Feedback on this specific audio narration, and the feature in general: (I’ve also submitted this via the Feedback button.)
At 0:44, there’s a line “That’s the end of that list”, which is not in the written text. Maybe there’s some logic here which assumes that a colon is followed by a bunch of bullet points? In this case, there was no list (zero bullet points), and so the line “That’s the end of that list” makes no sense. And besides, there never was a corresponding preceding line à la “Here’s a list of bullet points”.
At 0:52, there’s a narration line “Here’s a list of bullet points. Podcast feeds.”. Here, there is a list of bullet points, but the narration line is inserted before the subheading of “Podcast feeds”, rather than where it’s supposed to be in the audio, namely afterwards.
At 1:19, the narration says “will continue narrating selected curated posts for now.”, but the text says “will continue narrating most curated posts for now.”. Presumably the text has been edited after the audio was generated. If the audio can get out of sync with the text, that’s a conundrum that has to be solved somehow. Generating new audio for every edit is presumably prohibitively expensive. Although this would by no means be sufficient, the audio must at least indicate somehow that it’s out of date with the post. But then we’re still left with the problem where you might listen to the audio of an essay which has since been edited to say “I’ve changed my mind; everything I said here is wrong”.
The audio reflecting updates to the text is relatively easily fixed, and that feature is in the pipeline (though for now user reports are helpful for this.)
There’s some fairly complex logic we use for lists — trying to prevent having too many repetitive audio notes, but also keeping those notes when they’re helpful. We’re still experimenting with it, so thanks for pointing out those formatting issues!
Feedback on this specific audio narration, and the feature in general: (I’ve also submitted this via the Feedback button.)
At 0:44, there’s a line “That’s the end of that list”, which is not in the written text. Maybe there’s some logic here which assumes that a colon is followed by a bunch of bullet points? In this case, there was no list (zero bullet points), and so the line “That’s the end of that list” makes no sense. And besides, there never was a corresponding preceding line à la “Here’s a list of bullet points”.
At 0:52, there’s a narration line “Here’s a list of bullet points. Podcast feeds.”. Here, there is a list of bullet points, but the narration line is inserted before the subheading of “Podcast feeds”, rather than where it’s supposed to be in the audio, namely afterwards.
At 1:19, the narration says “will continue narrating selected curated posts for now.”, but the text says “will continue narrating most curated posts for now.”. Presumably the text has been edited after the audio was generated. If the audio can get out of sync with the text, that’s a conundrum that has to be solved somehow. Generating new audio for every edit is presumably prohibitively expensive. Although this would by no means be sufficient, the audio must at least indicate somehow that it’s out of date with the post. But then we’re still left with the problem where you might listen to the audio of an essay which has since been edited to say “I’ve changed my mind; everything I said here is wrong”.
Thanks for the feedback!
The audio reflecting updates to the text is relatively easily fixed, and that feature is in the pipeline (though for now user reports are helpful for this.)
There’s some fairly complex logic we use for lists — trying to prevent having too many repetitive audio notes, but also keeping those notes when they’re helpful. We’re still experimenting with it, so thanks for pointing out those formatting issues!