Show HN: Hacker News in Slow Italian - AI-generated podcast (with code)

Re:Show HN: Hacker News in Slow Italian - AI-generated podca... by hugs on Thursday May 25, 2023 @05:59PM (#36076835)

I would love this for French. How do you want to handle modifying the code for other languages on GitHub? A new separate project fork per language, or a pull request to the current one? Slightly problematic that "Italian" is in the top level project name if it's going to be configurable for other languages.

Also, add a tip jar somewhere so we can chip in!

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Re:Show HN: Hacker News in Slow Italian - AI-generated podca... by loloquwowndueo on Thursday May 25, 2023 @06:41PM (#36077341)

In the meanwhile, try this to train your ear and practice French with current news using easy vocabulary (they do speak very clearly, worked wonders for me when I was learning).

https://francaisfacile.rfi.fr/fr/podcasts/journal-en-françai...

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Re:Show HN: Hacker News in Slow Italian - AI-generated podca... by hugs on Thursday May 25, 2023 @06:47PM (#36077399)

I do that already and love it. :) But would like to listen to more things in French besides updates on foreign wars and elections.

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Re:Show HN: Hacker News in Slow Italian - AI-generated podca... by vonnik on Thursday May 25, 2023 @11:10PM (#36079333)

I learned French in large part by listening to the radio. Highly recommend France Culture when you are ready for it. It’s the radio 4 of France:

https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture

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Re:Show HN: Hacker News in Slow Italian - AI-generated podca... by attentive on Friday May 26, 2023 @05:28AM (#36081939)

try https://frenchspin.fr/category/le-rdv-tech/ for tech news

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Re:Show HN: Hacker News in Slow Italian - AI-generated podca... by hugs on Friday May 26, 2023 @08:52AM (#36083387)

Merci !

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Re:Show HN: Hacker News in Slow Italian - AI-generated podca... by lakySK on Thursday May 25, 2023 @06:04PM (#36076890)

Good question! Haven't thought that far ahead :D

I'd be happy to rebrand it if there's interest. The main issue is that generating an episode is around $3 roughly (~$1 on GPT4 APU, ~$2 on text-to-speech). So doing a daily episode in multiple languages might be a bit costly.

But if there's enough interest, I might be happy to fund it to get it going for a bit and see how it ends.

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Re:Show HN: Hacker News in Slow Italian - AI-generated podca... by hugs on Thursday May 25, 2023 @06:12PM (#36076996)

For the free sample, maybe run it once a week on Sunday? (But gate the daily feed behind a paywall?)

Either way, I'd be happy to fund a few weeks of a French version right now!

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Re:Show HN: Hacker News in Slow Italian - AI-generated podca... by lakySK on Thursday May 25, 2023 @06:17PM (#36077058)

Those are not bad ideas and suggestions at all! Thanks!

Let me see if I can get a French episode generated for you today or tomorrow and if you like it, I'm happy to send some more your way :)

What is your level of French?

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Re:Show HN: Hacker News in Slow Italian - AI-generated podca... by hugs on Thursday May 25, 2023 @06:30PM (#36077212)

I'm A1 in French and got there primarily with Duolingo, a little Pimsleur... and lots of beginner audiobooks. Also a fan of RFI's "Easy French Newspaper" daily podcast, but yeah, it would be so much more interesting to have a tech-focused version of the concept.

On that note, another suggestion: Offering a mobile-friendly readable transcript to go along with a the audio. (RFI does this.) Reading along with the the audio is my preferred way to "listen" to French audiobooks.

Also, presenting the transcript in a readable form is another way to gate content behind a log in and/or upsell. Of course, yeah, would rather it all be free, but your costs are real!

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