Cool! Certainly that’s among the better ones I’ve heard. (A couple hiccups here and there overall pretty solid)
note: still off the cuff and haven’t checked in with other site devs, this is in the “curious how this might work” stage.
What’s the process for that like? Right now is it just software running on your computer? How long does it take to render the sound? How resource intensive is it? Is there or could there be a webserver that our site could easily communicate with when new posts appear (or maybe when posts get over a certain karma, or moved to frontpage or curated)
Thanks! The audio was rendered via a narration web service I wrote for the backend of my project. It took 12 seconds to narrate and generate metadata (used to highlight the word or sentence that’s being spoken).
I’d be happy to set something up such that you could post the contents of a new post to a webhook, and it could respond with embed code immediately. Placing the embed code e.g. under the post title would load a small widget you could play the audio from.
It’s also possible to tune the narration quality specifically for LessWrong so it uses the proper lexicon and more natural emphasis :)
Cool! Certainly that’s among the better ones I’ve heard. (A couple hiccups here and there overall pretty solid)
note: still off the cuff and haven’t checked in with other site devs, this is in the “curious how this might work” stage.
What’s the process for that like? Right now is it just software running on your computer? How long does it take to render the sound? How resource intensive is it? Is there or could there be a webserver that our site could easily communicate with when new posts appear (or maybe when posts get over a certain karma, or moved to frontpage or curated)
Thanks! The audio was rendered via a narration web service I wrote for the backend of my project. It took 12 seconds to narrate and generate metadata (used to highlight the word or sentence that’s being spoken).
I’d be happy to set something up such that you could post the contents of a new post to a webhook, and it could respond with embed code immediately. Placing the embed code e.g. under the post title would load a small widget you could play the audio from.
It’s also possible to tune the narration quality specifically for LessWrong so it uses the proper lexicon and more natural emphasis :)
Please please please make this happen!