I press play. Is that what you meant by is not great yet? image
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Diyana 4 days ago
I also just installed aurora store. Which of the voice apps do you recommend? Is it Voice Access from Google LLC?
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