Re:Show HN: Hacker News in Slow Italian - AI-generated podca...
by hugs on Thursday May 25, 2023 @06:12PM
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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!
Re:Show HN: Hacker News in Slow Italian - AI-generated podca...
by lakySK on Thursday May 25, 2023 @06:17PM
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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?
Re:Show HN: Hacker News in Slow Italian - AI-generated podca...
by hugs on Thursday May 25, 2023 @06:30PM
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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!
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.